I have Avast mobile security. So is that collecting every single URL I visit, or only the ones malware comes from?
"For this purpose, we collect information from your device and Android OS, including crash data, current language/country code, anonymous identification of Avast user, and identified threats or visited URLs." - Privacy Policy
What does that even mean? "Identified threats OR visited URLs?" Weird wording. Maybe they meant to have an "and" there?
I looked at the permissions according to the app before I began using it, and nowhere did it say it looked at browsing history for Chrome, Internet or even My Files. But when I looked at the permissions from android settings, it said it had the power to view my history. Furthermore, This webshield was enabled from the beginning, which scans all the URLs. Is avast storing/selling these URLs?
If this is the case, I'm not seeing how they anonymize this data either. An explanation on how they do that would be nice.
Thanks!