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The complaint says Avast violated millions of consumers' rights by collecting, storing, and selling their browsing data without their knowledge and consent while misleading them that the products used to harvest their data would block online tracking.

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Avast data feeds included unique identifiers for each web browser and a combination of info on every website visited, timestamps, type of device and browser, as well as the users' city, state, and country. When describing its data-sharing practices, the company also falsely claimed it would only transfer the users' personal information in an aggregate and anonymous form.

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Posted on 2/22/24 at 2:15 pm to 3deadtrolls

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Posted by Matt225

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Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:18 pm to 3deadtrolls

should be sued out of existence for this betrayal.

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Posted by SG_Geaux

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Posted on 2/22/24 at 3:30 pm to 3deadtrolls

I mean, did people really think it was free?

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Posted by Joshjrn

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Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:07 pm to 3deadtrolls

If the product is free, you're the product.

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Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:09 pm to SG_Geaux

I just realized they're owned by Norton now. I'm out of the loop on consumer AV stuff.

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Posted by Rowdy Mcflowdy

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Posted on 2/24/24 at 10:15 am to 3deadtrolls

Yeah, follow the bread crumbs. Free anything? Yeah no. What I'd like to see is the other "free" software companies give a reasonable accounting of how it makes financial sense for them to give away their "free" software. Most if not all are selling data they don't tell you about, they just aren't the ones that got caught this time.

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