Urban Shield
Urban Shield is a Wi-Fi surfing protection & auto caching, and history cleaner extension for your browser.
Urban Shield: Wi-Fi Surfing Protection & Privacy
"Urban Shield" is a comprehensive Firefox extension designed to enhance your online security by blocking malicious websites and ads, protecting your digital fingerprints, and cleaning your browsing history. It offers mining site alerts, cache clearing features, and blocks analytics requests, ensuring your online activities remain private and secure. Easily install it to strengthen your browser's protection without affecting performance or bandwidth.
Add-on stats
Manifest V3
Weekly download count: 1,981
Firefox on Android: No
Permissions:
- webRequestBlocking
- tabs
- webNavigation
- webRequest
- management
- alarms
- storage
- scripting
- browsingData
- declarativeNetRequest
Host permissions:
- https://*.bugsnag.com/*
- https://*.urban-vpn.com/*
- https://www.google-analytics.com/*
- https://ssl.google-analytics.com/*
- https://google-analytics.com/
- https://www.google.com/favicon.ico
- https://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico
- <all_urls>
- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/urban-shield/*
- https://www.urban-vpn.com/thank-you-ext-shield/* See more
Size: 3.76M
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description: See detailed description
Ranking
Other platforms
Not available on Android
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Free to use
- Reasonably fast performance
- Works as expected in many cases
- Excellent functionality for basic needs
Cons
- Issues with connectivity
- Concerns about data privacy and data selling
- May cause functionality issues with certain websites
Most mentioned
- Privacy concerns regarding data collection
- Functionality issues affecting certain websites
- Basic functionality and performance
User reviews
не коннектиться
by Max, 2025-02-24
So basically their idea of a VPN is "We collect all of your data, including private data, and sell it to whomever asks". Giving a whole new meaning to the concept of "private"
by Firefox user 15397069, 2025-02-19
all ok
by edis, 2024-08-13
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Urban Shield requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Urban Shield. Use it at your own risk.
Risk likelihood analysis details
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