# The future of ZacTax, software spies, and zipper merges

**Date:** 2020-02-10
**Topics:** traffic, spyware
**URL:** https://zactax.com/blog/2020/02/whats-new-with-zac

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In this episode of ZacCast, we talk about the future of ZacTax and our company, Eight20 Consulting. We also talk about software spying and why we wanted to remove third-party tracking software from ZacTax. And we wrap up with a discussion about the ever controversial "zipper merge."


**Links**

- **[ZacTax](https://www.zactax.com/)**
- **[Avast is tracking you](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation)**
- **[Ring is tracking you](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers)**
- **[Zipper merging is awesome](http://www.dot.state.mn.us/zippermerge/)**