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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 857486" data-attributes="member: 57233">Everyone keeps screaming how they were doing it behind everyone&#039;s backs, but I&#039;m confident that avast! has been asking for permission during installation in a full settings page manner. The latest one just included Jumpshot mentioned clearly on it, but before it was about data collection and sharing of that with 3rd parties. Can&#039;t find any screenshots now, but this has been around for quite some time. People just clicking Agree on everything and then blaming companies is nothing new either...Also, I&#039;ve been turning off data sharing settings in Privacy menu since like version 5 when they introduced analytics and stuff. Even my config file shared here under avast! section includes this. Only thing I always left enabled was CommunityIQ feature which is basically only for malware related analytics that feed the protection cloud. Everything else from internal analytics to 3rd party sharing was always disabled. And it&#039;s something I always do first after avast! installation. In fact I do this with ANY antivirus or program. Kinda surprised more people don&#039;t do this or are aware of it to begin with...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 857486, member: 57233"] Everyone keeps screaming how they were doing it behind everyone's backs, but I'm confident that avast! has been asking for permission during installation in a full settings page manner. The latest one just included Jumpshot mentioned clearly on it, but before it was about data collection and sharing of that with 3rd parties. Can't find any screenshots now, but this has been around for quite some time. People just clicking Agree on everything and then blaming companies is nothing new either... Also, I've been turning off data sharing settings in Privacy menu since like version 5 when they introduced analytics and stuff. Even my config file shared here under avast! section includes this. Only thing I always left enabled was CommunityIQ feature which is basically only for malware related analytics that feed the protection cloud. Everything else from internal analytics to 3rd party sharing was always disabled. And it's something I always do first after avast! installation. In fact I do this with ANY antivirus or program. Kinda surprised more people don't do this or are aware of it to begin with... [/QUOTE]

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