Urban Browser Guard

Name: Urban Browser Guard
Rating: 4.48 (652 reviews)
Author: Urban VPN

Urban Browser Guard safeguards your online privacy and blocks harmful content, including malicious websites and intrusive ads

As of June 2026, Urban Browser Guard has 300,000 users and a 4.48/5 rating from 652 reviews in the Privacy & Security category.

Urban VPN Privacy & Security★ Featured

Chrome Web Store ↗.crx

Users+200.0%

300.0K

300,000

Rating−1.3%

4.48

652 reviews

Reviews+12.2%

652

Version

8.1.1

Manifest V3

90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension gained 200.0K users, 1 version update, changed permissions.

History

20 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 1, 2026	100.0K	4.54	581	7.4.8
Apr 8, 2026	100.0K	4.54	582	7.4.8
Apr 16, 2026	100.0K	4.54	584	7.4.8
Apr 20, 2026	100.0K	4.53	592	7.4.9
Apr 23, 2026	100.0K	4.53	594	7.4.9
Apr 26, 2026	200.0K	4.53	599	8.0.0
Apr 29, 2026	200.0K	4.53	601	8.0.0
May 5, 2026	200.0K	4.53	601	8.0.0
May 8, 2026	200.0K	4.52	607	8.1.0
May 11, 2026	200.0K	4.52	609	8.1.0
May 17, 2026	200.0K	4.51	613	8.1.0
May 23, 2026	200.0K	4.51	615	8.1.0
May 25, 2026	200.0K	4.50	617	8.1.0
May 28, 2026	200.0K	4.49	619	8.1.0
May 31, 2026	200.0K	4.50	622	8.1.0
Jun 3, 2026	200.0K	4.49	628	8.1.1
Jun 6, 2026	200.0K	4.49	631	8.1.1
Jun 11, 2026	200.0K	4.48	634	8.1.1
Jun 15, 2026	200.0K	4.49	637	8.1.1
Jun 22, 2026	200.0K	4.48	642	8.1.1
Now	300.0K	4.48	652	8.1.1

Changelog

Apr 23, 2026

short_description

Urban Browser Guard adds a security layer that blocks access to malicious websites and filters annoying ads & unwanted content

Urban Browser Guard safeguards your online privacy and blocks harmful content, including malicious websites and intrusive ads

Apr 23, 2026

host_permissions

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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://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/urban-shield/almalgbpmcfpdaopimbdchdliminoign/reviews/*, https://www.urban-vpn.com/thank-you-ext-shield/*, https://www.urban-vpn.com/uninstall-ext-shield/*, https://authentication.urban-vpn.com/*, https://guardrail.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://anti-mining-protection-toolbar.urban-vpn.com/api/rest/v2/*, https://geo.geosurf.io/*, https://authentication.urban-vpn.com/*, https://config-toolbar.urban-vpn.com/rest/v3/configs/extensions/urban-shield/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://authentication.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/redirect/*

Permissions & access

Permissions: tabswebNavigationwebRequestmanagementalarmsstoragescriptingbrowsingDatadeclarativeNetRequest
Host access: 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://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/urban-shield/almalgbpmcfpdaopimbdchdliminoign/reviews/*, https://www.urban-vpn.com/thank-you-ext-shield/*, https://www.urban-vpn.com/uninstall-ext-shield/*, https://authentication.urban-vpn.com/*, https://guardrail.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://anti-mining-protection-toolbar.urban-vpn.com/api/rest/v2/*, https://geo.geosurf.io/*, https://authentication.urban-vpn.com/*, https://config-toolbar.urban-vpn.com/rest/v3/configs/extensions/urban-shield/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://authentication.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/*, https://api-pro.urban-vpn.com/rest/v1/redirect/*

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About

Urban Browser Guard Chrome extension adds a security layer that blocks access to malicious websites while filtering out annoying ads and other unwanted content.

Urban Browser Guard protects your digital fingerprints from leaking into the wrong hands and prevents identity theft, malware ads, and phishing attempts, whether you’re in a public place or at home.

What does Urban Browser Guard do?

⛏️ Mining Site Alerts: Receive alerts about cryptocurrency mining websites that could compromise your device's performance and security.

🧹 Clear Cache and History: Clear your browser cache and history, ensuring your data stays private.

🚫 Block Analytics Requests: Easily block analytics requests that track your online behavior.

🛡️ Advance browser protection: Blocking access to malicious sites and ads, anti phishing, and improving secure browsing and private internet security.

🆕🤖 Chat AI Anonymizer - Personal data protection (Optional Feature): When enabled and approved, Urban Browser Guard warns you before sending AI chat messages that may contain personal information (such as names, phone numbers, ID numbers, passport details, SSN, TIN, or MAC addresses). Detection backend based is analyzed in a de-identified and anonymized manner and is available only to users who opt in.

When using the optional Advance browser protection features, you enjoy anti-phishing, anti-malware, blocking access to malicious sites and blocking malicious ads for your browsing.

To use these safe browsing and AI chat protection features, subject to your acceptance of the prominent disclosures provided for each, we will process browsing information. We further encourage you to review our privacy policy before installing the Urban browser guard extension, available here: Privacy Policy https://www.urban-vpn.com/about-us/privacy-policy-urban-browser-guard/

This extension is an all-in-one browser protection solution. You don't need to download additional software → click "Add to Chrome" to install the extension, and you're set to browse freely.

Urban Browser Guard is a comprehensive Chrome browser extension for securing your connection. It will not slow your browser’s performance and will not affect bandwidth.

What’s new?

🆕🤖 Chat AI Anonymizer - Personal data protection (Optional Feature):

⚡Browser protection updates and fixes.

⚙️ UI/UX and settings updates.

🐞 Bug fixes.

Technical

Version: 8.1.1
Manifest: V3
Size: 2.24MiB
Min Chrome: 109.0
Languages: 11
Featured: Yes

Metadata

ID: almalgbpmcfpdaopimbdchdliminoign
Developer ID: ub69a65906aceacefea81813b079f7c52
Developer Email: [email protected]
Created: Oct 13, 2019
Last Updated (Store): May 29, 2026
Last Scraped: Jun 22, 2026
Website: —
Support URL: —
Privacy Policy: https://www.urban-vpn.com/about-us/privacy-policy-urban-browser-guard/