Preciousbible.com New Tab - How to remove

Preciousbible.com, aka Precious Bible, is a new tab browser extension that, instead of helping brighten up the day for religious folks, tries to steer them to click on affiliate links and go to sites owned by Preciousbible.com’s creators and partners. Preciousbible.com offers all of three entire links to Bible-related sites, which is pathetic functionality to offer. And it doesn’t always get installed honestly – those who found it often had already been dealing with a search hijacker. There are much better Bible apps and extensions than Preciousbible.com, as this one is just plain adware.

In short about Preciousbible.com:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Issues with Preciousbible.com	Your browsing history is used for ad-targeting, can’t customize your new tab page, low-quality features that amount to three bookmarks.
How the new tab spreads	Gets bundled with free software, is advertised by adware.
Remove Preciousbible.com	Uninstall unwanted extensions, remove adware with and anti-malware tool (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.).

What’s wrong with Preciousbible.com new tab?

Precious Bible replaces your browser’s new tab page and reads your browsing history. Simply, it’s a browser hijacker, which is a type of adware. We look at ads to “pay” for free content online, and adware like Preciousbible.com skews this balance when they provide too little or no content/functionality while exposing you to more ads. Not exactly illegal and not necessarily malicious, but it also brings no value to users, only taking advantage of them and wasting their time with ads spying on their private browsing habits.

Precious Bible does this by hijacking your browser. A web browser is a program for displaying and interacting with the internet – you’re using one to read this article. People use browsers to do online banking, shopping, chat with their friends, etc. Precious Bible works as a browser extension, a little program that’s supposed to enhance a browser with unique features.

It seems like it could be a nice way to enhance your browser’s new tab page by adding daily Bible quotes and links to resources on the Bible. And though Preciousbible.com does technically provide these features, that’s not its main goal. Preciousbible.com changes your new tab page so that it can put front-and-center an affiliate link to a search engine (Yahoo) and take you there to look at the search results and all the ads.

According to its privacy policy, Preciousbible.com does not collect your search query data, only Yahoo does. But they still read your browsing history to, among other things, “Enable service providers and us to serve relevant content and advertising”.

How Preciousbible.com gets installed

Preciousbible.com is made by Innover Group, which has a template that it sticks to when making browser extensions, making them cheap and quick to produce. And Precious Bible follows this template to a T:

• replace the new tab page,
• add a prominent search bar that opens an affiliated search engine,
• add some links to popular sites,
• put a few links at the top that lead to relevant sites – these three links are the only things that make “Precious Bible” different from Flight Tab Pro, Maps Assist, and other Innover’s products.

So, if Preciousbible.com is so bad, how come around ten thousand people decided to install it?

There are a few explanations.

First, I doubt that Preciousbible.com got popular on its own. Despite having thousands of users, it has two ratings and no reviews across all the versions that I found. This is not how organically marketed browser extensions look. Compare Preciousbible.com to the Holy Bible extension, which has 500 users and 9 reviews.

I noticed that Preciousbible.com was often found by those who had been looking for Bible Gateway, YouVersion Bible, and other apps not related to Preciousbible.com. I also noticed that dubious search engines like Kensaq and Hidemysearches were being used. Showing that it’s likely that those who found Preciousbible.com found it because adware promoted it to them.

Kensaq and Hidemysearches are adware search engines that take search results from Google.com or another site and inject a few more ads. They make money without providing any new or unique features. Oh, and the ads that they show tend to be less than great: irrelevant online store pages, browser hijackers, and links to other adware search engines.

It’s also possible that Preciousbible.com was installed by a bundler as an optional offer. Bundlers are programs that say they’re a single program, but their installer includes multiple optional offers that will be installed at the same time – unless you laboriously remove the ticks from each and every checkbox that agrees to allow the installations. And even then, some of them install malware in the background. New tab hijackers have always used this method to spread.

How to remove Preciousbible.com

Unintentional installation of browser extensions isn’t anything unusual. Luckily, getting rid of unwanted extensions is also quite simple: just right-click on the extension’s icon and click on the “Remove” option, or go to your browser settings and remove extensions from there. In some cases extensions stubbornly refuse to go away and then you may need the help of an antivirus program, like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or another one.

Having your computer adware-free will improve your browsing experience and your online privacy. Remember to be careful before installing any new extensions: look up their developer (and don’t trust the ones that hide their identity), think about the permissions that an extension asks for, and read the privacy policy to make sure that you’re okay with what’s done with your data.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Manually remove Precious Bible extension

TopRemoving Preciousbible.com New Tab from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Preciousbible.com New Tab. Click on the trash bin icon next to Preciousbible.com New Tab or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Preciousbible.com New Tab, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset 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 Preciousbible.com New Tab from Microsoft Edge:Top

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

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Preciousbible.com New Tab. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Preciousbible.com New Tab or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Preciousbible.com New Tab from Firefox

• 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 Preciousbible.com New Tab 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.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Preciousbible.com New Tab, 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.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

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