Hello Ian,
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We are sorry to know that you are getting notification about location exposed even though you have VPN in your device.
We'll certainly check and help you out.
The performance or privacy issues which are showing in AVG applications are not an actual issue but a campaign pop-up about AVG Secure VPN program and other AVG programs.
The issues listed can be fixed by those programs, so if you want to purchase those programs, please click on resolve now, it will be redirected to purchase page or if you do not wish to purchase it, just click on "skip for now' and skip those campaign pop-ups.
We have classified AVG products into protection, performance and privacy. AVG is well known for it's protection software but most of the user not aware of the other AVG Products which could be so helpful. In order to make aware of our other products and it's use, this feature is added as a campaign.
A lot of our customers benefitted through this service, if you would like to disable it, I can help you with that. Please follow the below steps to disable AVG offers: | AVG (https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlName=avg-antivirus-popup-notifications&q=popup&supportType=home)
If you have any queries, do let us know.
Thank you and keep us updated.
Why does AVG say my location is exposed when I already use a VPN? It's quite annoying part of the to have a big box telling me I need to buy AVG VPN when I don't.
Hello Ian,
Thank you for sharing us the screenshot. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused. This isn't the expected behavior. We will check and help you to resolve it.
In order to analyze the root cause, we request you to get connected with our additional support. An email instruction has been sent which will help you to get connected.
Thank you.
Thanks Abdul but it's not a pop up (it's on the app home tab) plus there is no option to "skip for now":
Hello Ian,
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We are sorry to know that you are getting notification about location exposed even though you have VPN in your device.
We'll certainly check and help you out.
The performance or privacy issues which are showing in AVG applications are not an actual issue but a campaign pop-up about AVG Secure VPN program and other AVG programs.
The issues listed can be fixed by those programs, so if you want to purchase those programs, please click on resolve now, it will be redirected to purchase page or if you do not wish to purchase it, just click on "skip for now' and skip those campaign pop-ups.
We have classified AVG products into protection, performance and privacy. AVG is well known for it's protection software but most of the user not aware of the other AVG Products which could be so helpful. In order to make aware of our other products and it's use, this feature is added as a campaign.
A lot of our customers benefitted through this service, if you would like to disable it, I can help you with that. Please follow the below steps to disable AVG offers: | AVG (https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?l=en&urlName=avg-antivirus-popup-notifications&q=popup&supportType=home)
If you have any queries, do let us know.
Thank you and keep us updated.