Reviews for Malwarebytes Browser Guard
Malwarebytes Browser Guard by Malwarebytes
Review by Timbo8150
Rated 1 out of 5
by Timbo8150, 7 xhur ilu754 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Harald Dahlke-Sladek, 6 siegħat ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13660642, 2 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by leggy, 10 ġranet iluNow youtube is not playing because the ads are blocked, I would like to add an exception for the domain of youtube (by decision, I mean, an option to add domains)
Developer response
posted 10 ġranet iluHere are some instructions for adding YouTube to the allow list for ads/trackers:
1. Click on the Browser Guard icon in your Browser's toolbar.
2. Click on the "..." top right of the page
3. Click Allow List
1. On the Allow list screen, click the +Add website button.
2. Enter the website's URL in the Add a URL or IP address field.
3. In the Disable protections drop-down, click Ad trackers.
4. Click Add to allow list. Browser Guard will no longer block ads from this site. - Rated 4 out of 5by KUMATICA, 11 ġranet iluImpressions after about a week of use.
Individual pages seem to load faster, but the behavior of the browser itself before and after loading seems to deteriorate (especially when multiple pages are opened at the same time).
Also, some sites don't respond to reCAPTCHA authentication, which may have been blocked.
I think the ability to detect trackers and block malware domains is high, scam sites (phishing?) aren't counted yet, so I'll leave them out of the current reference.Developer response
posted 10 ġranet iluThanks for the feedback, there are more performance enhancements coming soon - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18548902, 11 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Molly K, 18 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Morteus, 19 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Roswell_S4, 21 ġranet ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15734591, 25 ġranet ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13661202, 2 xhur ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by David Newman, 2 xhur ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Carlisle Mike Wick, 2 xhur ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ismael Martinez, 2 xhur iluI love this extension. What I wish is that it could be compatible with Firefox Android and that would be the best.
Developer response
posted xahar iluThank you :)
Check out https://www.malwarebytes.com/android, there's no browser extension available right now, but at least you can get some more protection. - Rated 5 out of 5by Romain, 2 xhur ilu
- Rated 5 out of 5by xtrox, 2 xhur ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Briadd-on, 2 xhur iluHaven't really encountered any big issues with it, it works like expected from what I can see. I've been using it since November 2022 on Firefox and before then on Chromium.
- Rated 2 out of 5by wietop, 3 xhur iluThe extension works most of the time, but every time I go to weather.com, it freaks out and I just keep getting redirected, with the numbers on the icon going up like crazy. I've cleaned my cache, I have the latest version of the extension, so I don't know what the issue is.
Developer response
posted 3 xhur iluPlease reach out at support.malwarebytes.com, so we can gather more details to debug this issue. - Rated 5 out of 5by cpta1203, 3 xhur ilu
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12502717, 3 xhur ilu
- Rated 1 out of 5by Newhope, 3 xhur iluThis plugins blocks my own website for phishing for years after using it for a few months, meanwhile my website is clean and I have even checked using other malware detectors and 3rd party scanning tools!!!
Developer response
posted 3 xhur iluHi there, please reach out at support.malwarbytes.com, so we can have the details for potential allowlisting. - Rated 2 out of 5by mahler, 3 xhur iluIt's slowing down the browser's site loading speed massively. Deactivated.
Developer response
posted 3 xhur iluHi there, are you using the latest 2.6.27 version? We solved a lot of the performance issues in this version.
If you are, can you please reach out at support.malwarebytes.com?