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> Remember HN’s reaction Who is HN? Is you HN? Did you add your thoughts about Avast and the acquisition of the browser extension? If you found a common opin
by exodust 4y ago
> Remember HN’s reaction
Who is HN? Is you HN?
Did you add your thoughts about Avast and the acquisition of the browser extension?
If you found a common opinion on that topic, perhaps it's because data harvesting and selling user data is a common pattern associated with similar acquisitions. It's not like people latch onto gloomy conspiracies pulled from the nearest echo chamber, repeating them in unison, swaying to the beat of an HN drum. Is that what you're suggesting?
- behnamoh 4y agoI'm only part of HN. No I did not write about Avast takeover of the extension; I simply deleted the extension on my own machine. At the end of the day, "data harvesting and selling user data" is done by programmers. I find it unacceptable that some do it and then come to HN to complain about other people's work.
- exodust 4y agoYou're making a huge assumption and generalization that "developers do it, then complain about it". What evidence do you have for this? Sounds to me like you're making things up, then broadly accusing people of those things you made up.