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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 823865" data-source="post: 860306">Unlike Google or Facebook, which is obvious why:- An Av isn&#039;t supposed to use your datas and resell them for marketing purpose of 3rd parties.- An AV doesn&#039;t need your datas to operate any of its functions, even a web filter doesn&#039;t need to collect datas in raw form but just hashes.- An AV is about security not data mining.Avast deserve all this backfire, they got greedy, they pay the price today.I always found it shitty since v4, the current situation doesn&#039;t changed much my opinion about it.The only things i feel unfair to Avast from all this, is an obvious agenda from a &quot;less-than-impartial&quot; news provider, who said nothing in the past.Avast didn&#039;t started data mining last month.As a company, Avast can do whatever they want with their products, they warned their user beforehand, so in my book,&nbsp; there is nothing outrageous. people are free to use it or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 823865, post: 860306"] Unlike Google or Facebook, which is obvious why: - An Av isn't supposed to use your datas and resell them for marketing purpose of 3rd parties. - An AV doesn't need your datas to operate any of its functions, even a web filter doesn't need to collect datas in raw form but just hashes. - An AV is about security not data mining. Avast deserve all this backfire, they got greedy, they pay the price today. I always found it shitty since v4, the current situation doesn't changed much my opinion about it. The only things i feel unfair to Avast from all this, is an obvious agenda from a "less-than-impartial" news provider, who said nothing in the past. Avast didn't started data mining last month. As a company, Avast can do whatever they want with their products, they warned their user beforehand, so in my book, there is nothing outrageous. people are free to use it or not. [/QUOTE]

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