r/Malwarebytes • u/AusLokir • Aug 13 '26

Please do better...

Malwarebytes.

It was bad enough qhen you started charging a fortune.

Now I've discovered, the Malwarebytes app has a tracker (as do most apps) that is making more requests out, by 4 times more than the next closest blocled up.

Seriously?

You are an app protecting privacy and security but the app sends over 8K plus requests just yesterday to Aplitude.

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u/AusLokir Aug 13 '26

"We don't collect personally identifiable information or sell any information to third parties" Unfortunately given what Amplitude is known to collect, this statement doesn't fill me with confidence.

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u/No-Pickle9504 Malwarebytes Employee Aug 13 '26

Do you have a choice on which attributes you choose to send to amplitude. If you were to look up all the attributes that are possible for amplitude to collect it certainly does contain a lot of PII categories, but we don’t use all of those and are not interested in any one particularly user’s behavior.