I would like to give my opinion about the remove [Like Avast?] button claiming. I think it is screaming loud for nothing.
I agree it could be removable in paid versions, but what’s the big deal with it in Avast! free? First of all, it is very discreet, and it doesn’t attract the mouse pointers like an evil beam ray! Common! What if I wanted to promote, review, recomendate Avast? The button is a very convenient tool to do it.
Sincerely, I think there is overreaction about it, and if my opinion counts on something, I would not like the button to be removed.
well, i personally think it shuld be put into the free version and the option to remove it shouldnt be there (for the LIKE button in the main UI, the twitter icons in alert windows are completely unacceptable in any version i feel) but theyve given the user a choice, so they did not remove it and u can still have it there if u wish.
I used the new feature to hide the like button my on avast free on my computer. The Avast Update free button at the top was to much… If Avast makes it so that only paid versions can remove the like button than i will switch to Mcafee or MSE.
I couldn’t give a stuff about paid or free, the sodding thing has little or no purpose.
I don’t have a facebook account and never will (or cnet registration), to be able to rate/review it you have to have an account.
Lets assume I had a facebook account and I rated avast, the sodding thing would still be there forever and a day (without an option to remove it) even after having rated/reviewed/voted, serving no purpose other than to irritate.
Me I wasn’t really that bothered about it, but these things really do get up peoples’ noses, so given the above circumstances I see no reason why it shouldn’t have the option to be removed on all versions.
So lets have no paid version snobbery, get over it, there are more than enough differences in the paid versions to revert to this kind of pettiness in the hope to convert users free version users. If they haven’t done it knowing what functions they aren’t getting, this would hardly change their minds.
I dislike the thought of it being mandatory is all, mainly since I have never jumped on the social networking bandwagon, so I have no real use for such a thing.
It is slightly contradictory also, for people who are in the business of Internet security, a community that has repeatedly warned of the dangers of freely sharing personal data, to then publicly endorse social networking this way. But if I worked for Avast! this would nonetheless seem the right way to go, social networking fits very well with their marketing strategy, i.e. spend as little as possible, word-of-mouth before all else.
What you see as an “overreaction” is probably more of a reflection of the opinion of Avast!'s forum users, who have a minority opinion of these matters.
Personally, though…I would burn the “Like Thumb” at the stake if I could, not Avast! UI’s specifically, but all “Like Thumbs” across the whole web. Or at least mandate an “I Do Not Give a Damn” button.
I wasn’t in any way being snobby, or petty, are presuming that only customers who pay for the licences should have the ability to get rid of it. I simply read it that the feature was only in the paid version, that’s all, so I just made it clear that I was using the paid version to save someone replying with ‘only in paid version’, and then having to reply again stating that I was using the paid version…as happened the other day in another thread.
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And I don’t have a FB account…and don’t want one either.
It wasn’t directly addressed to you, but there are others in this topic that feel it should be that way.
I almost can imagine certain game shows were contestants happily enforced rules and inflicted pain on transgressors. Not knowing it was they who were being tested as there was no electric shock, just them pressing the button and actors playing out writhing in pain.
It says a lot about people who would do that; so we don’t need people giving such ideas companies are capable of making their own decisions as they did after the reaction they got with it being placed there.
For what it’s worth, as ‘cool’ and pervasive as FB is (it was even on my sodding mobile until I removed the app…yeah, yeah, Luddite and all that) I really can’t abide it. Having delved a while back (signed up under an alias, under duress, after all and sundry lured me in to the collective) I have experience. Within 24 hours of being a FB member I’d deactivated the account forever, never to return. I still get, “oh, you’re still not on FB?” and then the look like I’ve just been demoted to the class of pathetic technophobic outsider…FB is a bit like a cult. Anyhow, aside all the glaring (and continuing) privacy issues, there’s the frickin drivel you have to endure…oh heavens above, the non stop drivel! Maybe it’s because I’ve run forums for well over a decade that I can’t adjust to the ‘new world’, who knows. All I know is FB and Twitter et al aren’t for me and I actually do pretty much resent FB and Twitter buttons plastered over everything. So, I’d be a hypocrite to support any buttons on any version. Coming down off the fence, I’d support them being completely removed. After installation users could be prompted to lend support but beyond that I think a FB button is entirely inappropriate.
Ahh, those darned pesky LSOs, you should have said :
Yes, BP is set to auto delete everything here as well. I’m surprised anything still works at all with the all the ‘stuff’ being deleted and blocked by this plugin and that plugin :o ;D I’ve got Ghostery, AdblockPlus, NoScript, Beef TACO, Better privacy, and Keyscrambler on the go at all times…and FF is sandboxed when I’m browsing as well. Man alive, it’s all got a bit out of hand hasn’t it? I think I’ll just read a book.
