Do I need an Ad blocker?

[reza_88]

slightly off-topic here, do I need a MB extension for my chromium based browsers? I have been using MBP for over a year and did not quite know there was an extension available for Chrome's.

[exile360]

No, you don't have to use the browser extension if you don't want to, but it is quite useful and can be used on its own or in combination with Malwarebytes Premium to further augment your protection (the browser extension blocks some malicious/unwanted sites that the Web Protection component in Malwarebytes 3 does not/cannot).

[reza_88]

13 hours ago, exile360 said:

the browser extension blocks some malicious/unwanted sites that the Web Protection component in Malwarebytes 3 does not/cannot

One enough good reason to have it installed. I have it on my Brave and Chrome browsers now.

Thanks a bunch

[nukecad]

If you are using an Ad blocker with Chrome then you need to be aware of this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/

I'm not sure just how this will affect the Malwarebytes extension, I wouldn't think it should affect the malicious site blocking but it may affect the Ads/Clickbait blocking?

[exile360]

20 minutes ago, nukecad said:

If you are using an Ad blocker with Chrome then you need to be aware of this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox/

I'm not sure just how this will affect the Malwarebytes extension, I wouldn't think it should affect the malicious site blocking but it may affect the Ads/Clickbait blocking?

If it does affect it then it likely affects all of it, not just the ad blocking as all those components use the same methods/mechanisms to block sites.  I don't know if the method being used by Malwarebytes depends on the functionality being removed by Google or not though so only the Developers can speak to that but I'm not optimistic.  I suspect that we'll have to switch to different browsers to continue using our blocking extensions like Malwarebytes.  I'm already using SRWare Iron instead of Chrome (it's based on the same Chromium source code, just without Google's embedded tracking and advertising as I prefer to have my privacy and not have what is essentially adware/spyware on my system).

[Gt-truth]

7 hours ago, exile360 said:

If it does affect it then it likely affects all of it, not just the ad blocking as all those components use the same methods/mechanisms to block sites.  I don't know if the method being used by Malwarebytes depends on the functionality being removed by Google or not though so only the Developers can speak to that but I'm not optimistic.  I suspect that we'll have to switch to different browsers to continue using our blocking extensions like Malwarebytes.  I'm already using SRWare Iron instead of Chrome (it's based on the same Chromium source code, just without Google's embedded tracking and advertising as I prefer to have my privacy and not have what is essentially adware/spyware on my system).

I do not use the Google chrome itself because impacting so many devices that we have . however for the open source code project , I’ve got so many portable web-browser as a backup into the USB flash drive and thus which are based on Google chrome/ Chromium .

if you wish to switch to another web-browser then there are a lot of options !

if I am not mistaken , you using  a portable version of the SRware web browser .