Now that might seem like a really dumb statement because, of course it's watching what I'm on otherwise how else would it know when to block something. My problem isn't that Avast is watching the sites I'm accessing my problem is I don't know what it's doing with that information.
Okay lets get into the details. When I ever open anything NSFW, I get the popup to buy the VPN, clearly Avast is taking the website I'm on, comparing its a to a predetermined list of NSFW websites and matching it. When it gets a match it says oh this guy is looking at NSFW content lets give him an ad for the VPN. Is that not really shady behaviour? It's essentially saying "Hey, we're snooping at everything you do, but buy this piece of software from us so other things can't snoop too!"
If that's not shady I don't know what is, and what concerns me is what is it doing with this information, selling my browser history off to gawd knows who for whatever ulterior motive? This has made me realise that really I have no idea what Avast is doing in the background all the time, clearly more than is labelled that's for sure. Tracking my browsing history and displaying ads depending on what I'm looking at, now where have I seen that before hmm.
Stop stalking me Avast, not cool bro.
