How Much Money Avast Makes by Collecting and Selling User Data

Antivirus and security firm Avast has made the headlines on several occasions lately, and it’s not because of its security software, but rather due to the privacy practices that the company embraced going forward.

The developer of Adblock Plus, one of the most popular ad blockers for the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, revealed earlier this year that extensions developed by Avast collected user data, such as website address, page title, browser and version, operating system, and more.

Wladimir Palant shared more findings in early December when he requested Mozilla and Google to ban Avast’s extensions from their add-on stores, something that eventually happened in the case of ...