Is PrivateVPN safe?
PrivateVPN stores remembered login credentials with reversible encryption using a hardcoded key.
When remember-me is enabled, PrivateVPN saves the login email and password-derived token in Chrome extension storage after encrypting them with an AES passphrase included in the bundle. The background script decrypts the saved token and alias from storage to provide proxy authentication credentials.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itPrivateVPN - no other listings under this identity
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.3. 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
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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
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed PrivateVPN 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.
- connect.pvdatanet.com
PrivateVPN sends data to connect.pvdatanet.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.