New Technology : AVG Free Is Selling User Data, Moot Sells 4Chan…[Tech News Digest]

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AVG’s free version is monetized by selling user data, 4chan is sold to 2chan’s founder, a crippling Chrome bug is turned into a game, Apple updates WatchOS, and what happens when you watch every show. AVG Free Monetizes User Data Economists will tell you: there’s no free lunch. Yet if traffic to our site is any indication, a lot of you are searching for and downloading free antivirus programs. Which brings to mind an interesting question: how are free antivirus programs supposed to pay for themselves? AVG recently explained that they, in part, track anonymous user information and sell that data....

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