> Urban VPN is operated by Urban Cyber Security Inc., which is affiliated with BiScience (B.I Science (2009) Ltd.), a data broker company.

> This company has been on researchers' radar before. Security researchers Wladimir Palant and John Tuckner at Secure Annex have previously documented BiScience's data collection practices. Their research established that:

> BiScience collects clickstream data (browsing history) from millions of users Data is tied to persistent device identifiers, enabling re-identification The company provides an SDK to third-party extension developers to collect and sell user data

> BiScience sells this data through products like AdClarity and Clickstream OS

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

Hmm.

> They look really legitimate on the outside

Hmm, what, no.

We have a data collection company, thriving financially on lack of privacy protections, indiscriminant collection and collating of data, connected to eight data siphoning "Violate Privacy Network" apps.

And those apps are free... Which is seriously default sketchy if you can't otherwise identify some obviously noble incentives to offer free services/candy to strangers.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three (or eight) times is enemy action.

The only thing that could possibly make this look any worse is discovering a connection to Facebook.

Israeli company. No doubt some Mossad front.