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I was perusing ghacks when I found this article.
Since so many of us use the app, I thought you should read Martin Brinkmann's advice.
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Oh well ....just another data mine.
Am already on 5.45.6611 ....;p
Me too... this doesn't bother me at all.
Well I'm not updating to it... too many issues for my liking. Firstly, it is always running in the background chewing up resources. Secondly, I don't want to have to jump through hoops to disable features I don't want running: Eg, Active Monitoring.
I just want CCleaner to run when I want it to, no bullshit running behind the scenes doing stuff I wouldn't like: eg, sending data to whomever and possibly being shared with somebody I wouldn't give the time of day to. No, I have an earlier version with just about everything disabled/switched off. When I need it I go to the shortcut in Fences and activate it myself.
I mean, seriously, think about how many companies/programs using analytics and your user data.... all using YOUR internet bandwidth to operate... and not necessarily in your interests.
Oh, and I took off my tinfoil hat to write this post so it was unaffected by conspiracy theories. 
Only goes to prove there is no such a thing as a 'free lunch'.
One thing I find amusing though, is that in the article they state:
"CCleaner was a program that worked fine out of the box for years but that is not really the case anymore. While the cleaning works as good as it did years ago, recent decisions to push the monitoring functionality, introduce advertising popups for pro upgrades, hack, and analytics/privacy controversy have painted the program and the company in a bad light."
and right below the end of the article, ironically enough:
"We need your help
Advertising revenue is falling fast across the Internet, and independently-run sites like Ghacks are hit hardest by it. The advertising model in its current form is coming to an end, and we have to find other ways to continue operating this site."
Yeah, guess what? There ARE no free lunches. Somebody or something always has to pay for it.
I'm just glad that I had all the crap turned off so CCleaner didn't update [or prompt to update] to this latest version. I'll stick to the earlier version until I find something better. Wise Cleaner is supposedly quite good and is minus all those undesirable extras, so I may look into that over the next day or so.
As for the free lunch, I buy my own so I know what goes into it.
CCleaner was dead for me and deleted as soon as Avast took over. Using Glary Utilities now and never looked back.
I have the pro version - now uninstalled. What a way to destroy such a useful program 
Turned on my laptop this morning and as it booted up I got a pop up with CCleaner behind it saying "This product does not work in your present location." That never happened before. So I opened CCleaner and no such pop up came up. I'm not sure if I should keep it or find something else.
Did you try CCleaner to see if it worked? Besides, I don't think CCleaner has any locational restrictions. Mucic and movies may have licensing restrictions for some areas, but not CCleaner... unless it's a new thing, which would be a reason for me to uninstall it and try out Wise Cleaner. So Uvah, if you don't trust it anymore, try out Wise Cleaner, it also has a free version.
I've already been put off using the latest version of CCleaner because of it's data mining, etc, but if this locational thing is a ploy to make me update to it then I'm definitely ditching CCleaner altogether.
Huh? Do you mean to say that Avast owns CCleaner?
Huh? Do you mean to say that Avast owns CCleaner?
Yup
I guess they have owned them for over a year already...
When I had CCleaner open before I upgraded I clicked on check for updates on the bottom right. That took me to, blankety blank...CNET, not piriform's website. SOB! Version 5.45 seems to me to be somebody's addition to 5.44. Data mining perhaps, by Avast A/V perhaps. The anti spy spy. Lol
I did dl wise cleaner and installed it after uninstalling CCleaner. It did a deeper clean than CCleaner, taking out 1.6 gigs of totally useless junk. It cleaned out WinSxS where CCleaner didn't. That accounted for most of it. Only thing is when I used CCleaner it cleaned out all of my browser history so I had to log in at WC. Didn't happen this time, I was still logged in. Haven't checked other sites I go to yet.
Downgrade it to whatever version (afterdawn.com or filehippo should have older versions) then install ccenhancer or do what neophil said or just stay of the web :p
Thanks for that tip!!! I just installed it and kicked the tires. Seems to do as expected but have not noticed any real performance gains.
Swapped out CC for GU here as well. I had used GU a number of years ago, not sure why I abandoned it then. Seems to do everything CC (free) could do.
May give WiseCleaner a spin, too.
I did notice one thing. Boot up time went from 42 seconds to 21 seconds. Cut it in half after running Wise Cleaner.
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