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Avast's AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping

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AntiTrack acts as a man-in-the-middle between your browser and the site you're connecting to. If that site, or one it uses, is malicious and AntiTrack has downgraded your connection to TLS1.0, you're susceptible to attacks like POODLE.

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