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8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions (www.koi.ai)

submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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.

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[–] Kevlar21@piefed.social 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’ve always been told to beware of “free” VPNs for reasons like this

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 15 points 3 days ago

If the free VPN provides an OpenVPN / Wireguard configuration, then you're mostly safe from this particular attack. Most sites use TLS, so the VPN provider won't be able to see shit.

In this particular case, it's a browser extension, which is actually able to access the contents of visited webpages.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Yup, as the old adage says: "if the service is free, you are the product."