No one is saying you don't have a grievance/point, I'm just saying use the existing topic as A) it keeps it together and B) with each post it brings it up the chronological order on the listings.
Don't get me wrong I hate these misleading Ads, I just ignore them and there is absolutely no way I would purchase anything (regardless of who/what it is) when pushed in this way. I'm sure I'm not alone in that view, but marketers in all areas are at it.
I don't believe there are any stats gathered in how many views there are, tens of hundreds of millions (given there are hundreds of millions of users), against the numbers purchased. But unlike having to pay for advertising it doesn't cost anything when pushed within the program, etc. Not much incentive to stop, I also guess there are no stats on those moving away from Avast Free as a result of this.