[Xposed Framework Modules] kotey:
Hi FatMinMin.

I thank you for all your contributions, even if you choose to stop doing so.

What I'm doing here is: trying to persuade you to reconsider.

While it's your choice; your ideas, your code, your time, your life, your reputation,

I beg you to reconsider your decision to stop developing this app.

I'll give you some food for thought.

Consider this:

My mom's home is adjacent to my sisters, in-laws and my second cousin's homes. Their household accounted for 11 grown ups (not counting children), 8 cars/suv and 3 bikes. There are twenty Android devices and two iOS for the parents and children. But only two credit cards belonged to only one person (and it's not even gold).

That is normal here where only 3% of the population own a credit card (my estimated guess) because of the economic reason (government/banking/employment etc)

In some areas (higher-income population) this might not be the case (I don't know) but the majority of us here are.

So while we here actually 'can' or 'want' to buy apps from online stores, we cannot because credit/debit cards are still a mandatory requirement and almost no one have it handy. (I have other issues: security, safety, privacy but it's off topic)

I was once excited when RIM announced that BBWorld users can buy/pay apps using their airtime credits or billing (so that Apple, Google and Nokia might follow suite). But I guess some government (mine included) don't like that idea very much because it's hard to track/tax such transaction (and the money's gone overseas). Plus, it didn't happen, at least till now. (Java Games bundled on dumb phones by Nokia and Samsung got it anyway, and people DO buy it!)

So we are left with null choices, live with crippled/trial/expired apps or apps with ads. And that is why mobile shops here 'sell' paid or cracked apps to be downloaded to customer's Symbian (in the past), jailbroken iOS and Android devices. While the government enforced (in collaboration with the BSA) genuine computer software, (thus we are obligated to buy original Microsoft Windows and/or Office using half or all our monthly income, believe me) this is not the case with mobile OS apps (Who can control that anyway? Maybe only Google/Apple themselves). Why here we pirate cheap mobile apps but not expensive computer software? Because we want it but we cannot buy it even the most honest person (think clerics or some professionals).

Like we all already know, most apps especially with AdMob are not intrusive, even some devs are very nice indeed (for example WiFi File Sender will not display ads for 7 days after a click) but there are some very aggressive or hostile advertisers out there. And we need something against that. The app dev might not realize his advertiser of choice is a rogue one, sometimes until several versions and complaints from users (been there, done that). I don't blame devs for putting ads, everybody needs to eat but sometimes people picked wrong partners to begin and they just realize it later, if ever.

I guess because here it's XDA, we don't do warez, that accelerated that conscience of guilt. But this ain't a pirating tool. From a point a point of view, it's better than any other ad blockers because it gave you choices what to pick and what not to, by default even (for example I like and use Link2SD so I leave it's ads be. If I used adblock, bakpinar won't get his deserved money then). Other ad blockers devs doesn't get bad reps because of their apps, AFAIK. AdFree dev deltafoxtrot is also a respected XDA member. The AdBlock (Firefox/Chrome) author got applauded for his works. So does other countless hosts-file based tools for any OS platform. Because hosts file history goes a long way, no one dares to accuse it as a circumvention tool, even governments. AND IT IS NOT. It doesn't mean if your approach is different then you are a bad guy for doing the same thing in a different way. That is called double-standard. That is why there exist non-host-file-based tools for Firefox such as Bluhell Firewall and Ghostery. And my gut tells me the way it works by hooking processes are the same, and nothing is wrong in that.

Back then, this app got featured on XDA Portal. Doesn't that said something? If this app is 'that bad' it won't get recognized, both by XDA and users. Admin/mods or other seniors might even warn you because of that 'warez tool' you uploaded. People will condemn from day one, devs and users. But that didn't happen did it?

I love the idea that while a low-end device is rooted, it's free from 'illegal apps' (other people terms, not me) to get rid of ads such as luckypatcher, or memory hogs such as a thousand kilobyte hosts file. Furthermore, it's not physically modifying byte codes so according to most licenses, modifying app codes voids the end-user license agreement while this method leaves the code intact (think turning off your TV while advertisement is on VS using PVR and fast-forward, in fact both are legal). While this is technically not entirely true, there is no law against memory/process patching that I know of, anywhere yet. (If so, game hack tools will be banned from PlayStore but they're all there, and it's the US and A company called Google, they just ban ad-blocking tools because that's their money, of course)

If it's not coming back from the (premature) death, then all I can do is missed it that much, grieve and then go back to the previous method, even it's old, evil and stupid because it has to be done, one way or another.

For behalf of good karma, please make the sources available somewhere so that some other dev (or me, though I doubt it) can someday continue the good work helping some 'helpless' people in some places in the world, where they don't have choices. I feel it this much because I don't even have the chance to contribute a single line of code to the cause I love to, and never will. If I ever continue this work, I'll do it here is XDA and will repo it to F-Droid if it happens the XPosed mods then won't consider it, and I'll even risk myself being banned from XDA by doing so (but why?)

But in the end, it's your choice because it is all yours.

P/S: Read my previous post about Scott R. Lemmon. He was a user privacy fighter who revolutionized the way we surf the web. And he died a HERO. In fact he's immortal, people still chanted his name even after 10 years he was gone. Big Brothers hate him but people love and deitify him. For me, I want that kind of immortality, the fact that I will also die someday, as Achilles put it thousands of years ago.