Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

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.

  • Dumhuvud@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.