Sunday, September 17, 2017
Smart business, nearly extinct
AVG automatically renewed its annual subscription payment, with this little blurb in the email:
Your subscription price is a change to the original 69.99 USD shown in the shopping cart during your initial purchase. With continual threats to security and safety online it’s important to stay one step ahead and safeguarding your online protection and privacy is vital. With AVG you have award winning protection and this increased investment goes towards continually improving our detection rates. We are constantly looking into new and more sophisticated ways to block malware and prevent hackers. From artificial intelligence to more advanced real time analysis, we consistently catch around 120 million incidents every single day to help you stay protected.When everyone else is jumping on the hate-hoax bandwagon, using RUSSIAN_HACKING and NAZI_HONKY_KKK_TRUMP_HITLER and ALT-RIGHT_HETS and CLIMATE_CHANGE as boogeypersons to scare you shitless, AVG simply states the facts in a neutral way. Stating the facts neutrally USED TO BE the normal way of doing business for any big outfit that WANTED TO HAVE CUSTOMERS. Big corporations USED TO WANT CUSTOMERS. Now most of them don't. The goal of most corporations is to EXTERMINATE THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS, because EXTERMINATION raises share value. AVG is a welcome old-fashioned exception to this bizarre evil trend. AVG has been providing good service for several years. Since I switched from Norton and McAfee, no viruses at all. And in exchange for the good service they want my money. I don't know how long AVG can hold onto this obsolete mode of pre-Soros capitalism, but I'm HAPPY that they are still holding, and I'm HAPPY to pay them for both the service and the neutrality. Later: I was curious to see why AVG is sane. I thought it was privately owned, but in fact it's a stock company listed on NASDAQ. Location is the explanation. AVG has always been in Prague, safely distant from the NYC and Silicon Valley brain diseases.
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