AVG Proudly Announces It Will Sell Your Browsing History To Online Advertisers

An anonymous reader writes: AVG, the Czech antivirus company, has announced a new privacy policy in which it boldly and openly admits it will collect user details and sell them to online advertisers for the purpose of continuing to fund its freemium-based products. This new privacy policy is slated to come into effect starting October 15. The policy says: We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including: Advertising ID associated with your device; Browsing and search history, including meta data; Internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect to our products, and Information regarding other applications you may have on your device and how they are used.

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Re:"you are the product" is for Cows

[Irate Engineer]

You are all products. Products get SOLD! SOLD! products SOLD! YOU PRODUCTS!!!

Mooo!