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Oneironaut

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1. Capitalist absurdity, when malware cleaners have malware in them.

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2018, 08:09 AM

Jun 2018

Is it just me, or has internet advertising become 100% more obnoxious in these last couple of years. It’s almost like we’re getting back to the times where you would visit a website and 50 pop ups would flood your screen, rendering the site unusable.

I installed Adblock recently, and it makes using the Internet beautiful.

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Avast is ruining CCleaner -- malware, bundled software, popup ads... what's next? [View all] douglas9 Jun 2018 OP

Capitalist absurdity, when malware cleaners have malware in them. Oneironaut Jun 2018 #1

This applies to the free version AFAIK teach1st Jun 2018 #2

it will lose customers to better alternatives then? nt msongs Jun 2018 #3

For the most part CCleander is unneeded software. ManiacJoe Jul 2018 #4