http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/antivirus-tracking-youd-surprised-sends/
According to these guys, and yes, I do believe them. Seems like anti virus are becoming more and more intrusive, bloated, hoisting crap on you such as advertising. All boils down to the almighty dollar. Whatever happened to simple and effective?
I guess you work for free??? I know I don’t except for charity work.
The nature of infections has also changed.
This doesn’t mean that some of the information collected really has nothing to do with security.
Remember that here in the US, there is no privacy. Any one who thinks there is, is very naive.
If you use the free version of any AV, you need to expect the company providing that service to find some way to
recover their cost. Sending you 200+ updates per day isn’t cheap. Maintaining, developing and improving the protection you receive
also costs money.
+1
Obviously didn’t get enough bites on the Wilders forum and thought you’d post it here too :
@those over-privacy-concerned,
I looked at that comparison table and what user data are actually transmitted and collected. Most data are non-exclusive non unique data like your licence data, your system specifications etc., Visited uri’s are transmitted as private data, but how is a web shield protection gonna function when avast! does not know what site you are on. So I think all these data are made anonymous and are being collected just because they are vital for the av solution to function properly.
As the username is not being transmitted this comes to show that avast! is not interested to know who you are,.
av solutions are not used for mass surveillance, folks. Let that idea sink in.
To set your mind further at rest a browser and google collect far more on you (virtually all you do online) and then sells that meta data.
And remember when some program comes for free then be assured that you are part of that product.
I am glad and proud to be because I have seen avast! only becoming better over time.
I like my avast! user experience. Know the product, have met the folks behind it, have met the developers behind it personally.
avast! is my personal av golem from Prague and it does an excellent job of protecting the avast! community.
polonus
Looks like Digmar is a copy cat :
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=151504.msg1100612#msg1100612
Eddy: Ooops sorry, didn’t know this was posted before.
CraigB: posted this on Wilders as I am pretty sure that all members of Wilders do not read this forum and vice versa, Is there a problem posting something on 2 forums?
Bob: has nothing to do with working for free, I was just posting some information for discussion, its a free country, people can make a informed decision use whatever antivirus they want, if they don’t care about privacy so be it, I really don’t care what they do.
Seeing this was already posted it can be deleted in mods choose to do so.
Hi digmor crusher,
Not a point to post on various fora, be free to do that, or starting an interesting thread here. That is OK.
One thing is always remember to give the origin of you link or quotes and whenever available the link or quote author(s).
It does not matter really to link or quote as long as you give credit where credit is due.
I had to learn that rule, others had to learn this too and you better be aware of this rule.
Want to convince yourself that privacy is a non-existent animal, go for some device fingerprinting here: http://noc.to/ *
and come to the conclusion that you and others are fully transparent, so act accordingly.
Keep your thoughts to yourself and do not put out online what you do not want to be out in public.
polonus
digmor crusher@ I think the whole privacy horse has been flogged to many times and has died 
these topics are just repeating the same old stuff imo 
+1
Digmar did you read the links I gave in the other thread?
So, have you all given up on privacy? Is there little people can do, or just give up?
Hi Dumper,
Just do not give away what you want to keep private. Block scripts online and run DoNotTrackMe, ABP etc. Whenever you are really paranoid use a tor browser, but be aware that tor (exit) nodes can be poisoned or “owned”. Know that over the years all security and technology we know (e.g. wifi routers, certification, etc. etc.) has been downgraded and holed on purpose to make mass surveillance on a global scale much easier and government(s) and commerce worked “hand in foot” towards that end. So how do you think the common user can get that genie back into the bottle? This mass surveillance has come upon us and it has come to stay… All of known human’s history from the beginning of time until 2000 is around 5 terabytes large. Know now that NSA stores that amount of data every year on their “beast” racks and they aren’t the only organization into that game.
polonus
Yes I did. However just so you know, I am not a paranoid over privacy, i just posted this for discussion. I am absolutely aware that anything you do online can be tracked and personally I do not care as I have nothing to hide. And yes CraigB it has been discussed to death, doesn’t mean its right.
Not wanting something doesn’t mean it is not right.
People should just accept the fact that there never was, is and never will be real privacy and I do not mean just online things.
On average information about a person is stored on 700!() systems from all kinds of organizations.
bank, credit card company, ISP, insurance companies, government (local, country, tax), grocery stores, etc. etc.
Will discussing a dead horse bring the horse back to life ???
From Privacy Rights Clearinghouse,
https://www.privacyrights.org/online-privacy-using-internet-safely
If this should not have been posted please delete.
Bob, just because you do not have any interest does not mean other people may not be interested. Not all of us think Avast is the most perfect software in the world like yourself.
There are many things I’d like to see enhanced in avast!. Guess you only read certain posts.
The lack of privacy isn’t the fault of your AV.
You make it sound like your AV is the reason you have no privacy.
You are sadly mistaken if that’s your understanding of why there is no privacy.
Your constant criticising of people for many months now is getting quite irritating.