They check where're your surfing, and even transmit full URLs (including parameters) from https session (Avast+AVG are named for that). Part of the "safe browsing" feature. Article doesn't say what they do with such data (so "selling it to 3rd party" is not explicitly mentioned).
But what do they do with those data? Heise is no Boulevard magazin. If they'd thought it legit, they'd titled it differently.
@DanHulme Yepp, sorry for that – I remembered incorrectly. That's why I checked as soon as I had access to the original article again, and updated it here. Unfortunately I was no longer able to edit or remove it.
@BryanDenny I need a little modification to one of my chat messages. Wrongly "quoted" out of my head, it's more than a little mis-leading (though I corrected it with a later chat-message).
Can you remove the part starting with "selling", and make that "spying on" – which is what the article really says?
Not that I want to "hide my error" (feel free to blame me for that), but someone stopping to read at that point might spread wrong rumors. If you feel better just "striking" the part (for context), that would be fine as well.
@DanHulme just crossed... striking should be fine, though? I just want to avoid possible "wrong rumors".
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