Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects - How to remove

Bethegamepro.com/Gaming News Feed is a browser add-on that offers to help users keep up with gaming news in their new tab. But it also takes over the default search engine, allowing Bethegamepro.com to logs search data and control what site displays web search results.

Bethegamepro.com is safe to use, but it can be considered a potentially unwanted program, if not a browser hijacker.

About Bethegamepro.com:

Classification	Potentially unwanted program.
How Bethegamepro.com works	A browser add-on opens Bethegamepro.com in every new tab page, Bethegamepro.com also opens when searching the internet, it forwards to Yahoo or Bing.
Problems and issues	Bethegamepro.com changes browser settings that aren’t needed for it to function, it tracks user data to show targeted ads.
How to stop Bethegamepro.com redirects	Uninstall the Gaming News Feed extension, check your new tab and search settings, use anti-malware apps (Malwarebytes, others) to find and delete malware.

What kind of extension is Bethegamepro.com?

Gaming News Feed/Bethegamepro.com is a browser add-on for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. I first found it while looking at Safe2Search, a dubious browser add-on that takes over web browsers after offering safe search – a basic feature of search engines that does not need a browser add-on to function.

What about Bethegamepro.com, is it better than Safe2Search?

Bethegamepro.com replaces the default search engine

Gaming News Feed is a browser add-on that replaces your new tab page and your default search engine with Bethegamepro.com. On the new tab, the extension shows a gaming news feed. The news links open reputable websites, such as IGN and PC Gamer.

The search bar on the new tab and the address bar at the top both lead to Yahoo.com. This is despite Gaming News Feed’s description on the Chrome Web Store saying that it uses Bing search (though I suppose Yahoo does get its search results from Bing, so it’s sort of correct).

Bethegamepro.com’s stated purpose is to give users quick access to gaming news. There’s no way to customize what news you want to see. There are very few sites whose articles are shared. Overall, the newsfeed works, but it’s a little disappointing.

But why does the extension change your search engine settings? According to Google, extensions should only have one purpose. Having your default search engine changed doesn’t really help improve the gaming news feed.

It logs user data

Bethegamepro.com doesn’t give you a way to choose your preferred search site on the new tab. It also shows tiles with sponsored links to sites like Booking.com – not very useful to most people. Luckily, these tiles can be turned off in the extension’s settings.

Likely, the operators of Bethegamepro.com make money from advertising and promoting a specific search engine. Browser extensions are great at this because they can control browser settings and read user data, such as their browsing history and search queries.

According to Gaming News Feed’s privacy policy on Bethegamepro.com, the extension logs user data such as search history and browsing history. It uses this data to show relevant ads. Search and browsing data can reveal personal information, but Gaming News Feed promises to delete such bits of data when it finds them.

If the Software installed by the user is a browser extension or a search related product, Mania Tech may collect the User’s search related data. This data may include data related to the URLs of websites that the User visited. Mania Tech will collect this type of data as an aggregated Non-Personal Data. However, web browsing data may contain data that could be deemed to be Personal Data. Mania Tech will delete this type of data a short time after the collection. We will use this data in order to provide certain features of the Software, such as display relevant advertising based on searches

The Bethegamepro.com site/Gaming News Feed extension is not dangerous. For one, Bethegamepro.com has a clear privacy policy, which is more than can be said about certain other search hijackers (Bbbn.xyz).

But the add-on also seems pretty unhelpful. It feels like Gaming News Feed is better at collecting data and redirecting searches than it is at helping gamers get their news.

How to stop redirects by Bethegamepro.com

If you like the Bethegamepro.com new tab, don’t mind having to use Yahoo.com (or Bing.com) to search the web, and are okay with your data being used to show you targeted ads, then there’s no need to worry about this extension.

But if you want to stop seeing Bethegamepro.com, you can do that manually or with an anti-malware app (such as Malwarebytes). Check your browser settings – you’re free to decide what sites show up in your new tab and what your favorite search engine is.

If you can’t remove Gaming News Feed (for example, if the Remove button doesn’t work, if your browser says that it’s “managed by your organization”), then there might be other files and settings keeping it on your device (configuration profiles on Macs, registry entries on PCs). Check here for more details.

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Uninstall unwanted browser extensions

TopHow To remove Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Gaming News Feed, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Bethegamepro.com Search Redirects, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.