Is McAfee® Web Boost safe?

Clean risk

This extension stops auto-playing videos to speed up browsing and help save data and battery life.

McAfee Web Boost helps reduce interruptions from auto-playing videos while you browse. The store description says this can make web browsing faster and help save data and battery life. The extension is available in multiple languages.

McAfee, LLCv1.1.0.107Chrome Web Store
2Risk
Who publishes it

McAfee Inc - 3 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
McAfee, LLC
Declared legal entity
McAfee Inc
Registered address
6220 America Center Dr, San Jose, CA 95002, US
Registered contact
McAfee Inc
Website
www.mcafee.com/support/s/?language=en_US

Same store account

2 other listings published from this account, 158.1M+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

McAfee WebAdvisor158.0M+LowMcAfee Anti-tracker100k+Low

Same operator - 1 listing

Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.

TunnelBear VPN
same registered address
1.0M+Clean

Shared hosts - 1 hostname

Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.

home.mcafee.com
Also called by 7 other listings, including Trellix Endpoint Security Web Control, True Key

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

Publishers can request a review.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.0.107. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Read and change your data on every site you visit

    *://*/

  • Watch every request your browser makes

    webRequest

  • Block and redirect the requests your browser makes

    declarativeNetRequest

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open

    tabs

  • Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox

    nativeMessaging

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

  • Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser

    unlimitedStorage

  • See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it

    webNavigation

  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension

    activeTab

  • Schedule its own background tasks

    alarms

  • Run its own code inside the pages you visit

    scripting

Updated 30 September 2026klekeajafkkpokaofllcadenjdckhinm