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Scea91 on Jan 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Avast caught selling user data

To people saying that this is obvious because it is free so customer is the product.

In this case Avast made only 5-10 % of revenue this way. The rest is made through various micro-transactions etc. IIRC.

gregd on Jan 30, 2020 [–]

They also didn't magically disable the data collection once you became a paying customer.

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