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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 894073" data-attributes="member: 57233">- no it doesn&#039;t. Upselling their functions is not &quot;ads&quot; and after using avast! Free for some time till just few days ago I haven&#039;t seen a single ad for any of their features even. Only few pointers on &quot;new&quot; things they offer. Once I went through those, they were gone.- no they don&#039;t. Data collection was the same for all users if they agreed to it.It&#039;s just funny how entire world is outraged over avast! while typing that outrage on Android device and complaining over it on Facebook. If those people actually gave two f**ks over data collection they wouldn&#039;t be using either of two and they&#039;d also be regulated like years ago. Instead avast! was thrown under the bus, but Google and Facebook, totally a OK.Reason I&#039;m so neutral to avast! is because I&#039;ve had Privacy settings for data collection unchecked since avast! 5 and was thus not even affected by all of it. It&#039;s not helping their general image though and most users are exaggerating the whole thing far beyond what it really was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 894073, member: 57233"] - no it doesn't. Upselling their functions is not "ads" and after using avast! Free for some time till just few days ago I haven't seen a single ad for any of their features even. Only few pointers on "new" things they offer. Once I went through those, they were gone. - no they don't. Data collection was the same for all users if they agreed to it. It's just funny how entire world is outraged over avast! while typing that outrage on Android device and complaining over it on Facebook. If those people actually gave two f**ks over data collection they wouldn't be using either of two and they'd also be regulated like years ago. Instead avast! was thrown under the bus, but Google and Facebook, totally a OK. Reason I'm so neutral to avast! is because I've had Privacy settings for data collection unchecked since avast! 5 and was thus not even affected by all of it. It's not helping their general image though and most users are exaggerating the whole thing far beyond what it really was. [/QUOTE]

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