9 hours ago, uuu said:<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> Dear Paul Piriform. First change your name you should be Paul Avast, be honest. Then you can save the Piriform name you paid so much for. If you continue to pose as Paul Piriform, people will dislike Piriform. Be Paul Avast and you can save face. </p> </div>
well to be honest, he lost that name too.
Also Avast is gonna be marked as bad in the books from now on.
There is nothing to be saved.
I've registered here for no other reason than to say: I'm off. With the latest release and the behaviour that has been deliberatly incorporated I have uninstalled CCleaner Pro. As others have stated, for a program originally called Crap Cleaner to introduce Crap is unforgiveable and you have simply lost my trust.
Goodbye.
I also came here to tell you CCleaner is now uninstalled after many years. Keep your spyware
https://betanews.com/2018/08/01/do-not-install-the-latest-version-of-ccleaner/
Just wanted to inform you that I never accept this sneaky attack on my privacy. I don't believe your statements.
I have uninstalled CCleaner and will tell everyone in my social media sphere about your practices. Additionally I work in the IT department of a medium sized company. I will ensure that no more products from Avast will be bought and used.
Well said, CCleaner users are Power Users. The degree level of pulling a con on a wise guy is much more difficult. If fact impossible, after one wise guy who owns a Windows Review Site, snitched.
Paul Piriform -real name "Paul Avast", thought he could trick Power Users, he did right in this thread, and then failed as Admin, to edit his sweet talk post. "Paul Avast" did't like my advice to save face he could still pull of the con on 66% if he re-adds back the uncheck boxes in 24 hours. Failed to hit the deadline. Paul your in a world of hurt.
I have good news Mark Zuckerberg, will buy Avast for pennies on the dollar, now that your company has lost all creditable value. The damage is done, you ruined your investment & the Piriform name. This is no joke, can you imagine Mark Zuckerberg being your savior, telling the public what you did is wrong and as a service to the Public he is fixing you and adding Avast Free & CCleaner Free for all Facebook & Instagram Platforms imbedded . He really needs your product. Can you submit my commission please?
Paul did you find what big name review site has exposed you? Better hurry or somebody will post it right in your Forums. Somebody also will write to CBS's 60 Minutes, amongst others. 60 Minutes has featured stories on analytics, they really think these stories are important to the world, letting people know about data thieves.
I'm your friend. You OK buddy, you still working or did Avast say you can't post anymore?
Avast bought Piriform & AVG.
Rein it in now uuu will you.
We get the picture.
Just for info, links about CCleaner from ghacks and betanews have already been posted on this forum so that is old news
Sorry about that hazelnut. For those that don't know Hazelnut was here long before the Avast purchase, and Volunteers for free.
Yep Martin figured it out, "Paul Avast", he gets the credit as the first to world wide post, wise guy right? Now were up to two sites and more coming.
Question Paul Piriform: Why do you release versions, example: 543, 544, 545 & Mac 115 that don't work? If you run the program twice you'll know & see it does not work? You can't release versions that don't work since Martin snitched you. Cool if you get non-wise guys (66%) data and sell it, they are the careless fools you want as free loaders who don't buy your Pro Versions.
uuu ..LAST WARNING.
Just stay calm... we heard you already, no need to go into overdrive.
So,
i have only one question about that. What is with the European People? We have here the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
With that regulation, all options for data transfers or other s**t like that must be by default OFF and not ON so users can OPT-IN and not OPT-OUT if they want.
U can get sued with that, so change that or the next step, i think u now what happen!
best regards
GDPR is for personaly indentifiable material. The developers have said there is no P.I.M collected.
Maybe but that's not the point!
ALL and that means ALL data collection must be OFF by default and the user have the choice to OPT-IN or not
3 hours ago, Nergal said:<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> GDPR is for personaly indentifiable material. The developers have said there is no P.I.M collected. </p> </div>
That's just PR talk... Don't fall for the "it's anonymous so don't worry guys!" line.
Quote<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> Armed with only the names and locations of shops where purchases took place, and the approximate dates and purchase amounts, De Montjoye was able to identify 94% of people by looking at just three transactions. </p> </div>
I have been using CC cleaner on and off for the last 8 years. This new update you guys went full-retard.
Never go full retard. I upgraded to find out, I couldn't even close the program out without using task manager.
Who's idea was this? They just ruined your product reputation. Uninstalled, and will be steering clear of ALL avast products and CC cleaner versions.
Trust = Gone.
Me=Gone.
PS, you can google alternatives to CC cleaner, you will find 10 good ones.
Peace, & <span style="color:#f39c12;">[redacted - we don't condone that language here, not even hidden behind asterisks]</span>
Thank you all for your continued feedback (positive and negative, it all helps). I wanted to give a quick progress update on what we're doing. We’re currently working on separating out cleaning functionality from analytics reporting and offering more user control options which will be remembered when CCleaner is closed. We’re also creating a factsheet to share which will outline the data we collect, for which purposes and how it is processed.
Today we have removed v5.45 and reverted to v5.44 as the main download for CCleaner while we work on a new version with several key improvements. You can grab version 5.44 from one of the links below:
(File hashes here: https://forum.piriform.com/topic/52095-ccleaner-v5446575/)
Software Changes
As stated before, we'll split cleaning alerts (which don't send any data) from UI trend data (which is anonymous and only there to measure the user experience) and provide a separate setting for each in the user preferences. Some of these features run as a separate process from the UI: we'll restore visibility of this in the notifications area, and you'll be able to close it down from that icon menu as before.
We understand the importance of this to you all. This work is our number 1 priority and we are taking the time to get it right in the next release. There are numerous changes required, so that does mean it will take weeks, not days. While we work on this, we have removed version 5.45 and reinstated version 5.44.
Just stop trying.. you're done for
1 hour ago, Stephen Piriform said:<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> We’re also creating a factsheet to share which will outline the data we collect, for which purposes and how it is processed. </p> </div>
I think that because of the attrocious way this has been implemented and handled up to now that it will need to be more than just an 'outline'.
I note that Piriform is registered with the Information Commissioners Office in the UK. (Oddly Avast does not seem to be, but AVG is).
Registration with the ICO is a legal requirement <strong>only</strong> if you are processing <strong>personal</strong> data.
Quote<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> The Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018 requires every organisation that processes personal information to pay a fee to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), unless they are exempt. Failure to do so will result in a fixed penalty. </p> </div>
After being af long year fan and user off free version and later year paid subscriber, all known installations of CCleaner is now un-installed. It was a great program until you became facebook/google/apple
Since the Aavast takeover, I always read the Release Notes for the latest version before updating manually.
I smelled a very large and unpleasant 'rat' with v5.45.. so chose to remain on v5.44 anyway.
WHY does corporate greed culture still continue over-ride trust, truth and honesty?
~ Well Done People!
9 hours ago, Stephen Piriform said:<div class="ipsQuote_contents"> <p> Thank you all for your continued feedback (positive and negative, it all helps). I wanted to give a quick progress update on what we're doing. We’re currently working on separating out cleaning functionality from analytics reporting and offering more user control options which will be remembered when CCleaner is closed. We’re also creating a factsheet to share which will outline the data we collect, for which purposes and how it is processed. </p> <p> Today we have removed v5.45 and reverted to v5.44 as the main download for CCleaner while we work on a new version with several key improvements. You can grab version 5.44 from one of the links below: </p> <ul><li> <strong>v5.44 Free edition: </strong><a href="https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccfree" rel="external nofollow">https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccfree</a> </li> <li> <strong>v5.44 Professional edition:</strong> <a href="https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccpro" rel="external nofollow">https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccpro</a> </li> <li> <strong>v5.44 Business Edition:</strong> <a href="https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccbe" rel="external nofollow">https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccbe</a> (32-bit installer) </li> <li> <strong>v5.44 Technician Edition:</strong> <a href="https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccte" rel="external nofollow">https://www.ccleaner.com/go/get_ccte</a> </li> </ul><p> (File hashes here: <a href="<___base_url___>/topic/52095-ccleaner-v5446575/" rel="">https://forum.piriform.com/topic/52095-ccleaner-v5446575/</a>) </p> <p> <span style="font-size:18px;">Software Changes</span> </p> <p> As stated before, we'll split cleaning alerts (which don't send any data) from UI trend data (which is anonymous and only there to measure the user experience) and provide a separate setting for each in the user preferences. Some of these features run as a separate process from the UI: we'll restore visibility of this in the notifications area, and you'll be able to close it down from that icon menu as before. </p> <p> We understand the importance of this to you all. This work is our number 1 priority and we are taking the time to get it right in the next release. There are numerous changes required, so that does mean it will take weeks, not days. While we work on this, we have removed version 5.45 and reinstated version 5.44. </p> </div>
Sorry, but it's too late. The trust will never come back.
it is a total shame since avast buy ccleaner goes from bad to worse and the owner of avast is insane trying to force us into his antivirus knowing that his antivirus is one of the worst that there is for that reason he precedes the users putting adware to his installers and now got into privacy until when we will allow this to be violated our rights as users if they continue like this will be to put a class action lawsuit to avast so that it does not implement these dirty tricks against the users.