Is Proxy SwitchyOmega safe?

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Proxy SwitchyOmega is critical risk. We observed that every time you navigate to a web page, Proxy SwitchyOmega V3 sends the full URL you visited, the URL you came from, a timestamp, and a persistent tracking identifier to analytics.editcookie.com. The data is batched and flushed either when 10 entries accumulate or every 60 seconds. This behavior fires on every HTTP or HTTPS page load regardless of proxy configuration, and was confirmed in dynamic analysis by capturing four POST requests containing visited URLs from facebook.com and google.com. On first run, Proxy SwitchyOmega V3 generates a UUID and stores it in chrome.storage.sync under the key 'user_id'. Because chrome.storage.sync ties to your Google account, this identifier follows you across all devices where you use Chrome signed into the same account. The UUID is included in every browsing-data POST to analytics.editcookie.com, enabling the server to link all your page visits — past and future — to a single persistent profile. Our dynamic analysis confirmed the UUID '728c6b82b2144fee87fc75fc9ca574bb' was present in chrome.storage.sync from startup and appeared in all four captured POST requests.

Is Proxy SwitchyOmega (V3) safe?

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