I'm done, I'm done I'm so done with these popups

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I’ve filled out surveys, I’ve sent critique e-mails. I get ignored.

The invasive pop-ups on the free version have made Avast Free Edition utterly unusable. They pop up at random, multiple times a day, with zero way to disable them even in the so-called “Silent Mode.” They track what sites I browse. They display my IP address with no warning. They’ve shown a pinpoint on Google Maps where my location is, telling me I need a VPN to hide it. They tell me hackers can see what I do online. They tell me my bank information is exposed and that I need some security product I can’t be arsed to remember the name of.

I do livestreams on occasion. I don’t need your software doxxing me at random to my viewers. This has gone completely off the rails. It used to be once a month I’d see a popup, but suddenly this year it has become aggressively a daily fight with them.

Bottom line is this. I’ve switched to Bitdefender because of how unusable you guys have made the free version.

If your company can’t finance a free edition of your software without resorting to Facebook levels of invasive targeted advertising and browser telemetry that can’t be turned off, then you shouldn’t offer a free version at all. Simple as that. ESET has no true free version. I’d like to make the suggestion that you follow their lead and stick to a trial version model instead of targeted advertising.

2

I’ve used the free version since 2003.
I don’t know what you mean by excessive popups.
Take a look at your privacy settings and adjust them to allow only what’s needed.

3

I keep being told that my (free) licence has expired and I click my way through the very brief renewal process. A day or two later on the same PC I receive the same notice of licence expiry. Is this really how Avast wants to showcase its product quality to the world?

4

So far I have never experienced this once the process of renewal has completed and I have been using Avast for 17 years, lucky I guess.

5

I’ve also never experience that problem.

6

I ran the offline installation executable for Avast free 21.5 and the problem seems to be no longer apparent. As the man who jumped off the Empire State Building was heard to say as he past the 70th floor “So far, so good.”

7

Ditto for passing the 65th floor.

8

You must have a good parachute. I reckon that is only 5 floors you have descended in 1 hour :slight_smile:

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;D 8)