[About XDA developers] Dycast:
ADWARE File Hosting Should be BANNED..

A message I would like to get across to ALL XDA members and users.

Anyone claiming to have a ROM, MOD, update, etc. and want RESPECT or THANKS for it should NOT be using Mediafire, or any of the other BS file hosting sites I have come across again and again while browsing these forums. Even the forums themselves are nearly impossible to browse via cell phone, I've tried both XDA labs and XDA Forums google app, the later has next to no options for searching, and nearly always goes to homescreen after trying to go backwards from a search. From my main computer scrolling down on a device 'tree' of it's forums and all of a sudden POOF, here's an ad popped off from the side and taking up half the visible screen, making it nearly impossible to select threads for half of the device forums without carefully scrolling up and down.

Once finding something you think looks good for your device, you better look close! unless it is posted using the in-house files, or androidfilehosting, or MEGA, it is probably going to be EXTREMELY difficult to a) find the actual download link, as you will go thru 15+ pages of spam before seeing it, b) no longer exist, or c) be so god damn frustrating to find the download link you get as pissed and frustrated as I am and want to write the exact same thing I am writing right now. -- Don't be bashful, I know probably even the most admired developers are chuckling at this, because THEY HAVE BEEN THERE! Come on people, I understand Ads make a few bucks here and there, but I can PROMISE you, I will NEVER support them and I am NEVER going to 'donate' to any so called 'dev' that is so desperate they have to hide there product behind a wall of advertising crap that infects every users browser in order to download there so called 'great app', because by the time anyone gets to your 'awesome app' it's garbage due to how much abuse you just put your 'customer' thru.. BAN THE ADS! Get a FREE account, it's not that hard, I have over 150gbs online free storage that I don't even use just from accumulation, XDA In my opinion should have an exclusive with androidfilehosting if they don't already, which is one of the best resources any dev could ever ask for to make there 'product' available without causing so much headache that the end user doesn't care anymore.

Trust me, I've been on both sides of this fence, I have created programs and sold them - on sites that DID NOT USE ADVERTISING, and made thousands. I've also 'fished' for programs, src code, cracks, hacks, you name it. If it's a HACK I'm looking for or a program that I SHOULD be paying for that I'm attempting to find for FREE, then YA, I expect to run across a bunch of BS to download it. So remember that, your not sharing a UNIQUE PRODUCT, you are just making available a HACK, something that is NOT unique and should be freely available to purchase from a trusted source, OR YOU CAN FISH BEHIND WALLS OF SPAM for it.

I hope I have gotten a point across, I dearly enjoy and THANK every developer out there who has put any time into a product, but please guys, lets stop this ridiculousness! Either make it available, or say right up front that it's gonna cost ya. I promise the end result will be much better and much less disappointing for both ends.