Malwarebytes Browser Guard Discussion Thread

[Corrine]

From Malwarebytes Press Center - News & Events | Free Malwarebytes Browser Guard Combats Privacy Abuses, Tracking, Clickbait, Unwanted Ads and Tech Support Scammers:

Malwarebytes’ innovative browser extension safeguards consumers from scammers, enabling them to browse the web up to four times faster, without interruption. The free tool blocks tech support scams in addition to annoying and sometimes malicious pop-ups, and prevents browser hijacking and browser lockers, all known scare tactics used to trap consumers into purchasing unnecessary, expensive technical support and exposing them to unwanted content.

To install on Google Chrome go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ and search for Malwarebytes Browserguard
To install on Firefox go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/malwarebytes/ 

Note:  Although Browser Guard is indicated as free for use on Chrome and Firefox browsers, it also works on Microsoft Edge Chromium, Dev and Beta versions.  To use it on those versions of Microsoft Edge:

• Go to edge://extensions/
• Click "Allow extensions from other stores" and "Allow" to the pop-up.
• Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ and search for Malwarebytes Browserguard
• Click "Add to Chrome"

[darksurfer]

It doesn't work on Pale Moon browser.

[plodr]

Products can't be expected to work on all browsers out there. MBAM picked two and said this

Malwarebytes Browser Guard is available to install on both Firefox and Chrome browsers.

Source: https://support.malwarebytes.com/docs/DOC-3439

[darksurfer]

I know that. I just think that with so many folk, including here using Pale Moon, it would be nice if this extension was available to us, too.

[plodr]

Palemoon is probably a very low percentage.
August 2019 Source: https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Chrome: 56.8%
Safari: 12.3%
IE and Edge: 7.8%
Firefox: 5.3%
Opera: 2.1%

I wonder if the 5.3% identified as FF includes all the variations like Waterfox, Palemoon and Basilisk?
When I mention I use Palemoon as my default browser, there are a lot who have never heard of it.

[darksurfer]

Well, Pale Moon is pretty secure anyway, so no need for Malwarebytes extension.

[Antus67]

Been using it on Chome and appears to be working OK pages are loading faster. Prior to this release was using uBlock

[Corrine]

I still use uBlock Origin and a couple of times when researching something, it has blocked the site when Malwarebytes Browser Guard didn't.

[Pete!]

I was wondering if it plus uBlock was redundant.
I guess, at this point, "not entirely".

[Corrine]

As the description indicates, Malwarebytes Browser Guard is concentrating on blocking scams, malicious pop-ups, and preventing browser hijacking and browser lockers whereas uBlock is also blocking ads.

[techie]

Malwarebytes still has some bugs and maybe adjustments in it's whitelist. It will also at times completely break or slow a site to a crawl. I mean sites like Amazon or Ebay doesn't like to play well. This is usually due to third party pictures.

[DR M]

A question about ublock, although the topic is about Malwarebytes:

How can we add it in Pale Moon? I have it in my own computer, but I forgot how I did that, so I can use it in other computers with Pale Moon. My search leads to the Updater.

[Corrine]

The instructions are here How to install uBlock Origin in Pale Moon 27 [revised] and also work for Pale Moon Version 28.  The direct XPI download is uBlock0_1.22.4.firefox.xpi.

Edit note:  Reading the Pale Moon topic, it appears this may be the latest legacy version:  https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases?after=1.18.10

[DR M]

Edit note:  Reading the Pale Moon topic, it appears this may be the latest legacy version:  https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases?after=1.18.10

Thank you! I didn't thought that there were more pages and versions there. 

[plodr]

uBO on all my Palemoons (4 computers) have stalled at 1.16.4.11 which came out I think in March.

I don't think 1.18 is a legacy version but I'll have another look. (appears to be for chrome)
I spent some time about 2 weeks ago looking because none of my add-ons seem to ever update.

I do have the special uBO updater installed v 1.6.6 so it should update if a new legacy version comes out.