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#Stop avast browser extension from showing number in icon software#

#Stop avast browser extension from showing number in icon software#

Millions of people are being tracked this way and they don’t have a clue.Īre we officially calling it spyware? Well… it’s not quite that simple. Wikipedia defines spyware as “software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer’s consent”. That doesn’t mean that all software that gathers data is necessarily spyware, and it doesn’t mean that all software that sends data back to their servers is necessarily spyware.īut when the developer of an extension goes out of their way to hide the fact that every single page you visit is being stored and sent to a corporation that pays them for that data while burying it in the settings as “anonymous usage statistics”, there is a problem, at least.

Some of these add-ons are also injecting ads into the pages that you visit, and Google specifically allows this for some reason as long as it is “clearly disclosed”.

Browser add-ons for Chrome, Firefox, and probably other browsers are tracking every single page you visit and sending that data back to a third-party company that pays them for your information.

But the little-known and much more important fact is that your extensions are spying on you and selling your browsing history to shady corporations. The internet exploded Friday with the news that Google Chrome extensions are being sold and injected with adware.