CCleaner's June release (5.44), duly spammed users with pop-up adverts for a 'Summer Sale'.ĬCleaner 5.43 displayed tick boxes for data-collection and ads that you couldn't untick You couldn't untick either of them unless you paid for an upgrade.
The trouble began in May, when CCleaner 5.43 added two pre-ticked boxes: 'Allow usage data to be shared with 3rd parties for analytics purposes' and 'Show offers for our other products'. CCleaner – still developed by Puriform, but now owned by Avast – was one of the most highly recommended free software tools around, until this summer when the great junk-remover became such a ghastly junk offender that even its own parent company withdrew its latest version.Ĭan our old favourite ever be trusted again? Here we answer your questions and look at the best free CCleaner alternatives.
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