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<blockquote data-quote="entropy" data-source="post: 2521841" data-attributes="member: 130262"><p>During my college days, Avast had great respect among my peers for it being light weight and free. Those were the days when people would gobble up anything when offered for free. It's always risky to let an application have unrestricted access to the system's disk data and network as it's almost impossible to tell (unless the user decides to do some sleuthing themself) what data is being sent while these applications performs 'call home'. Some are harmless and just anonymized diagnostic info required for development of the product itself, where as some are downright violations of privacy such as transmission of info regarding the connected network, file system indexes, and so on. While data has become essential for these corporation to continue to exist, it would be better if they complied to the existing frameworks. Unless, it's an indie, open source pet project with no future plans or monetary ambitions, there is no such thing as free! As the internet saying among the privacy communities go "If something is free, you are the product".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="entropy, post: 2521841, member: 130262"] During my college days, Avast had great respect among my peers for it being light weight and free. Those were the days when people would gobble up anything when offered for free. It's always risky to let an application have unrestricted access to the system's disk data and network as it's almost impossible to tell (unless the user decides to do some sleuthing themself) what data is being sent while these applications performs 'call home'. Some are harmless and just anonymized diagnostic info required for development of the product itself, where as some are downright violations of privacy such as transmission of info regarding the connected network, file system indexes, and so on. While data has become essential for these corporation to continue to exist, it would be better if they complied to the existing frameworks. Unless, it's an indie, open source pet project with no future plans or monetary ambitions, there is no such thing as free! As the internet saying among the privacy communities go "If something is free, you are the product". [/QUOTE]
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