That company's website reveals what it can offer marketers: It's a company called Jumpshot that sells your clicking data to marketers-so they know you better than you know yourself. Palant writes that he was trying to figure it out, and then he stumbled upon an Avast acquisition.

So what is Avast doing with all the data it has harvested, even from privacy savvy Firefox users? Avast buys company that is a marketer's dream, using your data The company also just posted that it has blocked one trillion tracking attempts for its users. Mozilla has long claimed that privacy is 'in its DNA,' and must have agreed that something was not quite right to make such a quick move. Within 24 hours, Mozilla removed four of the company's extensions from its Firefox browser. Palant reported the details to Mozilla in early December 2019. Mozilla pulls Avast extension for Firefox 'Are you one of the allegedly 400 million users of Avast antivirus products? Then I have bad news for you: you are likely being spied upon.'Īnd he says he found two more Avast extensions related to price comparisons for online shoppers which are also doing the same thing.

In a recent blog post, Palant put it like this: The extensions are sucking up mountains of data on users, far more data than he says is needed to complete the task at hand. Wladimir Palant is a privacy hawk and the creator of ad blocker software.Īnd about a month ago, he discovered something surprising about the Avast Online Security and AVG Secure Browser extensions used by millions for safe web browsing and as an antivirus.

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