Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats
This is pretty scary : Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok (xAI), Meta AI. For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated “executor” script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The harvesting is enabled by default through hardcoded flags in the extension’s configuration. There is no user-facing toggle to disable this. The only way to stop the data collection is to uninstall the extension entirely. [...] The data collection operates independently of the VPN functionality. Whether the VPN is connected or not, the harvesting runs continuously in the background. [...]