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Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps (arstechnica.com)
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[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

"Data about the websites a person visits isn’t just another corporate asset open to unfettered commercial exploitation," Fair writes.

Fair.

Disclosure: Condé Nast, Ars Technica's parent company, received data from Jumpshot before its closure.

Nice.

[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Unfucking believable, also the grift continues "Avast has been acquired by Gen Digital, a firm that contains Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCLeaner, and ReputationDefender, among other security businesses."

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 26 points 9 months ago

Rip, once great software

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

… CCLeaner

Oh, that's why.

[–] Moose@moose.best 5 points 9 months ago

My roommate from a year ago was adamant CCleaner was required for his PC to keep running. In 2023. I was just shocked to see it was still even a thing.

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

“Let me tidy up these cookies for you….” .

Unbelievable.

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

CCLeaner?

They really don't like the original name Crap Cleaner anymore, eh?

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 9 months ago

BulkCrapUninstaller is pretty good tho.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 9 months ago

Btw, the scripts on their site track you.