Pretty sure that's not what he's talking about.
I have Avast Free Antivirus installed on my work laptop and it does the same thing.
Refuses to stop letting me know that my internet activity is not as private as I think.
While my Avast Premier installation on my home computers don't advertise VPN as much (pretty sure it does but not as invasive), I will also be opting out of Avast's services - I just realized I have two Avast licenses, one Premier and one Internet Security, and I can only see one license in my account.
EDIT: Plus, I'm currently in the Philippines for business and noticed that it costs 1390PHP (25.79USD) for a 3-PC 1-Year subscription of Premier. Worldwide price is 99.99USD. Similar thing for Bitdefender - we should all just get licenses from the Philippines, unless there's some reason I'm missing that prevents us from doing that.