Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

Urban VPN is a particularly bad offender. It intercepts all your conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI bots (glad I don’t use any), and sends them to the VPN vendor for resale. This is nuts.

    • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There are lots of people who know enough to use a VPN, but don’t know enough to understand the risks of a free one. They haven’t done anything wrong and they shouldn’t be preyed upon.