Look into any category, country, or domain. Analyze it however you want: track what users searched for, how they interacted with a particular brand or product, and what they bought. Incredibly detailed clickstream data from 100 million global online shoppers and 20 million global app users. On their website, Jumpshot praises its “clickstream data” product: And indeed, that suddenly made perfect sense.
The amount of data collected here exceeds by far what would be considered necessary or appropriate even for the security extensions, for the shopping helpers this functionality isn’t justifiable at all.Īfter I published my article I got the hint to look at Jumpshot, a company acquired by Avast in 2013. While this article only names Avast Online Security and AVG Online Security extensions, the browser extensions Avast SafePrice and AVG SafePrice show the same behavior: they upload detailed browsing profiles of their users to uib.ff. A month ago I wrote about Avast browser extensions being essentially spyware.
