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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #90 on: April 02, 2015, 09:28:40 PM »
To be fair, this is not Avast's "business model" it is employed by many companies all over the world. Aluminum siding is always extra ;)
to be fair, you don't have to invent somethingto use it. it seems more like sabotage to me.
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« Reply #91 on: April 05, 2015, 09:23:55 AM »
i've been using (and recommending) Avast for over a decade. the popups are pretty annoying. if you're doing work or research or whatever, they are totally distracting. you can't measure this in the amount of time it takes to close the advertisement. and it's just getting worse.

Absolutely. I came here specifically looking for some feedback from others about these popups because they are EXTREMELY intrusive now.

I get ads for the "business" version of Avast that take up 1/4 of my screen now. I mean that literally -- it's the pop-up venom_zx just posted about, and it takes up a really huge chunk of my screen, and you have to wait until the stupid thing scrolls up before you can click it to make it go away. That's on top of the 4-6 "regular" popups I get during the day.

And I get popups advertising the VPN every time I go to what you'd call an adult website. I'm a film researcher and doing an article on Radley Metzger films, thus end up on sites for research that apparently are on some kind of list that Avast recognizes, because it triggers a VPN ad to tell me they can hide my IP from the website I'm visiting. I never get those VPN ads otherwise.

It's so bad now that I came here to look for discussion and found two threads, one where people insisted those VPN ads have nothing to do with the websites you go to, and this one, where a bunch of people have said nothing but "pay or shut up and stop posting here."

It's very frustrating. Silent/gaming mode is okay but you want the popups if there's a virus notification. There's no middle ground: either multiple ads a day (some of them huge) or no popups and also no virus notification, either.

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« Reply #92 on: April 05, 2015, 11:32:13 AM »
I agree that the new huge ads are very intrusive.  They also are of no interest to me as I don't run a business.  The ones asking to fill in surveys are also irritating as even if you fill in the survey they still keep popping up.   So today I am going to look for another free AV.  Plenty of research to do today.

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« Reply #93 on: April 05, 2015, 12:02:50 PM »
I am also losing patience with the new 'supersize' (and irrelevant) business pop-ups. Irritation at increased frequency is giving way to annoyance.

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« Reply #94 on: April 05, 2015, 04:16:45 PM »
I agree that the new huge ads are very intrusive.  They also are of no interest to me as I don't run a business.  The ones asking to fill in surveys are also irritating as even if you fill in the survey they still keep popping up.   So today I am going to look for another free AV.  Plenty of research to do today.

Tortoise, please report back what you find in your search for a new AV.  Thanks.

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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #95 on: April 05, 2015, 04:48:08 PM »
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That's on top of the 4-6 "regular" popups I get during the day

I also use the free version and have never experience this ??? The pop ups might not be enjoyable but,
exaggerating what actually happens certainly doesn't help at all.
If you're that disgruntled, activate the silent gamers mode or spend some money and pay for the product. :)
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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #96 on: April 06, 2015, 08:03:19 AM »
And yet another dismissive statement from Avast Evangelist. Sorry, the Avast Business popup is by far the worst of the bunch, I have had it every day for the past week or so and I am not a business. Taking up a quarter of the screen is beyond a joke. As for paying, I looked and I do not need ANY of the things included in Pro. Sorry Avast, like most on this thread we are not amused and looking for alternatives.

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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #97 on: April 06, 2015, 02:55:14 PM »
And yet another dismissive statement from Avast Evangelist. Sorry, the Avast Business popup is by far the worst of the bunch, I have had it every day for the past week or so and I am not a business. Taking up a quarter of the screen is beyond a joke. As for paying, I looked and I do not need ANY of the things included in Pro. Sorry Avast, like most on this thread we are not amused and looking for alternatives.
Not dismissive at all. Just factual. I didn't say I like it but 6 popups per day isn't factual.
On my screen it only takes up a small corner so I guess it depends on the size of your screen.

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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #98 on: April 06, 2015, 05:59:14 PM »
The '6 popups per day' was not said by me. I have though already seen the 'Business Avast' popup twice today and I was away from my computer for several hours this morning so there might have been more. One reply to this thread immediately after my post has mysteriously disappeared.

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« Reply #99 on: April 06, 2015, 06:05:47 PM »
One reply to this thread immediately after my post has mysteriously disappeared.
Techknow's post was removed because as off late all his posts consist of attacks on certain Evangelists and does not add to the content of this topic.

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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #100 on: April 07, 2015, 03:00:46 PM »
Avast gains or loses users according to the judgement of each individual.
Some are aghast at the sight of an ad or a 'shopping cart'.
Some are indifferent.
Some might even like them!

I mostly use AIS (I don't recall seeing any ads there) but I'm a curious kinda guy so I like to keep at least one machine running the Free version, just to see what's going on.

All I can say is, in the words (I think I recall correctly) of Graham Chapman in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail',
"What an eccentric performance!;D

If you truly are sufficiently offended by Avast marketing its own products within its own products to stop using their product, then just stop. Your non-use of the product will get the message through. And by all means tell them (briefly and pointedly) at sales@avast.com and/or support@avast.com

If you decide to keep using the product but would just rather not see the ads, you too can take a little time to tell them what you think at the above addresses.

In the meantime, , somewhat ironically, one workaround might be to take the advice from the most recent ad and change to "Avast for Business". It's no less free than 'Avast Free' and all the marketing is in the admin console.



 
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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #101 on: April 08, 2015, 03:32:08 PM »
I am also losing patience with the new 'supersize' (and irrelevant) business pop-ups. Irritation at increased frequency is giving way to annoyance.

Ken

As expected... they have the right to advertise... give them an inch they take a mile.  They may have the right to advertise but they do not have to right to become a nuisance and they have crossed the line with these business ads.

KNOCK IT OFF!

And whomever is running around power hungry and deleting everyone's posts knock that off too!


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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #102 on: April 08, 2015, 04:01:01 PM »
I am also losing patience with the new 'supersize' (and irrelevant) business pop-ups. Irritation at increased frequency is giving way to annoyance.

Ken

As expected... they have the right to advertise... give them an inch they take a mile.  They may have the right to advertise but they do not have to right to become a nuisance and they have crossed the line with these business ads.

KNOCK IT OFF!

And whomever is running around power hungry and deleting everyone's posts knock that off too!
You have alternatives and choices. Are you actually still using Avast ???
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« Reply #103 on: April 08, 2015, 04:22:39 PM »
And yet another dismissive statement from Avast Evangelist. Sorry, the Avast Business popup is by far the worst of the bunch, I have had it every day for the past week or so ....

It is not a dismissive statement by us. I could not tell you why you are having it that many times, but in my case I just had it once last week. This week, today, I got the one about Avast survey.

This has been said many times in the forums. The Pop up adverts come piggy backing Avast VPS ( main virus sig updates ). I have them set so that Avast look for them every 4 hours ( default ) so If I stayed in front of the screen for 8 hours, I would get 2 pop ups at the most if any is sent.

Usually Avast has 2 main VPS updates a day. May be 3; However, I can not say that if there was no new VPS when Avast look for them, it would pop up or not an advert. So If you have reconfigured when Avast looks for updates to 2 hours or less ( BTW it is not necessary since you got stream updates 24/7 ) instead of 4 hours, you might have more pop up adverts.

So, check your updates virus signature time so that Avast looks for them every 4 or 6 hours. Make your info and updates popups last only 1 second, and may be these pop ups will become less intrusive.

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Re: Offer pop-ups
« Reply #104 on: April 08, 2015, 05:15:23 PM »
I am also losing patience with the new 'supersize' (and irrelevant) business pop-ups. Irritation at increased frequency is giving way to annoyance.

Ken

As expected... they have the right to advertise... give them an inch they take a mile.  They may have the right to advertise but they do not have to right to become a nuisance and they have crossed the line with these business ads.

KNOCK IT OFF!

And whomever is running around power hungry and deleting everyone's posts knock that off too!
You have alternatives and choices. Are you actually still using Avast ???

Except Bob's useless posts... feel free to delete those and his account