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Reviews for Malwarebytes Browser Guard

Malwarebytes Browser Guard by Malwarebytes

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  • by Firefox user 14924645, a year ago
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  • by CKluse, a year ago
  • by Lenufka, a year ago
  • by Greenstack, a year ago
    I love the privacy and security options it gives, but any site that uses ReCaptcha fails to let me log in because the plugin disables and blocks it, so I need to disable the ads/trackers setting for those sites.

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    If possible, can you share the sites with broken recaptcha on it please?
    (support.malwarebytes.com)
  • by MAURICIO, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 18639446, a year ago
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  • by Firefox user 18587178, a year ago
    good but poorly updated

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    We are back to regular updates, thanks for holding on with us.
  • by Firefox user 18925976, a year ago
    Overall, it’s good, but I’d like to see more details in the statistics—specifically, the types of malware that have been blocked, not just the numbers.

    Also, the 'Access your data for all websites' option is listed as optional, but it’s necessary for the program to work. I know you’ve been pretty transparent about how the data is used, but this does raise some concerns about data security as the company isn’t open-source.

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    Thank you for the feedback, we'll take it into consideration.
    With a premium subscription on Windows, you do get access to your detection history; not exactly what you asked for, but maybe you'll find it useful.

    "Access your data for all websites" is indeed a required permission, and I do understand your concern. On Firefox, we don't collect any data. Full privacy policy is here: https://www.malwarebytes.com/privacy/policy-for-browser-guard.

    If you are technically inclined, you can see all the requests Browser Guard makes by doing the following:

    1. Navigate to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
    2. Next to Malwarebytes Browser Guard, click "Inspect"
    3. Click "Network" in the new console that opens, from there you can see all network traffic Browser Guard is making.
  • by GlennS, a year ago
  • by Beatrice Veiga, a year ago
  • by Disaster Area, a year ago
    This add-on is pretty good and helps prevent malware from being downloaded, as well as helps to avoid unsafe websites. However, today it started causing a massive memory leak whenever I opened my browser. My memory utilisation goes from about 40% with the add-on off to staying at 100% with the add-on active and websites will barely load. Hopefully this is fixed soon and I can re-enable the add-on.

    Developer response

    posted 10 months ago
    That's a bug we'd like more details on. Can you share more at support.malwarebytes.com, please?
  • by Lethologica, a year ago
  • by grahamperrin, a year ago
    Browser performance (with many tabs) suffers terribly if both Malware and Scams are switched on in addition to Ads/Trackers. For Malware, and for Scams, global switches are terribly broken: after switching off globally at one tab, I find both features wrongly switched on globally at another tab. I'll gather debug logs and discuss in the forums.

    Also, the release notes here at AMO are wildly inconsistent with the release notes at the Malwarebytes website.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    We're sorry to hear you're encountering this issue. Sending the exported log to our support team will greatly help us improve the user experience in the upcoming release.
  • by Firefox user 18123039, a year ago
    ad-block turns on by itself even when switched off in global settings. very annoying
  • by Firefox user 18908976, a year ago
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  • by Seth Wass, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 9771322, a year ago
    Расширение интересное, но до конца не оптимизированное. Есть расширение получше. Возможно много памяти браузера занимает, мной не проверено, но потом как будет время, может, посмотрю.
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    The extension is interesting, but not fully optimized. There is a better extension. It probably takes up a lot of browser memory, I haven't checked it, but then I'll take a look at the time.
  • by Skwurl, a year ago