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Mozilla pulls Avast, AVG security add-ons over data collection

article published on 4 December, 2019

In a clear example of irony, Mozilla has pulled four add-ons from popular security firms for violating policies on data collection. The add-ons are developed by Avast and AVG, who are among the most popular providers of consumer-level security products across platforms. Mozilla removed two add-ons from each firm that protected consumers from dangerous websites and also from scams and ... [ read the full article ]

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6. December 2019 @ 20:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Mozilla really needs to get their ducks together with Firefox. Lately they have been keeping Malwarebytes very busy with I use the Firefox browser. All kinds of pop-ups, MalWare, and else rolling through.
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12. December 2019 @ 10:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by gDavid:
Mozilla really needs to get their ducks together with Firefox. Lately they have been keeping Malwarebytes very busy with I use the Firefox browser. All kinds of pop-ups, MalWare, and else rolling through.

I use water fox, scipt block, priacy badger and possum,popup blocker and forget me not, I only run the bare minimum of scripts to get a page to work, use as much in chrome as well.

I use kapersky and frankly it dose as well as MWB, since MWB went monthly subscription I been using them less, I'll pay 20 a year or 50 every 2 years for a version lock lifetime key anything more than that is highway robbery..since every lifetime key I buy is bad in a month now I stopped using WMB altogether.

Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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