General Discussion

The identical AI harvesting functionality appears in seven other extensions from the same publisher, across both Chrome and Edge:

Chrome Web Store:

Urban VPN Proxy - 6,000,000 users
1ClickVPN Proxy - 600,000 users
Urban Browser Guard - 40,000 users
Urban Ad Blocker - 10,000 users

Microsoft Edge Add-ons:

Urban VPN Proxy - 1,323,622 users
1ClickVPN Proxy - 36,459 users
Urban Browser Guard - 12,624 users
Urban Ad Blocker - 6,476 users

Total affected users: Over 8 million.

The extensions span different product categories, a VPN, an ad blocker, a "browser guard" security tool, but share the same surveillance backend. Users installing an ad blocker have no reason to expect their Claude conversations are being harvested.

All of these extensions carry "Featured" badges from their respective stores, except Urban Ad Blocker for Edge. These badges signal to users that the extensions have been reviewed and meet platform quality standards. For many users, a Featured badge is the difference between installing an extension and passing it by - it's an implicit endorsement from Google and Microsoft.