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Yes, the permission was optional up till now.  It allows Browser Guard and our anti malware product to communicate with one another.  This allows us to provide a better customer experience by allowing the products to work in sync with one another vs being unaware of one another.
Please see https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/11043115390867-Malwarebytes-Browser-Guard-2-5-5-Release-Notes

Privacy v3.6 is pushing out now and hopefully has a fix for the KB5005101 issue noted above.

Sincerely appreciate your well thought out and articulated points.
We're currently heads down focusing on the Manifest v3 requirement changes but will certainly take these suggestions into future requirement consideration.
 

Hi John,
Appreciate you checking in.  Yes, we are actively working on migrating Browser Guard to Manifest v3.  There were a few kinks we were waiting on Chrome to work thru but now that those are completed we are full steam ahead.  

Actually we had a hiccup pushing out to the Mozilla store and it wouldn't allow us to use v2.5.1 so currently v2.5.1 is the production version for Chrome & Edge and v2.5.2 is the production version for Firefox.  The next release for everyone will be v2.5.3 so in essence Chrome & Edge will skip v2.5.2. 

This is a question for Scamalytics.  Datacamp Limited and the server in question are legitimate.  Saying 100% of traffic routed thru a valid VPN server is high risk is 100% inaccurate.

Apple has restrictions on the number of entries we can include in our database so that one is not currently included.  We are researching opportunities to include it.

It looks like Chrome fixed this bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1321962

v1.1.2 was submitted to the app store this morning.  Hoping it resolves the issue.

Apologies for that, they are posted now.

The block has been removed.  Please allow 1 hr for it to propogate out.

Both are based on the Chromium technology and are the same.  We've supported loading the extension from the Chrome store on the Edge browser for a while now.  Just making it easier to discover and install.

Hi @Freeedie you can install Privacy using this link: https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mbprivacy-online
Then use the license key or account credentials you created to activate the product.
Additional product information can be found here: https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/categories/360003545953
 

The site continually tries to spawn ad's while open and we block them.  This is functioning as designed.

If there's a malicious script running on the site in question it could pick up the data as you key it in.
Correct, Malwarebytes does NOT do anything to identify or use data you enter.

Appreciate you pointing this out.
The only option in the short term is to hide the block count from the icon in settings. 

v2.3.18 is live and should resolve this issue.

v2.3.18 is live and should resolve this issue.

v2.3.18 is live and should resolve this issue.

v2.3.18 is now live and should resolve this issue.

@Chas4 apologies for that.  There was a small issue with the database that should be resolved now.

Please see: https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008507402-Manage-website-warnings-in-Malwarebytes-Browser-Guard

There is still an active threat on that site.  See:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/acb6aa1a41be364eea5ed84efc52f5dfd72f8b83ff58538033aec926d0911bf4
 
 

Hi @1PW,
The check for updates button is actually just to check for database updates.  It is not for product version updates.
We'll look at updating the text to make that more clear.
Note: The extension automatically checks for database updates several times each hour.  The check for updates button is really for situations where you're urgently looking for an update or you suspect updates aren't automatically loading.
Thank you for your continued support.

Apologies, thank you for reporting this.  We submitted a fix to the Chrome store earlier this morning.  A resolution will be available as soon as they approve v2.3.16.
We appreciate your support.