{"id":34657,"date":"2022-01-10T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34657"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:50:16","slug":"avast-antivirus-software-sold-browsing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/10\/avast-antivirus-software-sold-browsing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Avast Antivirus Software Sold Browsing History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/avast-jumpshot\/\">Nick Heer<\/a> (in 2020):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/avast-jumpshot\/\">\n<p>Avast&rsquo;s web browser extensions were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2019\/12\/09\/are-you-one-of-avasts-400-million-users-this-is-why-it-collects-and-sells-your-web-habits\/\">caught collecting every website users were visiting<\/a> for sale by its Jumpshot subsidiary. Those extensions were pulled and the company insisted that the information had no personal information attached[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Avast knows de-anonymization is trivial. That&rsquo;s why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avast.com\/en-ca\/antitrack\">it sells an anti-tracking product<\/a> that explicitly promises to &ldquo;disguise your online behavior so that no one can tell it&rsquo;s you&rdquo; for just $65 per year. That&rsquo;s nice of Avast: it will sell your identity, and also sell you a product that promises to prevent companies from selling your identity.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Update: Avast has announced that they are <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.avast.com\/a-message-from-ceo-ondrej-vlcek\">shutting down Jumpshot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/08\/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer\/\">Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/avast-anti-virus-false-positives-for-apps-that-use-swift\/\">Avast Anti-Virus False Positives for Apps That Use Swift<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer (in 2020): Avast&rsquo;s web browser extensions were caught collecting every website users were visiting for sale by its Jumpshot subsidiary. Those extensions were pulled and the company insisted that the information had no personal information attached[&#8230;] [&#8230;] Of course, Avast knows de-anonymization is trivial. That&rsquo;s why it sells an anti-tracking product that explicitly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-10T21:50:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"18736f96-845f-45ff-9789-0ba4bb7d66de","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-10T21:50:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGHNvloRfRf-XiQuku31m3g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1633,30,32,1891,504,355,1451],"class_list":["post-34657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-avast","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-11-0","tag-malware","tag-privacy","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34658,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34657\/revisions\/34658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}