Mastering Bitcoin Security: Tips, Tools, and Best Practices

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I know a lot of people here dislike Ethereum, MetaMask does have a feature of potentially showing a warning if the user opens a phishing site, which I don't think uBlock Origin has that feature.

Trustwallet and some other wallet that I can not point to people to use also have that, but I do not think it is working in a way that it is pointing to phishing sites, I think it is pointing to new created sites.

I have seen new created legit site for presales that would be first tagged as 'may not be legit' on these web3 wallets, but legit. As the site grows older, the warning message will not appear again if the site is legit.

But why should wallet become a browser? That browser called web3 is now majorly used by scammers to make novice to connect to their fake website, we can see people complaining everywhere and including some member on this forum about their wallet that they connect to fake website and all their money stolen.

Metamask is not a shield in anyway. If you have your coins there, there would not be warning if a hacker have access to someone's metamask wallet and know the person seed phrase or able to transfer the coins on it. Metamask can be as vulnerable as other online wallets.

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This is a collection of some of the strangest pieces of advice I heard this month. What do you mean by locking your keys tightly? Hardware wallets from Ledger no longer have that good reputation. Why do you need two-factor authentication applications? You can create a multi-signature wallet. Browser Shields means first-line wallets and therefore a greater possibility of losing your money. It's also bad for privacy.

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Apart from the fact that MetaMask is an altcoin wallet not a "shield"; technically you should keep your bitcoin offline so that getting your online system infected wouldn't affect them. And if you want protection install uBlock Origin and a decent Anti Virus on your system that has net protection.

I know a lot of people here dislike Ethereum, MetaMask does have a feature of potentially showing a warning if the user opens a phishing site, which I don't think uBlock Origin has that feature.

There's this one plugin that's made exclusively for blocking phishing sites though, so it should be a better pick than MetaMask. I forgot the name of the plugin.

Most browsers already have built in phishing protection.  uBlock Origin also offers additional protection against this. The default lists are already good enough for most people but if someone really wants to use Metamask's domain filter it can be imported into uBO by going into the dashboard and pasting the URL to the hosts.txt file from their GitHub. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect/main/src/hosts.txt