Not offended just some of us prefer privacy when you have multi users. With cookies some of us can reconstruct quite a bit about your session. And don't come off with the, well you shouldn't do blah blah things if you don't want to have someone find it. That is like telling a person to poof stop having any thoughts in there head.
Okay moving on from this AVAST needs to simply remove this garbage spam. I shouldn't have to allow security exceptions to have my security software function...
I fear that AVAST is going the way of norton, which is to say spammy to big for their collective britches, and not that great a software.
I hyped this software for about 10 years now but this year it has caused so many issues with my main uses, it has more and more bloat. It is just becoming a not good AV. I have to stop suggesting this as an AV for a while and see if I can find another good company that hasn't grown big enough to lose control of their purpose.