Finally Avast Free has added “limited notification” in the notification settings which shows alerts when a malicious attack is detected, but blocks any pop-up offers.
So finally commercial pop-ups with offers should not appear for those who do not want to view them.
Though you don’t mention it in your post or forum signature, I guess you are using the latest beta as the current version of Avast Free that I have is 23.12.6094 (build 23.12.8700.813) and the UI (1.0.793) differs slightly but offers a limited mode. Image attached.
In previous versions I don’t remember there being this choice, so it was finally a long-awaited new release.
Strange that it wasn’t communicated in the releases of the new versions.
At the moment I am using this notification mode and I am no longer receiving pop-ups warning of incomplete protection which, however, only serve to push you to switch to page products with VPN. etc…
So I’m only receiving popups in case of detection of malware, malicious websites, etc… i.e. important protection notifications.
In my opinion, this is fine and Avast had to do it for a long time, because all the users, especially with Avast Free, complained about these annoying commercial pop-ups and chose other AV Free solutions.
In any case, the user is always free to choose the type of notifications he wants to receive.
On Avast HELP page I found this screenshot. It seems Premium security has additional settings “Silent mode + Threat alerts”.
Please tell me, what is diference between “Limited mode” and “Silent mode + Threat alerts”?
That text has no sense, it blocks alerts, but it shows important notifications about malicious attacks. I thought “alert” = “detection”.