Avast should make a profit. But not by forcefeeding us stuff that we don’t want… stuff that we go out of our way to avoid in fact.
People don’t complain about the protection because it’s very good. Maybe Avast should just concentrate on monetizing the protection by only allowing 6 months free instead of the ads and other junk.
The ads bug has been known for a while now and is gradually beginning to get fixed. It’s actually a VPS update which displays the ad notification instead.
You can disable the VPS update notifications and that should stop the ads.
Again, it may be annoying but it does not affect the functionality of the program to protect against malware.