If you look for them Companies Avast ή AVG στον επίσημο ιστότοπο του Mozilla Add-ons, ίσως παρατηρήσετε ότι δεν θα σας επιστρέψει αποτελέσματα. Δεν θα εμφανιστεί ούτε το Avast Online Security ούτε το SafePrice, ούτε το AVG Online Security ή το SafePrice.
Mozilla seems to have removed these extensions from its Store. So when you try to open one of the Avast or AVG Extensions URLs, an error message is displayed “Oops! We can not find the page ".
Extensions are however not included in the black list by Mozilla. Blacklist extensions are removed from users' browsers.
The extensions of Avast and AVG seem to have been removed but not excluded, meaning that the extensions remain installed and enabled in Firefox for the time being.
Mozilla added several dozen Firefox extensions to the blacklist on December 2, which collected user data without their consent, but Avast extensions were not included in that list.
What happened;
Wladimir Palant, its developer AdBlock Plus, he published μια ανάλυση των επεκτάσεων της Avast στα τέλη Οκτωβρίου του 2018 στην προσωπική του ιστοσελίδα. Ανακάλυψε ότι η επέκταση της Avast διαβίβασε δεδομένα στην Avast, τα οποία παρείχαν στην εταιρεία information from history browsing. The data sent by the extension was not necessary for the operation to work according to Palant.
Avast, on the other hand, states on the privacy policy page that it uses Clickstream anonymous data for “direct product marketing, cross-product marketing and third-party trend analysis.
Mozilla appears to be in talks with Avast, according to Wladimir Palant. It is possible that Mozilla will add the extensions to its blacklist or ask Avast to make changes to the extensions before resetting them.
Extensions are still available for Google Chrome until this moment.
