Not that this takes away from your complaint here, but I don't think Avast uses the Windows notifications for anything else. They usually use their own native notifications for things like detections, scan results, etc. Unless Avast is going to be changing that and all notifications from them will come through the Windows notifications area, which would be unfortunate.
Windows notification doesn't have on or off for certain notifications of an App and Avast is simply an App.
The option is either on or off for all notifications for an App..
Correct, but Windows notifications only deals with the notifications that come from them in the Windows notifications area. They don't control other Avast notifications. For example, if you turn off the Windows notifications from the Windows settings for Avast, and your WebShield blocks a risky website, you will still get that notification. If you have a scan that completes, you'll get that notification about the results. If you leave the Avast notifications on "Smart mode", you'll still get the pop ups trying to upsell you to Premium if you're not already a Premium member. The reason those notifications, I believe, won't be affected is because they aren't done through Windows notifications, but through Avast's
own notifications from their UI.
So then the question becomes: Which Avast notifications are done through their own UI versus through the Windows notifications module. If there are other things Avast notifies you of through Windows notifications, then turning off notifications in the Windows settings would obviously cause an issue. However, in my experience, before this update I never saw any Avast notifications done through the Windows notifications. This is the first one. But is that changing with this update? Will notifications now be integrated through Windows notifications system? Is it different per OS? I know you're on Windows 11. Were all Avast related notifications previously done through a MS Windows pop up, or were they done through Avast UI pop ups on Windows 11? I'm on Windows 10 and again, my experience has been the latter except for this new one so far.
If an Avast employee wants to answer these questions, that would be great. Because i'm mostly speculating with educated guesses here.