McAfee® Web Boost

Stop videos from auto-playing and slowing down your web-browsing

What is McAfee® Web Boost?

McAfee® Web Boost is a very popular Chrome extension by McAfee, LLC. This extension has 2,437,603 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.23, and is most similar to Trellix Endpoint Security Web Control and FasterWeb. The latest version, 1.1.0.20, was updated a year ago.

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By: McAfee, LLC

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Users: 2,437,603 ▼ -12,154

Rating: 4.23 (171)

Version: 1.1.0.20 (Last updated: 2022-03-11)

Creation date: 2019-03-11

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

webRequest
declarativeNetRequest
tabs
nativeMessaging
storage
unlimitedStorage
webNavigation
activeTab
alarms
scripting

Host permissions:

*://*/

Size: 329.73K

Email: Click to see

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

McAfee® Web Boost (v1.0.0.0)

37 575,670

ChromeStats Rank

# 183 ▲ 5

Other rankings

#22271 in Productivity ▼ 6

#8 in web keyword

#19 in license keyword

#32 in legal keyword

#203 in privacy keyword

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Summary

McAfee® Web Boost is a browser extension that speeds up your web-browsing and helps save your data and battery life by stopping annoying auto-playing videos.

By downloading McAfee Web Boost, you agree to our License Agreement and Privacy Notice. 

License Agreement:

https://www.mcafee.com/consumer/en-us/policy/global/legal.html?tab=license

 

Privacy Notice:

https://www.mcafee.com/consumer/en-us/policy/global/legal.html?tab=privacy

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User reviews

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Pros

Stops auto-play videos
Helps keep internet browsing fast
Pausa los videos de anuncios (Pauses ads videos)
Saves memory, processing, and data transmission
Works in the background without a hitch

Cons

Causes errors and freezes in Microsoft Teams
Modifies default search engine
Annoying notification every time it stops a video from playing
Does not work on some websites
Annoying bar appears below the address bar for a few seconds
Does not stop videos on Fox News
May pause innocent videos
May collect and harvest user data
May cause lag on some systems
May not stop videos from loading, only pauses them
May not work after Chrome update

Most mentioned

Stops auto-play videos
Pausa los videos de anuncios (Pauses ads videos)
Does not work on some websites
May collect and harvest user data
May not work after Chrome update
Annoying notification every time it stops a video from playing

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Safety

Risk impact

McAfee® Web Boost requires a number of risky permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install McAfee® Web Boost if you trust the publisher.

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Risk likelihood

McAfee® Web Boost has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.

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