Don’t use CCleaner. It’s adware/bundleware/spyware, and it can damage your computer unless you know what you are doing (in which case you would use something else anyway).
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Know any decent alternatives? I use ccleaner occasionally only to quickly clear out unused and temporary files.
Windows file cleaner, it's built-in. Search for "clean".
Doesnt really clean up after much more than default windows apps and IE, unfortunately. (Theres an API for registering apps but I've never seen an app use it.) Doesnt clean up NVIDIA install files, doesnt clean up %localappdata%\Temp, or the Office install files at C:\temp. Not MS Edge cache, chromium cache, discord cache, adobe cache, nor system logs. The currently best, which I dont think is as good yet as CCleaner once was, is BleachBit. But its more trustworthy than CCleaner and it is open source.
Yeah I’m not going to use it. I used it once back in the days, but never since because it fucked up everything. It’s just, I paid for a cyber security course that’s all about how you can be safe, and then they throw NordVPN and CCleaner onto you in 2023 and I just… I’ve learned a lot about networking and security in this course and then that?
Scammy companies pay for sponsoring, and scammy creators accept that sponsoring. Pretty sad for a paid course.
Yes… the part of the course I am at right now is about encryption on windows. I just skipped how they expained encrypting your HDD with veracrypt… that’s sad… windows itself lets you encrypt stuff natively…
Edit: now they encrypt it with bitlocker… like a whole 10 minutes of showing that…
There are legit VPN companies. Mullvad would be my choice if I didn't already use Proton for their suite of software.
Nord is shit-tier. CCleaner is shit-tier. Raid shadow legends is shit tier.
Note which youtuber it is, and completely disregard anything they say.
The way I see it is if a company has to spend a shit ton of money advertising, they're probably not all that good to begin with.
If a product is legitimately good people will be beating down their door.
I have never actually seen a Proton ad. I only looked into them after hearing about them often on privacy oriented subs.
Literally Edward Snowden mentioning it is the first time I heard of it, and after that, it was in the news a few times when big leaks happened, and the people who used Proton Mail never seemed to be the ones who got caught. That's the only I've ever heard them being "advertised" - and that's a pretty fucking good ad campaign: be one that people can rely on when their lives are at stake.
Same. I've been using proton for 6 or 7 years now.
I've seen a couple on the Linux Experiment's page
I hate to admit, but I played Raid shadow legends on day 1. it was shit-tier after 3 hours and thirsted for money.
Needless to say, a YouTuber I saw during a YouTube-Trip said that they declined the raid shadow legends deal, despite it being 5 figures. Didn’t say the specific amount though.
CCleaner is trash, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VMQyQzRJw
His rationale is that on a stock install, it removes entries, and that it might break some things. But he doesn't show much more than stuff being removed. He doesn't reason that windows may or may not clean them up itself, or explain which programs are crashing. It's a 6 minute video you can probably Skip. There may be better videos with more evidence out there.
There may be better videos with more evidence out there.
Sure link them so we can see...
Proof is the burden of those who make the assertion. Is ccleaner useless? It has yet remained to be seen.
Pretty interesting video! Thank you!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=21VMQyQzRJw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Good bot :D
Their update server was hacked 3 times already, if you MUST use it then use the portable version and remove it afterwards.