

With the Privacy Advisor feature within AOSP, users are guided straight to important privacy settings on their favorite websites and offered simple guidance to protect their personal information."ĪOSP includes the following set of security and privacy features: Often, these options are buried deep, or people are unsure where to look in order to change them.

"At the same time, we see an opportunity to meet the needs of people frustrated by the complexity of websites and social media privacy settings and configurations.
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With AOSP, we want to give people free digital protection without inconveniencing them by requesting changes to their preferences or browsing habits," said Chandler Givens, Head of Consumer Privacy at Avast. "Our ambition is to ensure that everyone has effective protection for life online. In addition, AOSP encourages users to regain control of the data they share online via Global Privacy Control (GPC), an integrated service that, in one step, automatically communicates the user's privacy preferences to any website a user visits that's participating in the GPC initiative. AOSP provides effective anti-tracking, advertising opt-out and cloud-based phishing protection to improve detection speeds. The software, renamed from Avast Online Security to Avast Online Security & Privacy (AOSP), combines effective online protection with Avast's latest Privacy Advisor, providing automated contextual guidance to help people optimise their privacy settings across popular websites and services.ĪOSP is a convenient standalone starter pack for privacy protection, and also complements Avast Free Antivirus or Avast One. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Avast (LSE:AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy, has upgraded its free browser extension with an expanded feature set and a new design to provide digital protection across all major browsers.
