CCleaner Rolls Back Sketchy Update, Promises Not to Undo User Preferences in Future Version

Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com

Piriform, reacting to widespread backlash, rolled back recent changes to CCleaner that made it functionally impossible to prevent data collection.

Version 5.45 of CCleaner collects anonymized system information. Users can disable this data collection only for CCleaner to automatically re-enable the settings when it restarts.

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This prompted widespread outrage last week, with users, privacy advocates, and journalists crying foul. So Piriform, the Avast subsidiary behind CCleaner, rolled back CCleaner over the weekend.

Here’s the forum post announcing the change:

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