A Message from Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek

"I realize the recent news about Jumpshot has hurt the feelings of many of you"

_Seriously?_ "hurt the feelings"?

Get fucked Vicek... And fire your whole comms team before you do.

"Respectfully yours,"

bigiain

"During all those years, both Avast and Jumpshot acted fully within legal bounds"

Those are not the words of a leader who recognizes their mistakes. This whole "apology" reads to me as:

"We are sorry we got caught and now we will sacrifice a bunch of low level staff to appease you."

How about rather than that, the CEO and board members/ leadership who approved of this business take real responsibility and step down without golden parachutes.

"For these reasons, I – together with our board of directors – have decided to terminate the Jumpshot data collection and wind down Jumpshot’s operations, with immediate effect."

This is great, but it took public ousting to get this into the light. Should have NEVER happened in the first place. Priorities and values are fubar imho.