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

Posted by timothy on from the mere-metadata-private-edition dept.

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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  1. Alternatives to AVG by BringMyShuttle · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  2. AVG Filtering Negative Press? by threc · · Score: 5, Informative

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

    Thanks for protecting me AVG. /sarcasm

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