Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek announced today at official blog of the company that Jumpshot, a subsidiary that sold data from Avast products to third companies, will close.
Avast is known for its anti-virus applications for various operating systems, and has expanded significantly in recent years. It acquired rival AVG in 2016 and Piriform, the maker of the CCleaner application in 2017. It also has the HideMyAss service, which offers VPNs and proxy servers.
Όπως αναφέραμε σε προηγούμενες δημοσιεύσεις, ο Wladimir Palant, προγραμματιστής του AdBlock Plus, δημοσίευσε μια ανάλυση των επεκτάσεων για προγράμματα περιήγησης της Avast στα τέλη του 2019 στο προσωπικό του blog. Ο ερευνητής κατέληξε στο συμπέρασμα ότι η Avast συλλέγει περισσότερα δεδομένα από ό, τι χρειάζεται για να παρέχει ασφάλεια στους χρήστες της. Η Mozilla και η Google απέκλεισαν προσωρινά τις επεκτάσεις της Avast από τα store τους, αλλά τις επανέφεραν σύντομα, αφού η Avast έκανε ορισμένες απαραίτητες αλλαγές.
The ones last days we learned that Avast collects its users' browsing history and sells the data to third parties, according to a joint PCMag and Vice survey.
Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek said today that "Jumpshot has hurt the feelings of many" and that the whole incident "raised several questions" such as the "fundamental issue of confidenceς ”.
Ondrej Vlcek said that Avast's top priority is to protect them people and that "anything contrary is unacceptable".
Avast launched Jumpshot in 2015 to extend "data analysis capabilities beyond security". According to the CEO, the company believed it could do it "in a safer way" than the other companies that collected data. Jumpshot operated as an independent company according to Vlcek but always within the legal framework.
The new Avast CEO started evaluating every part of the business when he took over. They concluded that the data collection company did not comply with Avast's "privacy priorities".
So it was decided to close Jumpshot.
I firmly believe that it will help Avast better focus on fulfilling its promise of security and privacy. And thank you very much to our users, whose recent feedback speeds up our decision.
Everything Avast CEO says is fine, but the company will have a hard time regaining the trust of its users.
Let's see whatconditions funding will now find the company, because free software means that revenue does not exist directly from the end user himself, so it should be turned to third parties. Advertisements; bloatware; Opening a new Jumpshot, until they hit us?
