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The popular extensions were found collecting a lot more data on millions of users, including their browsing history.

SafePrice extensions display a small bar on e-commerce sites that alert users to better prices at other sites when shopping for certain products. The four extensions developed by Avast and its subsidiary AVG are:īoth Avast and AVG Online Security extension alert users to phishing, scam, and malicious sites when a user visits malicious sites.

“This add-on violates Mozilla’s add-on policy by collecting data without user disclosure or consent,” explained Mozilla.