ExpressVPN adds Web Protection to its browser extension

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ExpressVPN’s browser extension now includes Web Protection, a new feature that helps block known malicious, phishing, and scam websites in real time, even when your VPN isn’t...

The browser is where most people run into online threats: clicking a link, a search result, or an ad can take you to a fake login page or a scam store. These sites often look convincing, and they can appear and disappear quickly.

Web Protection adds a safety check at exactly that point. When a page starts to load, it’s checked against regularly updated lists of known malicious, phishing, and scam sites. If there’s a match, Web Protection stops the page and shows a block page instead.

Web Protection checks the full web address, rather than the whole domain. This lets it target a specific malicious page or script while leaving other content on the same domain accessible.

For example, a web address like files.example.com/shared/fake-login.html points to one specific page on a site. DNS-based tools only see the files.example.com part, so to stop that one page, they’d have to block the whole…

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