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
- webRequestBlocking
- tabs
- webRequest
- nativeMessaging
- storage
- unlimitedStorage
- <all_urls>
- webNavigation
- activeTab
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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
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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