Urban VPN is a particularly bad offender. It intercepts all your conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI bots (glad I don’t use any), and sends them to the VPN vendor for resale. This is nuts.
Urban VPN is a particularly bad offender. It intercepts all your conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI bots (glad I don’t use any), and sends them to the VPN vendor for resale. This is nuts.
I’ve always been told to beware of “free” VPNs for reasons like this
If the free VPN provides an OpenVPN / Wireguard configuration, then you’re mostly safe from this particular attack. Most sites use TLS, so the VPN provider won’t be able to see shit.
In this particular case, it’s a browser extension, which is actually able to access the contents of visited webpages.
Yup, as the old adage says: “if the service is free, you are the product.”