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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on October 01, 2018, 02:38:33 PM

Title: how do I know that Avast really found some cookies tracking me?
Post by: REDACTED on October 01, 2018, 02:38:33 PM

Avast recently messaged me with an alert, that they found some cookies which are tracking me, monitoring my online activity, etc. My question is, how do I know that Avast is not making this stuff up, just to scare me into paying them money for upgraded service?? Ken

Title: Re: how do I know that Avast really found some cookies tracking me?
Post by: Pondus on October 01, 2018, 02:58:47 PM

probably an ad for buying additional avast programs (avast clean up i think)

https://www.howtogeek.com/241006/how-to-block-third-party-cookies-in-every-web-browser/
https://www.howtogeek.com/298429/clearing-your-cookies-all-the-time-makes-the-web-more-annoying/
https://www.geek.com/chips/understanding-and-dealing-with-web-browser-tracking-cookies-1310507/