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<blockquote data-quote="Divine_Barakah" data-source="post: 881754" data-attributes="member: 79770"><p>"Even assuming that other AVs don't do the same (haha), it's a completely pointless discussion, I don't understand the people who keep bringing it up."</p><p></p><p>Well, you can say innocent until proven guilty? I remember [USER=58943]@ForgottenSeer 58943[/USER] <a href="https://malwaretips.com/threads/avast-avg-you-snakes.86727/" target="_blank">post </a>about how much telemetry both Avast and AVG send way before the disclosed information about them selling data. That is not the only reason I stopped using Avast or AVG. Lately, both products have been causing issues with Windows updates and browsers and even BSOD. I don't like the way to tamper with browsers (e.g. the constant alert by FF that some AVG users cannot access their passwords and the "managed by your organisation" message in chrome.). I have not ever used the free version of Avast or AVG. Moreover, privacy-invading option is settings are selected by default and do you what they in the min or so after you install the product and before unchecking these options. Is there any guarantee that "paid" user who opted out of these options were not affected by data selling?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Divine_Barakah, post: 881754, member: 79770"] "Even assuming that other AVs don't do the same (haha), it's a completely pointless discussion, I don't understand the people who keep bringing it up." Well, you can say innocent until proven guilty? I remember [USER=58943]@ForgottenSeer 58943[/USER] [URL='https://malwaretips.com/threads/avast-avg-you-snakes.86727/']post [/URL]about how much telemetry both Avast and AVG send way before the disclosed information about them selling data. That is not the only reason I stopped using Avast or AVG. Lately, both products have been causing issues with Windows updates and browsers and even BSOD. I don't like the way to tamper with browsers (e.g. the constant alert by FF that some AVG users cannot access their passwords and the "managed by your organisation" message in chrome.). I have not ever used the free version of Avast or AVG. Moreover, privacy-invading option is settings are selected by default and do you what they in the min or so after you install the product and before unchecking these options. Is there any guarantee that "paid" user who opted out of these options were not affected by data selling? [/QUOTE]
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