Telemetry opt-out is not really happening
B. Choice
You can make certain choices about how your data is used by us. For example, if you have purchased a product or service from us, you will be able to choose how data collected from you is used.
This choice is made in the relevant product settings. Please note, if you purchased a product from us and in your product settings you do not see one or more of these choices, it means your collected data is not being used in that particular category. The choices are:
- Cross-product direct marketing: – when we offer you another product from a company within our group.
- Cross-product development – when we collect data from one product and use it for the development of another product.
- Third Party Ads – when we offer any third-party products.
- Third party analytics – when we share your data with a third party for analytics, such as purchase optimization, crash reporting, and trend analytics. Note, all free users and paid customers can choose to turn off this feature
CCleaner.com - What Happens to Your Data
Reading their policy about privacy I spotted the real first problem, they doesn't respect what they said, and in particular here:
This choice is made in the relevant product settings.
Even if the choice is made, DNS request still go out to analytics
That is their only problem, I see the analytics are sended out only when user interact with the GUI, so on that point they are right,
They should fix that...