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For example, imagine that you have a website that offers a free newsletter. With that level of detail, it wouldnвЂ™t be too hard to attach a personвЂ™s identity to a device ID. The data that was being collected was extremely detailed, right down to every click the user made, and the exact millisecond that they clicked. That is, until you learn that every data record also includes a unique device ID, which persists until the user uninstalls the Avast antivirus from that device. While we really donвЂ™t like the idea of anyone selling user data like this, it doesnвЂ™t sound like the data can be used to personally identify anyone. The data that was collected did not include the userвЂ™s name, email address, or IP address. The data is fully de-identified and aggregated and cannot be used to personally identify or target you. In 2019, privacy experts discovered that Avast was harvesting user data through their antivirus products, then selling that data to third parties. Here are some not-so-great things you should know about Avast Secureline VPN: Avast caught selling user data collected through their antivirus products

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See our list of the best torrent VPNs if you want to consider other options with better P2P support. At the time of this Avast VPN review, this was the list of P2P-capable server locations: SecureLine does support P2P file sharing (torrenting) in its network, but only on a limited number of servers. You also will not be able to use Avast VPN on gaming systems, routers, and more. For example, they do not have a dedicated app in the Amazon store if you want to use a VPN for Firestick. Note: In comparison to other leading VPNs, Avast SecureLine does not offer much support for less-popular devices and operating systems. While it may add some convenience, there is not much else that VPN browser extensions offer, as we explained in our guide on the best VPNs for Chrome. These extensions add WebRTC leak protection to the VPNвЂ™s capabilities, but other than that simply serve as a way to control the VPN from within the browser window. Your subscription also includes browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome. This is about average in the industry, and what we see with most other VPNs. Subscriptions are available for a single device or for 5 simultaneous devices. You can also use a VPN on Apple TV, but this will usually require using a router.

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SecureLine can even protect your Smart TV if it runs Android TV.

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Support for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android operating systemsДЄ subscription to Avast SecureLine VPN allows you to install the product on devices running the following operating systems: Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. If you want to use WireGuard, two great options for this are NordVPN and Surfshark. There is currently no support for the WireGuard VPN protocol, IKEv2, or any other protocols. In keeping with this VPNвЂ™s ease-of-use approach, there are no real options to adjust when it comes to privacy and security features. Strong privacy and security featuresДЄvast SecureLine VPN uses strong, industry-standard privacy and security features.

It too passed the leak tests with no problems. The IP address does indeed correspond to Miami, FL. It turns out that the database that uses to map an IP address to a physical location, is not 100% accurate. Although you can see in the VPN window on the left that I am connected to a server in Miami, USA, on the right is claiming the IP address if the server I am connected to is in Italy. Note: You might have noticed something odd in the image above. SecureLine VPN doesnвЂ™t support IPv6, so of course that test will fail. Look on the right and you will see that my virtual IP address is the one that is seeing.ДonвЂ™t worry about the IPv6 вЂњerrorвЂќ in the preceding image. If you look closely on the left (circled in red), you can see my Virtual IP address (at the time I was writing this).

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The following image shows the Windows VPN in action. The VPN protects against DNS leaks by forcing DNS requests to go to the VPNвЂ™s own DNS servers through the encrypted VPN tunnel. The Avast SecureLine VPN apps didnвЂ™t show any problems: no leaks, no crashes. We ran the SecureLine VPN through our standard set of VPN tests, looking for things that didnвЂ™t work right. As you can see in the image above, the optimal location the VPN selected was the Miami, USA server location from among 57 possible locations.