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Urban Browser Guard

by Urban Cyber Security INC · Privacy & Security
FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

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

Users
300K
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.5 / 5
+0.02 in 30 days
Ratings
697
+9 in 30 days
Store rank
#934
#852 among extensions
Version
8.2.3
updated 23 Sep 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
10K155K300KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 300,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
100398697Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 697 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Urban Browser Guard

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.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0+0.02
30 days0+0.0%+9+0.02
6 months+200K+200.0%+103−0.01
1 year+260K+650.0%+151−0.05

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Urban Browser Guard appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
extension guard#20
browser#6+1
chrome browser#12+27
browser settings#25+26
malware#27−1
browsing#30+14
browser extension#650
data privacy#85new
protect#92−8

Version history

54 versions recorded
8.2.323 Sep 2026
8.2.221 Aug 2026
8.2.16 Aug 2026
8.2.010 Jul 2026
8.1.224 Jun 2026
8.1.129 May 2026
8.1.04 May 2026
8.0.020 Apr 2026

Details

Category
Privacy & Security
First seen
3 Jul 2020
Size
2.3 MB
Languages
de, en, id, nl, tr, es, fr, pt-BR
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
urban-vpn.com
Extension ID
almalgbpmcfpdaopimbdchdliminoign

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 4, likelihood 0
Permissions
tabswebNavigationwebRequestmanagementalarmsstoragescriptingbrowsingDatadeclarativeNetRequest
Site 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.icohttps://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/*and 12 more
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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