Was this recommendation meant for me or for the number of people so far that I have been starting to finally recommend back to Avast which would inevitably continue to grow if these people turn out pleased with the results. I ask this because these are the people who have been concerned about the issue at hand just as much or more than I have actually. And yes, the subject has certainly been covered ad nauseam no doubt but then as you can see topics on this specific subject continue to show up on the board nevertheless so one would have to conclude that the topic must be a user concern at some level beyond my opinion even if you’re not willing to admit it. And of course the only reason I even posted was because as we can see there was once again another one of these topics on the first page (not my topic mind you) discussing the subject so I thought I’d chime in since I’ve noticed positive results from Avast and have as a result started to once again recommend Avast. I understand you don’t care for me or my style, but that’s not nearly as important as the reputation of Avast which you might consider to be more important than your personal animus toward any one poster that you might dismiss as irrelevant. And let me say on the subject of a reputation, there is no doubt that Avast has engendered a negative reputation regarding ads in recent years as witnessed by numerous comparison reviews on the subject of AV software. If you like I can provide a number of links to reviews that all mention the frequency of Avast ads as compared to other AV programs which we would have to logically assume must be something that users actually do take into consideration when deciding upon what AV to use regardless of your seemingly supercilious attitude that all that really matters is your opinion it’s not an issue when the fact of the matter is opinions on this topic are purely subjective in nature. But then if I provided these links this would require you to have to read far more than you apparently care to, so I wouldn’t want to burden you with that. 
Frankly it is the less than helpful posts such as this that is the reason why to a large extent I tend to stay away from this forum. I assure you the boards where I am a global moderator would not put up with similar types of attitudes from our moderators, but then this board as stated in your own succinct vernacular “is what it is” as you profoundly put it. ;D Since it always seems that when I occasionally return to this board from time to time and ultimately often find topics on the first page on this same subject it makes me wonder if you might tend to get tired of giving this ever so insightful recommendation. :