GET YOUR F$%^&*$ ADVERTISING OFF MY COMPUTER

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Since you have no easily discernible contact or complaints point this is going here and it’s pretty straight forward.

GET YOUR F$%^&*$ ADVERTISING OFF MY COMPUTER.

I don’t pay you for anything other than what you’re meant to be doing, so get f@#$%^& rid of it.

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There is two ways doing that :wink:

  1. If you have payed version you can disable it in settings
  2. Uninstall
Since you have no easily discernible contact or complaints point this is going here and it's pretty straight forward.
FAQ section >> https://support.avast.com/support/home Contact >> https://support.avast.com/support/tickets/new
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Mate, as a paying customer, I shouldn’t have to do a damn thing.

When avast start paying for the computer that I worked and payed for and provide the same software licenses that I work, pay for and maintain, then yeah go for your life, advertise to your hearts content. In the meantime and dealing with the current reality, GET YOUR F$%^&#$ ADVERTISING OFF MY COMPUTER.

There is a reason I moved, many years ago, away from Norton, seems history is about to repeat itself.

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I too believe in the paid versions it should be disabled but default.

However, the person trying to help you is another avast user (just like myself) trying to help other avast users, he is not an avast employee.

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Hi FOYW,

I do not think it is avast at fault, it is more a sign of the times issue, as it is always easy to bark up the wrong tree(s).

Actually you should go and complain about this to the biggest data slurper there is, while Google’s global imperical platform is producing all that advertising constantly onto (into) your device and it is not avast’s doing, just avast being a Google partner.

In what kind of world do you live, a Rip van Winkle one?

Avast has Google analytics, as the major part of all analytics it “has” to cooperate with in some way or other.
This is Google tracking services. M$ is doing the same.

But always others have to endure the flak for what these global players do.
We are just volunteers and we are no avast team members, so we cannot explain avast’s decisions to you.

In the mean time you could also protect yourself and install Adguard blocker and then not forget to also tick no to all Google ads,
or block the tracking with a tracking blocking extension in the browser. One click and you are done.

Alas on android you have to root the phone, especially when on a one Google platform, where adblockers are thrown out.

polonus

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You can disable the ads in the paid versions.
Avast GUI → Settings → Popups

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Hi Asyn,

Still feel they should have made that an opt-in in stead of an opt-out.

polonus

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Hi Pol, agreed, but it seems the marketing guys think different… :wink:

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I’ve said for a long time that ads should be opt-in for paid users. I said it many times in Prague and on the dev channel but it has fallen to deaf ears.

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Shareholders want money, AVG was not free >> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=198978.0

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You can disable the ads in the paid versions.
Avast GUI -> Settings -> Popups

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Yeah, thanks but that doesn’t work.

It’s a browser thing. When I open a session another page automatically appears;

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p365/myimageuploads/Shit_zpsybhxlgap.jpg

And it’s really @#$%^&* irritating.

Just sayin;

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p365/myimageuploads/w_zpslfhv02ch.jpg

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That’s SafePrice, best you get rid of it.
→ https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB96#artTitle (Add/Remove components)

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Thanks for that.

Interesting, yet erroneous, choice of words at the end of the paragraph.

http://i345.photobucket.com/albums/p365/myimageuploads/w_zpstuqehmwx.jpg

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So you know what the actual rating for Avast is, please take a look at the latest Ratings:
https://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php#

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You’re welcome.