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Avast Free Antivirus joins fray against Trump... Just Wow!
Sighlass:
Let me start off saying I am not one for writing, my wife is far more competent in such matters, but I wanted to convoy what happened to me today that surprised me.
I use a free antivirus program called "Avast", it is one of the bigger programs for protecting your computer used on the internet, and in my opinion it does a fine job. But being free you get "pop-ups" on occasion that remind you that their paid version is so much better and to consider renting a year's expanded coverage. That is fine, it is capitalism.
But today I got a surprise, my "pop-up" was a link to an anti-Trump news article. I was quite surprised to see Avast blatantly stick it's finger in politics for progressives.
Here is the link the "pop-up" linked to. It does not contain any virus (clean link) but you can read for yourself just how one sided this article was. You have to remember I am not a Trumpbot, never even came close, but I surely didn't expect an antivirus company to start pushing this liberal crap on me. I may not of voted for him, but that does not mean I can't see when he is being trashed beyond what is normal.
https://www.the-parallax.com/2017/01/16/kasparov-trump-putin-fake-news/?utm_source=parallax&utm_campaign=q1parallax17&utm_medium=toaster-infoad&utm_content=Article-1-Trump
Now this article is a "fake news" article about "fake news". OTWs republicans read fake news and we need you to only read our news and call their news fake. It is basically BS. But one has to remember, Avast (since it bought AVG) has over 400 million people it just spammed. News organizations drool over that amount of power. It certainly is not to be taken lightly.
Anyhoo, once again I am not a writer, but this ticked me off. Screw you Avast, take your politics out of antivirus programs. It does not behoove you.
Wingnut:
I use the "Free" Avast. Had three Pop-ups today. None like that. Just the usual.
We blocked x number of virus world wide today...
You puter needs a clean up.
and one malware warning and block from an image linked to a porn site on a google search.
Oceander:
If I see something like that I'll certainly reconsider using it.
endicom:
--- Quote from: Sighlass on January 17, 2017, 07:24:44 pm ---Let me start off saying I am not one for writing, my wife is far more competent in such matters, but I wanted to convoy what happened to me today that surprised me.
I use a free antivirus program called "Avast", it is one of the bigger programs for protecting your computer used on the internet, and in my opinion it does a fine job. But being free you get "pop-ups" on occasion that remind you that their paid version is so much better and to consider renting a year's expanded coverage. That is fine, it is capitalism.
But today I got a surprise, my "pop-up" was a link to an anti-Trump news article. I was quite surprised to see Avast blatantly stick it's finger in politics for progressives.
Here is the link the "pop-up" linked to. It does not contain any virus (clean link) but you can read for yourself just how one sided this article was. You have to remember I am not a Trumpbot, never even came close, but I surely didn't expect an antivirus company to start pushing this liberal crap on me. I may not of voted for him, but that does not mean I can't see when he is being trashed beyond what is normal.
https://www.the-parallax.com/2017/01/16/kasparov-trump-putin-fake-news/?utm_source=parallax&utm_campaign=q1parallax17&utm_medium=toaster-infoad&utm_content=Article-1-Trump
Now this article is a "fake news" article about "fake news". OTWs republicans read fake news and we need you to only read our news and call their news fake. It is basically BS. But one has to remember, Avast (since it bought AVG) has over 400 million people it just spammed. News organizations drool over that amount of power. It certainly is not to be taken lightly.
Anyhoo, once again I am not a writer, but this ticked me off. Screw you Avast, take your politics out of antivirus programs. It does not behoove you.
--- End quote ---
That's probably not Avast's doing. Avast takes money from a third party that hosts ads from who pays them. Probably.
Cripplecreek:
Guess I just don't get what the issue is.
What I'm seeing isn't news at all but Gary Kasparov's opinion which he's entitled to, however nearly all media both for and against Trump is pure opinion now anyway so its all "fake news". In this case I happen to agree with Kasparov about the dangers of misinformation used to discredit real info. Its nothing new. Cass Sunstein wrote a paper at Columbia university about the value of conspiracy theories and misinformation.
After all, I see the Trumpers passing around a story from Alex Jones claiming that Roger Stone was poisoned with Polonium despite the obvious problems with such a claim.
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