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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 148 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like avast is malware

[–] expr@programming.dev 19 points 9 months ago

Has been all along.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service you get from a large company, you aren't their customer, you're their product.