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

By: Urban VPN
Users: 651
-29
Rating: 4.51
(51)
Version: 7.1.0 (Last updated: 2024-11-19)
Creation date: 2019-10-10
Weekly download count: 58
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
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: 1.95M

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Add-on summary

Urban Browser Guard Firefox 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?

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

⛏️ 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.

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

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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
  • Suitable for privacy in many cases
Cons
  • May cause some sites to work incorrectly
  • Not a complete solution for security or illegal activities
Most mentioned
  • Privacy
  • Free
  • Potential issues with website functionality
User reviews
all ok
by edis, 2024-08-13

ok

by bahyudi, 2024-01-23
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Urban Shield requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Urban Shield is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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