Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats
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Urban VPN Proxy, a Chrome extension with six million users and Google's "Featured" badge, has been secretly harvesting every conversation users have with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini since July 2025. The extension intercepts prompts, responses, and session data through injected JavaScript code, sending everything to remote servers owned by parent company BIScience, which sells this information to advertisers and business partners for commercial use.
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