This is the app called Franco Kernel Manager, one of the best kernel managers that are out there... Even when it was outdated (which I think that's the cause it got booted from the PlayStore?).

I used it to check the process of my phone and monitor the active and idle drain mostly, I paid for it a long time ago, but now it just fails to check the licence and it doesn't let me use it fully... I think there must be a cracked APK over there...

EDIT:

Fortunately the app is back in the store and hopefully that update version comes soon enough!

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

You can crack most apps using Lucky Patcher

Make sure you get it from the official website though

[–] mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like the luckypatcher.com and .info are both terribly spammy. Even with pureapk the download ended up being something called bluejay. Of course the play store chimed in and said installing it would be a horrible idea. I assume I just picked 3 fake sites to download from

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Luckypatchers.com is the real one.
Also you should avoid pureapk, it has malware.
I recommend sticking to apkmirror if the application is available there.

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ublock Origin kicks up repeated warnings for this.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Show screenshot.
Not even virustotal finds anything wrong with the domain.

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not quite a screen shot, but the text:

uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading:

https://cinsiant.com/click.php?key=sdgenth8ykrtaggbahqp&SUB_ID_SHORT=2f5ea9466c8aea0b3ee7906baf3d35fb&PLACEMENT_ID=20528585&CAMPAIGN_ID=888169&PUBLISHER_ID=1192695&ZONE_ID=2935357

Because of the following filter:

/click.php?key=*&zone_id=$document Found in:

uBlock filters – Badware risks

The warnings pop up and hitting proceed shows scammy fake virus scans and such. To make it clear, it's not luckypatchers itself, but the dodgy full screen ads on load.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is your Ublock Origins & lists updated fully and configured right? Because Ublock Origins is supposed to be blocking the malvertisements from being shown at all.
At least it does for me on Firefox-nightly & Mull.

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, all up to date. UBO gives me the option to proceed (= show) the dodgy ads. Maybe something to do with my settings that it doesn't block those outright. It's a useful option for when I'm using cashback sites that I can temporarily grant tracking links.

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[–] mtdyson_01@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you, and yes pureapk is a trash site.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is that true? Most of the time I tried it didn't work.

It has only worked for me with an old game called Nimble Quest so far 😂

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try different things in the selection dialogue before patching.

If you have root you could install Modded Google Play in Lucky Patcher to automatically succeed License checks

Mods also exist to crack apps, Mobilism is a good site but be careful what you download from whom

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I'll check that out :)

Nice to see this app still strong.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's works, but it's much more effective on a rooted device.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

My device is rooted :/

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

TIL, I'm going to have to check this out later for sure

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm having a hard time finding the actual lucky patcher. Was it at .com or .info or something else? Please help

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This should be the real one: https://www.luckypatchers.com/

Beware fake download ads though (I've never seen any of those, but people without uBlock might)

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Accessing that from my phone shows the actual site content for about 3 seconds and then an endless array of "popup and notification blocked messages" as well as the usual combination of "oh noes your PC has three dangerous viruses click here to resolve" type redirects.

Is this just a cunning way to weed out the normies or can I expect the same kind of thing from their allegedly-excellent app? Because they're not leaving a good impression right now.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that IS the real one, it seems. It asks for random package name, and it immediately installed as an LSPosed module.

[–] AceSLS@ani.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The app is adfree and not spammy. Can't talk about the Website though, I haven't browsed the internet without good content blockers for the last decade

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Chrome mobile put up a pretty good fight. I have been meaning to put Firefox + ublock on my phone, maybe I'll stop being slack and finally do it today.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"There's an oopsie!"??? This fucking guy deserves to get his apps pirated.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is an outdated app at beast, I think he wouldn't care, I hope it resurged though.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of processes which Android doesn't let you run anymore, eg how much CPU each app is using.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Uhm, we had an oopsie. Don't downvote me! Our r/programmerhumor specialists are working on it. Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 19 points 2 years ago

Franco was a nut. He did put out some nice android kernel mods though.

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

There are lots of reasons to pirate stuff, but this argument in particular boils down to "We should steal stuff now because maybe some day in the future I won't be able to use the paid version after they go out of business." And that is shitty.

You bought it, so go crack it now that the license check is broken and nobody will care. That's GOOD piracy. Support the creators, pirate when you can't or it's unreasonable to pay (more).

Don't just pirate to mitigate theoretical future inconvenience. Do it to circumvent actual inconvenience, or to get things you couldn't otherwise afford, or to say "fuck you" to big, shitty companies.

But pirating from a small-time dev just in case there are maybe license problems far in the future is not The Way

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I agree with you completely, indeed I just posted this as in a meme manner.

I love FKM and I paid for it even when it was clear the app wasn't going to be updated that much, I usually don't feel any kind of remorse while pirating, but now this is justified and that is good too.

Regardless this is a good reminder that this can happen anytime with any app or service, being a good or a bad one, having nice or asshole devs/teams behind, and for that piracy will always be a handy solution, I just wish that abandoned apps could somehow being open sourced automatically, but that is a dream.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's back on the store.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Fortunately it is!

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IMO if an app is pulled from Google Play their license verification should just return true.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I agree, gladly the app is back in the store... And it even got a very much needed update!

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anyone actually know why it got booted from the PS? I thought it was a maintained app. My favorite kernel manager.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I think because it has been a long time without any updates, hopefully somebody finds out if this is true.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

uwu kill me

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[–] sakuragasaki46@feddit.it 1 points 9 months ago

Anyone can pose as a small and broke dev to say anything against piracy

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