Is Urban Shield VPN safe?
Urban Shield VPN lets any clicked webpage link add and select a custom DNS server for the VPN connection.
Urban Shield VPN injects a content script into every page that watches for clicked vpnlightningext: links. When one is clicked, the page-provided DNS name and address are saved as a custom DNS server, selected immediately, and the selected DNS address is sent over the extension's VPN websocket.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.2. 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>
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
Change your browser's privacy and security settings
privacy
Route all of your browsing through a server of its choosing
proxy
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Urban Shield 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.
- urbanshieldvpn.com
Urban Shield VPN sends data to urbanshieldvpn.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.