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December 15, 2021

In this blog, I will discuss the recent happenings with the Antivirus company Avast. Avast has recently been caught selling user web browsing data via a subsidiary company called Jumpshot.

Some of this Data that Avast has been selling includes:

Google searches

Lookups of locations

GPS coordinates

people visiting companies

particular YouTube videos

people visiting porn websites

Avast should know most users don't want their data being collected and sold, maybe its time to uninstall Avast.

Link to the article:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/antivirus-firm-avast-is-reportedly-selling-users-web-browsing-data/