CCleaner Version 5.45 faces user backlash on its Auto Monitoring Feature!
Piriform’s CCleaner, PC cleaning software, is facing the dissatisfaction of its users. It was found that the new version of CCleaner, Version 5.45, doesn’t allow its users to disable the ‘Active monitoring’ feature.
The extended analytics from the collected user data is supposedly done by the company to gain an insight on how the users interact with CCleaner.
The Collected data allows the developers to detect bugs that are evolving and changing by the minute, improve UI, add new functionalities and improve and focus on the old functionalities as required.
Users were unable to find any privacy settings in the CCleaner Version 5.45 that allowed users to stop or disable anonymous data being collected by Piriform.
Users can disable the active monitoring from options>monitoring, but the feature automatically gets enabled on the next restart. Closing or quitting the software by clicking on the cross ‘X’ button would not result in termination, as the software would minimize itself in the windows tray in the taskbar.
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The extended analytics from the collected user data is supposedly done by the company to gain an insight on how the users interact with CCleaner.
The Collected data allows the developers to detect bugs that are evolving and changing by the minute, improve UI, add new functionalities and improve and focus on the old functionalities as required.
Users were unable to find any privacy settings in the CCleaner Version 5.45 that allowed users to stop or disable anonymous data being collected by Piriform.
Users can disable the active monitoring from options>monitoring, but the feature automatically gets enabled on the next restart. Closing or quitting the software by clicking on the cross ‘X’ button would not result in termination, as the software would minimize itself in the windows tray in the taskbar.
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