Please stop popping up advertisments. I’m not interested.
As has been explained a huge amount of times already, you can disable them in the paid versions.
You can also set avast to gaming/silent mode but you will also not getting security warnings if you do.
And please (re)search before posting.
About everything has already been explained/covered.
They are hardly going to hear or know where your installation is to personally stop them.
If you have a paid version of avast (you don’t say what version you have) you can stop them. AvastUI > Settings > General > Popups - see attached image.
So far, two responses with a narrow, unenlightened point of view.
Maybe there are no other responses except from the same, tired, old cheerleaders (evangelists) because avast! has eliminated any links in their GUI for providing feedback or leading to the support forum.
E.g., click on the system tray icon > About Avast > GUI > no links back to avast.com except the End User License Agreement. It’s not difficult to realize that they need to limit feedback as a result of their aggressive pop-up policy.
If avast! is allowed to make it so crystal clear that they will defend their aggressive pop-up policy by limiting user feedback, then I’m certainly allowed to push back and say, “Please stop popping up advertisements. I’m not interested.”
I have plenty of free utiities that don’t resort to disruptive distracting pop-ups, and they still, perfectly effectively, make their additional products known. Avast can find some other strategies, as others have. Or, in Avast’s case, “reverse” their pop-up strategy, because once upon a time, Avast wasn’t annoying.
And yes, I’ve also purchased plenty of software from the internet. On that tangent, Avast’s pop-up policy, if anything, makes me want to give them money even less.
Have a deep breath and calm down, shouting is not gonna help you or anybody else.
avast is not limiting user feedback at all.
They are even encouraging to give feedback.
Comments like you make however is nothing they can do anything with.
I don’t know how long you have been using avast, but they already have drastically decreased the amount of pop-ups.
They also have changed the way they are trying to promote things.
You don’t have to like the changes, but fact is they have taken place already.
As far as the “evangelist” title.
It was given to a limited amount of people by avast.
The people have not chosen it themselfs, have never asked for it and it has nothing to do with the amount of posts someone has made here.
It is just a token of appreciation for the support some people give to others.
We also (sometimes very much) dislike what avast is doing, but we tell avast about it in a normal way and provide suggestions on what in our opinion would be better.
It is plain and simple, if you don’t like the ads/pop-ups get a paid version and disable them or use something else.
No-one is forcing you to use avast or anything else for that matter.
Have a deep breath and calm down, shouting is not gonna help you or anybody else.
Breathing fine, thanks. If you perceive shouting, you might be projecting.
avast is not limiting user feedback at all. They are even encouraging to give feedback.
I don’t see it. But it’s not my primary issue.
Comments like you make however is nothing they can do anything with.
They can re-evaluate.
they already have drastically decreased the amount of pop-ups…
… after having instituted them and ramping them up. If they’re improper, how many there are isn’t a primary issue, unless they’re reduced to a very, very, very small number. And I guess “drastic” is a relative term.
They also have changed the way they are trying to promote things.
Thanks, I’ll keep an eye open.
As far as the “evangelist” title. It is just a token of appreciation for the support some people give to others.
I can tell that avast! appreciates your intercepting and deflecting criticism.
We also (sometimes very much) dislike what avast is doing
Please do tell.
but we tell avast about it in a normal way
I’ve seen flaming before, and it hasn’t happened on this thread, so I object to your implication. Shall we start the old philosophical debate about what’s “normal?” A person has a right to complain about in-your-face marketing pop-ups. I have very few smilies to contribute to the subject. Pop-ups on my computer denote “High Priority.” I object to Avast!'s marketing department self-determining that they are one of my High Priorities. I tend to look at the marketing of all my favorite products; I don’t need Avast’s marketing department demanding that I attend them NOW, no less periodically.
and we [evangelists] provide suggestions on what in our opinion would be better
Did you suggest stopping the marketing pop-ups?
It is plain and simple, if you don’t like the ads/pop-ups get a paid version and disable them …
There is another possibility – stop the marketing pop-ups. There are other options besides marketing pop-ups.
… or use something else. No-one is forcing you to use avast or anything else for that matter
I guess constructivity ended there.
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PS: Please stop popping up advertisments. I’m not interested.
Stop using big size text…
I didn’t bother to read much of your posts. But it’s a FREE product you’re complaining about! STOP using it if you’re not happy. Jeez, some people…
EDIT: Let me add that of course you’re entitled to an opinion, but the way you do it in this topic is not very wise. There are other topics about this same issue, there’s no need to open another one, and start posting with skyscraper high letters.
Hi Skakara.
Sorry about the big size text. I thought you were all using small sized text; ha ha. No, but seriously, on my computer, the size 14 font is barely larger than the default, whose size isn’t specified, so I didn’t realize it would even be noticeable. But if it’s really magnified on other computers, I’ll stop messing with that.
it’s a FREE product you’re complaining about!
Sorry, again. I’m not complaining about the product. I’m only complaining about intrusive marketing pop-ups. They are an executive decision to pollute their otherwise excellent product [which I would suggest to my friends as a 1st Choice for an antivirus solution].
STOP using it if you’re not happy.
Yeh yeh, Don’t worry be happy.
There are other topics about this same issue, there’s no need to open another one
We’re still getting marketing pop-ups, so I thought the need was still there. I second-guess myself plenty, but not this time. The most popular antivirus software on the planet doesn’t need to sink to such low depths as intrusive marketing pop-ups. There are other options for marketing one’s products.