Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox both prohibited the practice of collecting personal and private details of the users. He concluded in his report that both of the extensions were collecting information like the user’s browsing history and data that has nothing to do with their operations. Wladimir has presented his report after analyzing and inspecting Avast Online Security and AVG Online Security extensions in October this year. Mozilla has taken the decision of removing the above-mentioned extensions based on a report by Wladimir Palant, who has created the Ad-block and Ad-block plus extension.
Out of them, Avast and AVG online security was developed for notifying malicious and suspicious websites to the users while the other two extensions show details of online shopping, quoting and comparing prices, grabbing best deals and discounts.
These extensions which are now forbidden by Firefox are Avast Online Security, AVG Online Security, Avast SafePrice, and AVG SafePrice.s Mozilla Firefox, one of the widely used web browsers, has made a strong decision to take down the four security extensions of Avast and AVG because these extensions were collecting excessive user data and browsing history.
