Is Free VPN & Proxy For Chrome - VPNLY safe?
VPNLY collects users' real IP and location, sends them to an undisclosed domain, and fetches a Telegraph page over HTTP on every proxy connection.
Each time the popup opens or the VPN connects, the extension sends the user's real IP, city, and country code to gapi.268222219.xyz — a domain not disclosed as belonging to vpnly.com. The extension also bundles hardcoded plaintext proxy credentials shared across all users, and on every proxy connection it fetches a page from the public Telegraph platform over unencrypted HTTP, a pattern consistent with a remote dead-drop check-in.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itFREE VPN UNLIMITED AG - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
FREE VPN UNLIMITED AG - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 7k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 4 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.2.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls> and 2 more
Route all of your browsing through a server of its choosing
proxy
Store data in your browser
storage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed VPNLY contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- api.telegra.ph
VPNLY sends data to api.telegra.ph. 5 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- freeruproxy.ink
VPNLY sends data to freeruproxy.ink. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- gapi.268222219.xyz
VPNLY sends data to gapi.268222219.xyz. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.