UBLOCK ORIGIN - FIRST TIME BLOCKED

[60GigaHertz]

I am a Windows7 hold out running Epic, Vivaldi, and Seamonkey browsers  There are millions of us who do not want to use any op sys after Windows7 because of the built in, unethical and unwanted data collection without remuneration.

I run CCleaner (without the PC optimization) every single time I leave the internet - for about 8 years now.  No issues unless I paid for the software.  Then it errored out completely... but that was years ago.  

Last night I got the CCleaner needs to update pop-up box.  So, this morning I tried to go to www.piriform.com to start a re-download from the website.  I do this because the CCleaner updates don't work when I do it from the "Update Now" alerting program prompt.  When I tried to go to www.piriform.com - all I got was www.ccleaner.com... no more www.piriform.com.

When I clicked on the download free CCleaner icon - I got a full screen error message from UBlock Origin telling me it was stopping an unwanted tracker.  Why would CCleaner need to track me??  I just tried to re-create it and I couldn't - so maybe a cookie has been downloaded on my machine?

Just thought you should know.  If there's a next time I will get screen shots.

[nukecad]

The '.piriform' webpages have been gradually changing to '.ccleaner' over the past few years, and have now mostly gone.

(All the 'support.piriform.com' documentation pages no longer work, they have been replaced with 'support.ccleaner.com' documentation)

If you try to reach the builds page through the old 'www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds' link it should redirect you to the correct page.

If you still have the old piriform.com page bookmarked then you should change the bookmark target to: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds

To check I have just successfully downloaded each of the installers from that page.

Why your uBlock threw a block I can't say for sure, but sometimes AV's and blockers take time to recognise a new CCleaner version and so will block them as being unknown for a while when first released. They will give various reasons for the block - because they don't know what it is they guess.
(It used to happen quit a bit during covid when some AV/blocker staff were slower than usual to update their definitions and whitelists).

[Andavari]

My install of uBlock Origin for Firefox doesn't block "https://www.ccleaner.com" or "https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/builds". Why your install of uBlock Origin blocked it I can only guess it was something to do with the redirection from Piriform.com to CCleaner.com.

[nukecad]

2 hours ago, 60GigaHertz said:

When I clicked on the download free CCleaner icon - I got a full screen error message from UBlock Origin ........

It seems it was the download, or download link, that it was blocking,

I'd just put it down as one of those odd glitches that happen and you'll never quite know why it happened.