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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AVG is dreadful

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

In my experience AVG is dreadful and only somewhat effective.

I used it for years when it was good, and then it started to want to do updates that never "took"...so it would try to do the update again, and again, and again. Sometimes it would start but not run or it would error out. Then it started displaying nag screens with ads for the "Pro" version.

I dumped it and moved to Comodo which seems less needy and doesn't pester me with ads.

Alternatives to AVG

[BringMyShuttle]

A timely PC MAG review rating many free anti-virus programs: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

Don't let the door hit your bum on the way out, AVG

AVG Filtering Negative Press?

[threc]

Well would you look at that: http://i.imgur.com/YsNjWCc.png

Thanks for protecting me AVG. /sarcasm