Jumpshot
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Jumpshot supplied analytics based on browsing data provided by its parent Avast. The business was a data-services subsidiary, not the antivirus product itself.
02 / Jumpshot FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
Reporting exposed the collection and sale of browsing information. Avast said the arrangement undermined user trust and conflicted with its privacy mission, stopped supplying data and decided to wind down the subsidiary. This was a parent-company decision, not evidence that all Avast products closed.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Parent announced data-service wind-down
On 30 January Avast announced that data provision would stop and Jumpshot would be wound down; its core security products were unaffected.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
Material for this section is being gathered and checked. It will appear here once ready.
Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
Browsing-data practices exposed
- 02
Parent identified damage to user trust
- 03
Avast stopped data provision
- 04
Jumpshot wind-down announced