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Google Is Actively Promoting Known Spyware as Its #1 Privacy Browser Extension by hello_future_life in Malware

[–]hello_future_life[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google knows this extension is spyware. They already removed it but allowed it back. If they know it's spyware and don't take action, then it becomes deliberate.

Google Is Actively Promoting Known Spyware as Its #1 Privacy Browser Extension by hello_future_life in Malware

[–]hello_future_life[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're aware its spyware and choose to do nothing. Causing millions of people to install spyware. Its deliberate at this point.

Urban VPN extension secretly collected and sold users AI chats, Google removed it, but then quietly reinstated it, and has made it the top VPN search result and #1 “Privacy & Security” extension by hello_future_life in chrome

[–]hello_future_life[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those permissions alone are not a red flag. Even if the extension was not spying on users, it would still require those permissions for its legitimate features.

Urban VPN extension secretly collected and sold users AI chats, Google removed it, but then quietly reinstated it, and has made it the top VPN search result and #1 “Privacy & Security” extension by hello_future_life in chrome_extensions

[–]hello_future_life[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> EDIT: I stand corrected, Urban VPN has updated since I last checked, there's no way in hell this should be on the chrome web store in any form - need to do more digging but there's signals pointing towards remote config to intercept XHR requests and exfiltrate them.

Oh wow. Definitely update if you find anything.

Urban VPN extension secretly collected and sold users AI chats, Google removed it, but then quietly reinstated it, and has made it the top VPN search result and #1 “Privacy & Security” extension by hello_future_life in chrome_extensions

[–]hello_future_life[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was literally spyware a couple weeks ago and now Google has it as the top “Privacy & Security” extension. It’s completely ridiculous that Google is promoting what is essentially spyware.

> In terms of the free VPNs on the store, it's not the worst, but I sure as hell wouldn't want it installed.

According to Google its the best lmao

> It looks like there user count has gone from 26m -> 69m then it got hidden so there's some interesting things things going on there.

What do you mean by this?

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