Chrome
Install the SandVPN extension on Chrome
Five steps, about a minute, no account. The only part people get stuck on is the last one, so it is in here too.
Add to Chrome — freeThe five steps
Open the Chrome Web Store listing
Use the button above, or search the store for SandVPN. Check the publisher before adding anything — extensions with similar names are a known problem in every store.
Click Add to Chrome
The blue button on the right of the listing. Chrome will then show a dialog listing the permissions the extension asks for.
Confirm the permissions
A VPN extension needs to read and redirect your traffic, because that is what routing it through another country means. Chrome words this as reading your data on websites, which is the same thing said alarmingly.
Pin the icon
Click the puzzle piece to the right of the address bar, find SandVPN, and click the pin. Without this the icon stays hidden behind that menu and connecting takes two clicks instead of one.
Click the icon and connect
Choose a country, or open the Streaming tab and click a service to let it pick the country for you. The ring turns green when the tunnel is up.
If something goes wrong
The icon does not appear
It is almost always unpinned rather than uninstalled. Click the puzzle piece to the right of the address bar — it will be in that list. If it genuinely is not, check chrome://extensions to see whether it was disabled.
A site still blocks you
Reload the page after connecting: the page in front of you was fetched with the old address. If it still refuses, the service is likely rejecting the address range rather than the country — switch to another location in the list.
Everything got slower
You are probably on a distant server. Pick one closer to you, or closer to the site you are opening. A tunnel to another continent costs latency that a tunnel next door does not.
Now that it is installed
Three things worth doing before you forget about it.
Keep it pinned
One click to connect is the difference between using it and not. Chrome unpins new extensions by default.
Learn the Streaming tab
Rather than guessing a country, search the site you want. The extension knows where it is licensed and connects there.
Know what free covers
Four countries, no time limit, no card. Premium adds the other 31 and the faster lines.
Frequently asked questions
I added it but nothing happened
Chrome hides new extensions behind the puzzle icon to the right of the address bar. It is there. Click the pin next to SandVPN and the icon moves into the toolbar for good.
Why does it ask to read data on all sites?
Because a VPN extension redirects your requests, and to redirect a request it has to see it. That permission is what makes the tunnel possible; an extension asking for less could not route your traffic at all. What we do with it is set out in the privacy policy.
Does the same extension work on Edge and Brave?
Edge has its own listing on the Microsoft store — use that one, it updates properly. Brave and other Chromium browsers can install from the Chrome Web Store directly.
Can I install it on Chrome for Android?
No — Chrome on Android does not support extensions at all, on any site. Use the SandVPN Android app instead, which protects every app on the phone rather than only the browser.
How do I remove it?
Right-click the icon and choose Remove from Chrome, or open chrome://extensions and remove it there. Nothing is left behind and there is no account to close.
