What is Avast Online Security & Privacy?
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Secure your Mozilla Firefox browser against real-time online threats, trackers, and scams.
Browse with confidence using Avast Online Security & Privacy. We’ll check every site you visit, from Facebook to your bank, so nothing puts you or your data at risk. Join a growing community of 400 million Avast users.
• Identify and block phishing sites trying to steal your data. • Quickly check the risk rating of any website just by hovering over the link. • Block invasive tracking cookies that collect data on your browsing activities. • Block online advertising and remove your details from advertisers’ databases. • Optimize your privacy preferences and settings across your favorite online platforms. • Automatically ask sites to stop tracking you and selling your data. Learn more at https://globalprivacycontrol.org.
The data we collect includes: • URL - to check if the website is safe or not • Usage data - to measure the user’s behavior on the interface and understand how the user interacts with the extension • Internal extension identifier (GUID) - to distinguish unique malware hits, to measure product telemetry and calculate aggregated statistics
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- Used to have good performance and reliability
- User satisfaction with the overall Avast security software
- End of support for Firefox
- Limited functionality with search engines
- Not effective with DuckDuckGo
- Lack of comprehensive scanning results
- Ending support for the Firefox extension
- Limited search engine compatibility
- Previous reliability of Avast software
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Risk impact
Avast Online Security & Privacy requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Avast Online Security & Privacy has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.