Avast's Shutdown of Jumpshot Will Harm the Web and the World

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Post by adamcarson » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

Avast's Shutdown of Jumpshot Will Harm the Web and the World
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Re: Avast's Shutdown of Jumpshot Will Harm the Web and the World

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Post by JohnFen » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 9:26 PM UTC

If everyone whose data was collected really did opt in as this article explains (I wouldn't know, as I don't use Avast products), then I agree that they didn't do anything wrong.

However, I don't think a great case was made that Jumpshot shutting down is actually harmful to the web and the world at large.

Re: Avast's Shutdown of Jumpshot Will Harm the Web and the World

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Post by JohnFen » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #2

If everyone whose data was collected really did opt in as this article explains (I wouldn't know, as I don't use Avast products), then I agree that they didn't do anything wrong. However, I don't think a great case was made that Jumpshot shutting down is actually harmful to the web and the world at large.

Ah, apparently most people did not opt in.

According to Vice, anyway, Avast only put that opt-in page into their AV product after they got caught spying thought their browser plugins (which led to the removal of those plugins from the Chrome and Firefox stores until they updated them to stop the spying).

So, I think that Avast still looks pretty dirty here.