

Those hygiene products don't get installed on your PC and sell pseudo anonimized data of you. Our state-of-the-art infrastructure and access to immense volumes of security data gathered from hundreds of millions of devices around the globe, gives us the largest, most advanced zero-day threat-detection network on the. Have you ever watched TV and seen an advertisement for a female hygiene product? You certainly don't want to buy those products, yet would you say you feel threatened by such offers? " To protect users, Avast detects and immediately reports any suspicious files or behavior. I would put that under threat.īotg also said: "Let's assume you are male for the sake of the argument. That might be the case, but FileZilla actually was bundled with Avast, which sold pseudo anonimized (browser) data. In thread 48964 (locked), the site admin said: "There is also a _HUGE_ gap between things you might not want, and things that are actually a threat to you." I found there was another thread about this subject. They also clutter your PC and Windows registry, reducing reliability. Those sponsored downloads reduce public trust in FileZilla. I'd say, because of that, it's not the sponsored download that is optional, but the normal download is optional. The big green downloadbutton is way more prominent. It's funny, as sponsored downloads are optional, but no one ever clicked the link to the complete download page:
