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Remember guys, this is why we don't pay for the apps. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by kratoz29@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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 Even when it was outdated (which I think that's the cause it got booted from the PlayStore?).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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

Ublock Origin kicks up repeated warnings for this.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Thank you, and yes pureapk is a trash site.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Thanks, I'll check that out :)

Nice to see this app still strong.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

My device is rooted :/

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 19 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] neatchee@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 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 11 months 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.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)

okay but if that's your purpose then there's no problem with purchasing and pirating at the same time.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's back on the store.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Fortunately it is!

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (4 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 11 months ago

uwu kill me

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[–] sakuragasaki46@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

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