> But before it lands on Avast servers, the data is stripped of anything that might expose an individual’s identity, such as a name in the URL, as when a Facebook user is logged in.
How would this technically work? I can see this only if you manually created rules for a website like Facebook. How could it know, besides some crude heuristics, that the url:
It's complete bullshit, provably so. This is suggesting that the data is being stripped of anything related to your identify locally, before being sent to the server. But that's not the case, nothing is being removed, and anybody can use Developer Tools to see it.
And as to anonymization on the server side, I haven't seen any evidence that it exists and so far statements by insiders seem to confirm that there is none. The privacy policy merely promises pseudonymization meaning that Avast can keep the data as it is. Technically speaking, user's name isn't sent and their user identifier is a pseudonym, so it already satisfies the requirements.
How would this technically work? I can see this only if you manually created rules for a website like Facebook. How could it know, besides some crude heuristics, that the url:
contained my name and user id?