Is Snap VPN safe?
Snap VPN routes your browsing through a plain, unencrypted proxy server instead of an encrypted VPN tunnel.
When you connect, Snap VPN fetches a list of candidate servers from its own backend and configures Chrome to send all of your traffic (except calls back to that backend) through a vendor-selected server using Chrome's fixed_servers proxy mode. No proxy scheme or encryption is specified, so the connection between your browser and that server is a plain, unauthenticated proxy relay rather than an encrypted tunnel like WireGuard or OpenVPN. Every site you visit is routed through this vendor-selected server in the clear.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.3.13. 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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Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
Route all of your browsing through a server of its choosing
proxy
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Snap VPN 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.nucleusvpn.com
Snap VPN sends data to api.nucleusvpn.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.