> But before it lands on Avast servers, the data is stripped of anything that might expose an individual’s identity, such as a name in the URL, as when a Facebook user is logged in.
How would this technically work? I can see this only if you manually created rules for a website like Facebook. How could it know, besides some crude heuristics, that the url:
example.com/user-profiles/bick-nowstrom?u_idx=556677