![]() They promise the ability to control these individually.Piriform will separate the Active Monitoring (junk cleaning alerts and browser cleaning alerts) and heartbeat (anonymous usage analytics) features in the UI. ![]() Lesson learned: simplest isn't always best.īased on user feedback, Piriform wants to give users (in the future releases) better control over the analytical data collected. The developers say:īack to v5.45, and to what we have learned: combining the new analytics with the Active Monitoring feature was quick to implement, but it doesn't offer a lot of flexibility in terms of controlling these distinct items separately. Active Monitoring has been in CCleaner for a number of years and is essentially just some intelligent triggers for alerting users to clean out junk data when a lot of it has accumulated, and also for keeping you updated with the latest cleaning definitions. He explains further, that, when it came to adding the new analytics, the simplest way to do so was to extend the 'Active Monitoring' feature. After listening to your feedback we realize we need to provide you with a better level of control for anonymous data collection. Some of you told us that you do not want to share even anonymous usage data. ![]() To be clear, CCleaner does not collect any personal data. Concerning the user's fear, that CCleaner might be accessing and sharing personal data, the Piriform forum moderator wrote. And the poster says 'we have been listening'. The developer confirms, that since the release of the new version, many users send their feedback. From this we know we need to work harder to make this paid-for feature more obvious in the CCleaner UI. For example, we can see that many of our users have upgraded to the Professional edition but have never switched on the 'scheduled cleaning', which is one of the main benefits of the paid product. Most modern software companies collect anonymous usage data as it is very helpful when prioritising bug fixes and future improvements in the product experience. This data is completely anonymous, and through collecting it we can rapidly detect bugs, identify pain points in the UI design and also understand which areas of functionality we should be focusing our time on. ![]() In CCleaner v5.45 we extended existing analytics functionality in the software in order to gain greater insight into how our users interact with the software. Under the title Changes in v5.45 and your feedback, the developer explained what has changed and why. This was not well taken by users, so that the developers feel to defend their decision in a Piriform forum post. The site has taken up this topic in an article. In other words, telemetry data acquisition has been expanded (the keyword is probably the heartbeat function, an anonymous analysis function). And within this version, the already existing analysis feature (Active Monitoring) were strongly extended. Now AVAST has released the CCleaner version 4.45 via Piriform. And I wrote blog posts (see link list at the end of the article) in which I warned of potentially unwanted software (AVAST) in CCleaner-Installer. I remember the episode in 2017, where a CCleaner version with malware was distributed ( CCleaner has been infected with malware). But since the takeover by AVAST things seems went worse. This is nothing bad per se, especially since Piriform continues to work (at a first glance) independent. However, it should be noted that Piriform, the developer of CCleaner, was acquired by the Tchech antivirus manufacturer AVAST in summer of 2017. In my view, CCleaner is associated with that 'smells like trouble', I've seen too many broken Windows systems after user executed this tool 'to optimize Windows'. Many Windows users love this free program – it has 'magic functions' that can even teach a lame Windows to become a 'racing horse' – is rumored at least in forums. CCleaner was developed by Piriform as a tool for Windows and offers a number of features for cleaning and optimizing the operating system.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |