Friday, October 16, 2015

XDA No Longer Recommends Dev-Host

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You might recall that back in 2012 we formed a relationship with file hosting site Dev-Host that granted XDA Recognized Developers/Themers/Contributors a free premium membership. It started off good, but then we started hearing about  excessive ads that simulate download buttons, fly-by malware APK attacks from Mobogenie, and reused (and potentially dangerous) short URLs. We’ve tried to work with Dev-Host to fix some of these issues, but they haven’t been willing to change their ways. And so we no longer recommend that XDA users (whether RD/RT/RC or not) use this service, and consider the many other (free) file hosting sites such as AndroidFileHost, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc. If you’ve ever made a thread on XDA that includes a Dev-Host link, we strongly encourage you to re-upload it to another file storage provider and repost the link back into the thread. That way, you’ll be helping the community purge these odious links. In a month from now, we will no longer allow new outgoing links to Dev-Host. We are currently in discussion with some popular, reliable sharing hosts to provide the best options for our developers and users. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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