Holiday Season Online Privacy Recipe

Make delicious sense of online cookies with Avast and get two signature holiday cookie recipes from chef Carla Hall.
Aggressive advertisers can use them to track your every move online and sell your information.
So now you know which cookies to accept - and which ones need to stay on the table.
Avast's recipe for online privacy Assemble your tools.
When you bake, the first step is to set out your tools.
When you stay safe online, you use our handy browser extension, Avast Online Security & Privacy, to tell websites what you are willing to share, stopping the all-you-can-eat buffet of your data.
It will even guide you through a refresh of your privacy settings on social media.
Carla's Linzer tortes wouldn't be so delicious without the cranberry.
With the award-winning Avast One, the signature ingredient is privacy.
Avast gives you end-to-end privacy for all your communications and monitors the internet for risks to your personal information.
The icing on top of your privacy recipe this holiday season is virus protection.
Just read the label: Avast One also contains one of the industry's leading virus protections for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices.
Carla also was kind enough to share two Carla Hall signature bakes with us.
You don't have to be a trained chef to make these cookies.
With Avast, you don't have to be a tech expert to be safe online.
Avast might not be as old as your grandmother's secret recipe, but we have been protecting people on the internet since it was invented over 30 years ago.
We believe that people should be free to explore their potential online, without feeling exploited.
That's why we've made our flagship security and privacy products available to people for free for over 20 years.
We have more than 430 million customers around the world and are PC Magazine and PC World's Editors Choice for best security and privacy products.
So remember: Accept only the best cookies this holiday season.


This Cyber News was published on blog.avast.com. Publication date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:43:07 +0000


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