2018 doesn't seem to be the year of CCleaner. The Windows app lately isn't what we used to know. The recent ones updates of the app had pop-up ads and privacy options without settings.
Η culminating with traffic of CCleaner 5.45 in August when the application now started collecting data via telemetry. Piriform / Avast after the scandal was forced to withdraw this version.
Η new edition CCleaner 5.46 was released at the end of August at 2018, but as it turns out things have not changed too much. A user at the official Piriform forum reported on September 6 2018 that the CCleaner application was automatically updated ignoring end user settings as it was configured not to check and not to install updates.
Piriform confirmed the forced updates to the new version and argued that they were necessary to "comply with legal requirements and give more autonomy and transparency to users about the Privacy Settings».
But what makes automatic updates so much worse for users is that the privacy settings return to their default values when the app is upgraded. So some users will be wondering how CCleaner was upgraded but also how the application privacy settings were changed.
Apparently the creators of the CCleaner app added a critical update feature in version 5.36 that can override the user's update preferences. According to the company automatic updates are in the best interest of users.
Here, let's say that forced updates are not just what we see in CCleaner.
So what can you do? You can accept it, and continue with the application as if nothing is happening. We, of course, suggest deleting CCleaner and any CCleaner that does not respect end-use and use an alternative application, or Windows itself.
Finally, a new version of CCleaner was released today (5.47), but the company withdrew it again "because a setting was not saved correctly".
The conclusion is yours to make…
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After playing cc I downloaded the BleachBit and all right!
Vagster just throws in Linux!
It seemed to me much better than the CC though for which advanced users.
Thanks for the hint!