![]() ![]() What seems like a dumb move to you, may likely be the best move by Avast. Well sorry for my english, and please dont be so negative…with ransomware and all nowadays it better be safe than sorry. I use adblock too which is adguard(ublock origin really fail fighting with anti-adblock so far for me)…i also activate that list in adguard but kaspersky security cloud free do occasionally blocked some adware links which wasnt blocked by adblock…most of the report coming from gibberish number and alphabet domain which i think they actually ads, a malicious ads…problem nowadays isnt clicking ads, but the damned “popup” even when i set ff pref to dom.popup_allowed_events to blank some of them still managed to open in the same tab or new tab(new tab instead of new windows because of tab mix plus…) Wow…you do know that thing called “list” right…hence if not in list not blocked aight?junkware?rip off?seriously dude?Īnd funny thing windows defender actually more heavy than this antivirus solution we talking about… (please do note this is on high end system and in a virtual machine)Īnd if you concerned about “slow the system down” turn off the automatic scan…just periodically scan manually.(also applies to database update?idk) Both antivirus solutions include a Web Shield component designed to check visited URLs to ensure that they are not a security risk (e.g. PC Magazine notes that Avast's Jumpshot division can still obtain data through Avast's main antivirus applications (including those by AVG). Visits to a personal homepage, Twitter replies, uploads to YouTube, or any other activity that may be linked to accounts would provide third-parties with information on the actual user.Īccording to the reports by PC Magazine and Vice, Avast stopped using data for "any other purpose than the core security engine". If the full URL is provided in a data package, it could also be easy to identify users depending on activity. Imagine Google or Amazon using date, time and URL information to cross-check with user activity on their sites. One option that companies that purchase the data have is to use other data sources to identify individual users. ![]() It includes date and time, and information about the visited site as well. A data package may include a device ID which means that it is easy enough to look up the browsing history of a particular device. While that looks good on paper, methods exists to de-anonymize data. The data is anonymized according to Avast which means that personally identifiable information such as a user's IP address or email addresses are removed from the data before it is sold. One product, called All Clicks Feed, would provide companies, customers including large corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, Home Depot, or McKinsey, with information on user behavior, clicks, and activity across visited websites in great detail. According to the info, Avast subsidiary Jumpshot gets data from Avast antivirus installations on user devices, processes it to sell the processed data to companies. Avast updated its extensions and they are now available again.Ī joint investigation by Vice and PC Magazine looked deeper into Avast's business practices surrounding collected user data. Mozilla and Google removed Avast and AVG extensions from their respective web stores as a consequence. Palant concluded back then that the over-collecting of data was not an oversight but deliberate. Among the data was the full URL of any page visited, the page title, referer (site the user came from), as well as every link on search result pages. He discovered that the extensions transmitted browsing history information to Avast that that went beyond the data needed to provide the security the product promised. ![]()
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