On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:39:28 -0500
"Mayayana" wrote:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/q...-investigation

About Avast/AVG collecting detailed browsing history through
their products and selling it to... just about everyone! Wild stuff.
Then again, was there ever any reason to trust AV companies
in a time when corporations are coming up with excuses why
spying and selling personal data is "normal"? Even car companies
are now claiming their customers have given them permission
to spy on their driving.



That's why I quit using it when I was using Windows 7. I found out
that every question asked in their support group was going straight to
Google.

You could ask a question, and then immediately search for that question
on Google and find it.

I don't know how much Google was paying Avast, but I remember Mozilla
was getting 300 million a year for have Google as the default search
engine.

I imagine Avast knows about everything on your computer, so Google
does too.