This seems a bit pointless to me.

If your aim is to hide your traffic from third-party networks you might be on (free wifi, school, hotels, etc) then a yearly VPN subscription is almost certainly cheaper than the cheapest DigitalOcean droplet. If you get a good provider (I use PIA but am not affiliated with them) then you get unlimited traffic, multiple clients, endpoints all over the world, tech support, all without having to setup and administer the server yourself.

If your aim is to disassociate traffic with yourself, your DigitalOcean IP will be tied back to you anyway.

If your aim is to stop government snooping, DigitalOcean is hosted in the USA so you may as well just send the NSA your browsing history.