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What do you think of "Send anonymous telemetry to Malwarebytes.

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Does "Send" send data that's really anonymous?
Does "Send" produce revenue for Malwarebytes?
Does "Send" help Malwarebytes and thereby help users?

What's included in "telemetry"?
What do you think.
Thanks

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My hypothesis: It records whenever a user proceeds to a website that is/was a false positive, detects when web elements hosted by malicious domains try to appear on a web page, or when exploit prevention detects and prevents an exploit. This way, it can upload information to the Malwarebytes servers and say "Hey boss, this website looks clean!" or "Hey boss, this website looks infected!", thus reducing the risk of false positives and increasing the detection rate of malicious websites and domains. However, as the Web Protection module is primarily database-drivem rather than heuristics-driven, your guess is as good as mine.

If a clean website is hosted on the same IP Address as an infected website however, then it will usually produce a false positive. Similarly, some VPNs and TOR connections could also produce false positives.

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@bjm 

Does "Send" send data that's really anonymous?

- Yes it is, none of the data can be traced back to you.


Does "Send" produce revenue for Malwarebytes?

- No revenue is produced by "Send" or any other component in the UI


Does "Send" help Malwarebytes and thereby help users?

- Yes it does

 

What's included in "telemetry"?

- Allow list: This helps us figuring out the false positives

- Full URL's from the block pages, these URLs helps us identifying new malware and fix false positives created by the heuristics engine in the Browser Extension

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14 hours ago, rakeshsejwal said:

@bjm it is a requirement from Mozilla that we have telemetry as default opt-out

you can read about the browser extension privacy policy and telemetry collection at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/malwarebytes/privacy/

Ahh, okay. Thanks
I had not read https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/malwarebytes/privacy/.  Chrome is my daily rider.
I presumed  https://www.malwarebytes.com/privacy/ offered with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/malwarebytes-browser-exte/ihcjicgdanjaechkgeegckofjjedodee was for "Malwarebytes Browser Extension" regardless of browser.  

Is there a privacy policy for Malwarebytes Browser Extension in Chrome?

Thanks

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20 hours ago, Amaroq_Starwind said:

Editing posts is disabled for normal users because of spamners abusing it. This is also why you need to contact an Admin to set your profile image.

Hopefully in the future, there will be better systems in place.

Thanks.  I was not aware of issues re spammers.  Yes, I also wondered about changing my profile image.  
Thanks again,

Cheers

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