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

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 19, 2015 @01:25AM 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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Re:Best alternative? by willworkforbeer · 2015-09-19 01:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What's the best alternative right now for windows?
OS X? :-)

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Re:Best alternative? by Irate+Engineer · 2015-09-19 01:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What's the best alternative right now for windows?
Linux Mint!
Oh wait, you meant for anti-virus? Then my answer is:
Linux Mint.

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