It seems that Avast managed to settle the lawsuits related to their data abuse in both US and UK. While in the former they agreed to pay a fairly moderate fine, UK let them off the hook even easier. They are offering two years of free software to eligible UK users which is, quite frankly, a joke. It costs Avast exactly nothing, it allows them to email past users on a legal basis and gives them a chance to win them back. Really, who agreed to that?

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