Goodbye CCleaner from a Pro user

CCleaner for Windows CCleaner Windows Suggestions
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The new version's active monitoring and the fact that control to turn it off deliberately does not work is completely unacceptable. I neither want nor need active monitoring so this is nothing but spyware.

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Fwiw the devs have said they hear our pain and will release 'a fix' in a few weeks.

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6 hours ago, Nergal said: 
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		Fwiw the devs have said they hear our pain and will release 'a fix' in a few weeks.
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Too little too late. The trust factor is gone. Whomever (manager) agreed to implement such a feature should be fired.

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I agree - plus the stupidity of not being able to close it from the system tray is weird. I uninstalled it, went back a version and blocked it from calling home in Windows Firewall.

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21 hours ago, suchashame said: 
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		blocked it from calling home in Windows Firewall.  
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Here's instructions on how to block an app in Windows Firewall:

https://www.howtogeek.com/227093/how-to-block-an-application-from-accessing-the-internet-with-windows-firewall/

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19 minutes ago, Andavari said: 
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		Here's instructions on how to block an app in Windows Firewall:

https://www.howtogeek.com/227093/how-to-block-an-application-from-accessing-the-internet-with-windows-firewall/


Why did you post this quoting my post?

I know how to block things in Windows Firewall - didn't I say - I have blocked it - not how do you block it.

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It was for people who don't know how to block an app with an outgoing connection.

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Same here. I paid for that crap-cleaner stuff and now it's being mutated to spyware. Never again, sorry Avast. Even if you patch that telemetry garbage out of your code in a future release, the trust factor is gone.