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I downloaded the Urban VPN Proxy chrome extension using https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/ and grepped the source code.
At no point is window.fetch reassigned with their own function. There is no "window.fetch" anywhere in their code.
Also the variables
sendClaudeMesages, etc in their first screenshot only appear there and are not used anywhere else in the code. Whatever those config variables are for, they don't do anything.The rest of their code screenshots are legit (notice the legit ones have a smaller font?) but without window.fetch the whole thing can't do what they say it does.
Moreover, large chunks of that article is written with a LLM (it's koi.ai so I shouldn't be surprised) and ends with a pitch for their services.
This doesn't look right.
When a company writes a blog post, 95% of the time it's intended to juice their SEO rankings, rage-bait to go viral and boost their social media profile, or an ad disguised as an article. Be very skeptical of company blogs.
Obviously tho, any free VPN is going to monitor your traffic and sell your data, don't use them. I'm sure Urban VPN is sketchy as hell the point is koi.ai is trying to make money by polluting our information space.