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Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats - Stanley - Dec 25, 2025
Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats
A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity.
The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Chrome
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/featured-chrome-browser-extension.html
RE: Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats - Aeowulf - Dec 25, 2025
If its free... you are the product.
RE: Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats - Jamika - Dec 26, 2025
Saw it several times… it’s a good thing I haven’t downloaded it yet.
RE: Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats - hussain.spams - Dec 26, 2025
Other extensions from Urban Cyber Security Inc. showed similar behavior:
Urban Browser Guard
Urban Ad Blocker
1ClickVPN Proxy
RE: Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats - Tartan1 - Dec 26, 2025
(Dec 25, 2025 05:41 AM)Aeowulf Wrote: If its free... you are the product.
100% facts