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"For years, the antivirus software company harvested information from users’ web browsers without their consent." #infosec #privacy Its clients have included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting 18 comments
@alshafei Avast has always been garbage software. At this point is safer to go without an antivirus than with one.   @alshafei Happy that i never fell for their trap. I didn't believed anti virus scam even in my high school days. The way these types of apps work and makes system heavy made me question their legitimacy. Second questuon, if a company "X" is able to detect viruses, how come companies like Google, FaceBook, Apple, Microsoft and Linux Kernel who have better teams and infrastructure not able to patch them in their systems. @alshafei @alshafei Unfortunately the majority of people won't care about this. If people read and were aware of user agreements, they would understand that they should not use most software.👍 @alshafei Another reminder to not use the browser addon „I don’t care about Cookies“ and switch to „I still don’t care about cookies“ instead. @alshafei if you install free proprietary software. It's often a safe bet to assume your data is being sold somehow @alshafei yikes, this is what i’ve been recommending my Windows family for years, although I’ve avoided the browser extension. What’s a reliable free alternative?  @alshafei these fines need to be orders of magnitude bigger, given revenues. Unless it really risks investors losing their money significantly, they’re just the cost of doing business. Parking tickets for arseholes who can afford to park their Ferrari anywhere they like. @alshafei they called themselves "avast" they were telegraphing their malicious intent the whole time |
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In a fairer world that fine would be at least 1 order of magnitude larger. I celebrate this as a victory nonetheless.