Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG

Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by martin8412 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @02:43AM (#36734218)

That's the same story with all product comparison sites. It's obvious that in most cases, they've never actually used the product for more than some hours if at all. The description of the products are just a rewritten version of the manufacturer sales material.

The only way to get somewhat reliable recommendations was to append reddit to the search terms.

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by Given_47 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:10AM (#36734656)

Yea affiliate deals r abhorrent. And I wasn’t even aware of how high stakes it can be until this article:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by maccard on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:22AM (#36735044)

That's a great article, thanks for the link

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by dna_polymerase on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:19AM (#36735257)

I keep telling this to my parents. You can't trust product recommendations on the internet. It's all just affiliate bullshit.

Not a single credible page out there!

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by justinclift on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:51AM (#36735427)

Oh wow. Looking at the fortunes of the Casper place in the time since, Wikipedia has it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_Sleep

    On February 6, 2020, it went public at $12 per share, translating to a market value
    of $476 million ...

    On March 31, 2020, its stock dropped to $4.12 per share, translating to a market
    value of $163 million ...

    In April 2020, Casper announced the winding down of its European operations and laid
    off 21% of its staff ...

    In November 2021, Casper announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement
    to be acquired ...

    The transaction completed in January 2022 and Casper's stock was delisted from the
    New York Stock Exchange.

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by Given_47 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @03:58PM (#36740415)

Love it. And now that I think about it, I have stopped noticing the incessant Casper ads scattered around SF

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by bruce343434 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @04:30AM (#36734780)

There is plenty of astroturfing on Reddit.

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by martin8412 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @05:01AM (#36734942)

Absolutely. That has also gotten worse over time.

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Re:Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG by seanp2k2 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @06:41AM (#36735377)

The internet in general has just become one giant billboard / sales grift over the past decade and it’s really sad to see. I hate how much of the American economy is based on ads and marketing, just trying to force feed us pushes to buy buy buy until we’re broke and/or dead. There are better ways to live than this.

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