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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers

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Avast closed its Jumpshot subsidiary in 2020 after the antivirus giant was caught selling the browsing activity of millions of its customers.
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    Fakespot’s entire thing seems to be being a cringy AI tool. I feel like whoever uses it should/would understand that this data is leaving their grasp.

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      Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for “shopping2023” or whatever flag they called it… Soon we’ll all have Fakespot installed

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        shopping2023

        thanks, disabled it immediately

      • @[email protected]
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        I can’t find any information on this, can you share a source?

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          This is where I got the screenshot from:

          https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy

          Here’s the internal meta-ticket on shopping2023, along with some stuff on fetching ads from servers

          And here’s their announcement:

          https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/fakespot-joins-mozilla-firefox-shopping-announcement/

          (Before Mozilla bought this company, its privacy policy was changed to allow transfer of private data upon sale – all of it, not just the training model. Here’s the old policy for comparison to their April 25 version; 7 days later Mozilla made the acquisition announcement)

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