Urban VPN Proxy for Chrome

In this day and age, the reasons for not using a VPN are very few, and they are mostly of a monetary nature. If free and private browsing is the right of every user, why aren't all VPN services free for everyone? The world doesn't work like that, but it's fun to think about it.

Free VPNs exist, but they usually come with a catch. What that catch is for Urban VPN for Chrome, I haven't yet found out. But it's worth noting that it's easy to install, works as intended, and It's got a surprisingly fast speed, as well as some amenities to boot, such as a built-in ad-blocker.

Testing the speeds brought forth quite the surprise, as they seemed far removed from what you'd normally see on a free VPN — in a good way, of course. During the testing, the speeds averaged in the lower 300Mbps range for downloads, and just shy of 200Mbps for uploads. Impressive, all things considered.

As such, you should have no problem streaming high bitrate content, so your usual Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, and other such video streaming platforms shouldn't run into any buffering problems or anything of the sort. The supported countries are plentiful, too, so bypassing geo-blocking will be easier.

The extension comes bundled with an ad-blocker, which works decently well to take care of advertisements. It may not offer the versatility of a full-blown ad-blocker, but it does the job.

An anti-mining option is also readily available, and it essentially works to stop some websites using your computer's resources for mining. I'm still doubtful about its efficiency, but you can enable or disable it anytime.

Urban VPN for Chrome for sure looks like an attractive proposition: it's free, the speeds are nice, and there's no bandwidth cap. What the caveat for all of those things is, it's tough to know: from my research, it looks as though the developer is not very transparent about how your privacy is handled.