CCleaner Rolls Back Version 5.45 Due to Privacy Concerns
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 08/06/2018 11:46 AM
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Tim touched on this the other day. But now it seems that after much outcry from users and industry professionals alike Piriform/Avast has pulled the 5.45 release.
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Here’s the forum post from Piriform announcing the change:
Thank you all for your continued feedback (positive and negative, it all helps). I wanted to give a quick progress update on what we're doing. We’re currently working on separating out cleaning functionality from analytics reporting and offering more user control options which will be remembered when CCleaner is closed. We’re also creating a fact sheet to share which will outline the data we collect, for which purposes and how it is processed.
Today we have removed v5.45 and reverted to v5.44 as the main download for CCleaner while we work on a new version with several key improvements.
As stated before, we'll split cleaning alerts (which don't send any data) from UI trend data (which is anonymous and only there to measure the user experience) and provide a separate setting for each in the user preferences. Some of these features run as a separate process from the UI: we'll restore visibility of this in the notifications area, and you'll be able to close it down from that icon menu as before.
We understand the importance of this to you all. This work is our number 1 priority, and we are taking the time to get it right in the next release. There are numerous changes required, so that does mean it will take weeks, not days. While we work on this, we have removed version 5.45 and reinstated version 5.44.
You can grab version 5.44 from us here:
CCleaner Standard
CCleaner Portable
CCleaner Slim
CCleaner Professional/Plus
ccPortable (CCleaner via PortableApps)
Or if you prefer, maybe try a possible CCleaner alternative - Glary Tracks Eraser is an easy-to-use privacy protection tool that allows you to erase all history tracks safely and completely. Also, Tim has just put out a brand new video introduction to Glary Tracks Eraser and Disk Cleaner to help get you started. Enjoy!
TIP: Here’s the forum post from Piriform announcing the change:
Thank you all for your continued feedback (positive and negative, it all helps). I wanted to give a quick progress update on what we're doing. We’re currently working on separating out cleaning functionality from analytics reporting and offering more user control options which will be remembered when CCleaner is closed. We’re also creating a fact sheet to share which will outline the data we collect, for which purposes and how it is processed.
Today we have removed v5.45 and reverted to v5.44 as the main download for CCleaner while we work on a new version with several key improvements.
As stated before, we'll split cleaning alerts (which don't send any data) from UI trend data (which is anonymous and only there to measure the user experience) and provide a separate setting for each in the user preferences. Some of these features run as a separate process from the UI: we'll restore visibility of this in the notifications area, and you'll be able to close it down from that icon menu as before.
We understand the importance of this to you all. This work is our number 1 priority, and we are taking the time to get it right in the next release. There are numerous changes required, so that does mean it will take weeks, not days. While we work on this, we have removed version 5.45 and reinstated version 5.44.
You can grab version 5.44 from us here:
CCleaner Standard
CCleaner Portable
CCleaner Slim
CCleaner Professional/Plus
ccPortable (CCleaner via PortableApps)
Or if you prefer, maybe try a possible CCleaner alternative - Glary Tracks Eraser is an easy-to-use privacy protection tool that allows you to erase all history tracks safely and completely. Also, Tim has just put out a brand new video introduction to Glary Tracks Eraser and Disk Cleaner to help get you started. Enjoy!
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