McAfee® Web Boost

McAfee® Web Boost

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

What is McAfee® Web Boost?

McAfee® Web Boost is a popular Edge add-on by McAfee LLC.. This add-on has 507,472 weekly active users and a good user rating of 4.30. The latest version, 1.0.0.0, was updated 3 years ago.

Stats
Stats date:
Rating: 4.30 (36)
Version: 1.0.0.0 (Last updated: 2020-05-08)
Creation date: 2020-05-08
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • webRequestBlocking
  • tabs
  • webRequest
  • nativeMessaging
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • <all_urls>
  • webNavigation
  • activeTab
Size: 328.26K
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
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McAfee® Web Boost
McAfee® Web Boost (v1.1.0.20)
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Not available on Firefox
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
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 add-on. 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 an Edge add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Edge add-on reputation on Edge Add-on Store, the amount of time the Edge add-on has been around, and other signals about the Edge add-on. 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 an Edge add-on, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.

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User reviews
Only works correctly when it wants too. On various different websites videos play even though I have it set with access to all websites. It's frustrating because I have to pause the videos and sometimes multiple vids on single site.
by F, 2023-01-04

Web Boost installed automatically. It also prevented iHeart radio from playing, even when I selected the play button for audio! I turned off web boost and now I can listen to music again! I hope turning it off doesn't create other problems as I am not very computer savvy.
by dennis, 2023-01-02

Thanks for such an amazing extension
by Waleed, 2022-06-08
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