“Tracking tab and window identifiers as well as your actions allows Avast to create a nearly precise reconstruction of your browsing behavior: how many tabs do you have open, what websites do you visit and when, how much time do you spend reading/watching the contents, what do you click there and when do you switch to another tab. This is probably because when users download Avast or AVG antivirus on their PCs, their respective add-ons are automatically downloaded on the browsers of the users.Īvast and AVG Extensions were designed to caution users about accessing a malicious or phishing website while SafePrice extensions help online shoppers know about best offers, price comparisons, travel deals, and discount coupons from various sites.
Most people do not even bother remembering that they downloaded or installed these extensions. If any of the four extensions offered by Avast and its subsidiary AVG are installed in your Firefox or Chrome browser, you should disable or remove them as quickly as possible.
Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, AVG SafePrice are four commonly browser extensions that are caught accumulating much more data from its millions of users than they intend to.
