Saw this over at the WeatherPanel forum, didn't see it picked up here. This quotes the entire posting, found at:
http://pixel.citadel.org/weatherpan...&start=0&sid=bae911b5f8624b96a0cdb79e76b83e4f
For those that don't know, weatherpanel gets it's data from a weather.com XML feel. I am subscribed to this service as well and I got this email notification today...
The important and alarming part I have highlighted
Quote:
Dear XXXXXXXXX:
We are contacting you because you are a registrant for the weather.com XML Data Feed (the “Service”). We are providing you with IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE CONTINUATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE. Your registered application may or may not currently be in compliance with the terms of our agreement (please refer to the developer SDK containing the license agreement – see link below). We are in the process of updating the Service to programmatically validate certain licensing conditions. Beginning May 6, 2008, if your application is not in compliance with these terms, the Service will no longer return data to your application.
The complete terms and conditions surrounding the use of the Service can be found in the developer SDK along with graphical icons that are necessary to represent the sky conditions associated with our current conditions and forecast data, and our logo. This SDK can be accessed by clicking on the link below.
http://download.weather.com/web/xoap/sdk.zip
You may update your user profile or change your product selections at any time by logging in to the weather.com registration system with the following information:
Sign-In Page: https://registration.weather.com/ursa/xmloap/step2
E-mail address: XXXXXXXXXX
The Service includes:
• city search capability for all locations covered by www.weather.com;
• location specific information necessary for data presentation;
• current condition information (Observations) for the selected location; and
• up to five (5) days of forecast information (the current day’s forecast plus four additional days of forecast information in consecutive order beginning with tomorrow’s forecast) for the selected location in ten (10), 12-hour day-parts.
VERY IMPORTANT
YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE TO CREATE WEATHER AND WEATHER-RELATED PRODUCTS TO BE DISPLAYED ON HANDHELD OR OTHER WIRELESS DEVICES.
YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH AMONG OTHER THINGS, ANY BROADCAST TELEVISION, INTERACTIVE TELEVISION, CABLE TELEVISION, TELEPHONE OR DSL SERVICES, DIGITAL CABLE SERVICES, HEAD-END-IN-THE-SKY SATELLITE SYSTEMS, RADIO, PRINT PUBLICATIONS, DIGITAL BROADCAST SATELLITES, TELEMATICS, TELETEXT, VIDEO-ON-DEMAND, KIOSKI DISPLAY, OR OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE INFORMATION DISPLAY UNIT, WIRE-LINE TELEPHONE, OR AS ALL OR PART OF ANY STREAMING VIDEO OR AUDIO CONTENT OR FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP APPLICATION.
YOU MAY NOT USE ANY LATITUDE OR LONGITUDE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A LocID OR ZIP CODE EVEN IF SUCH INFORMATION IS RETURNED AS PART OF AN XML DOCUMENT FROM THE XML FEED.
USE OF THE SERVICE IN VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF YOUR AGREEMENT WITH TWCi MAY RESULT IN YOUR IMMEDIATE TERMINATION AND PAYMENT OF MONETARY DAMAGES TO TWCi.
To comply with the terms of the Agreement, Your Website or Desktop Application must, among other things:
• display weather data for no more than three (3) locations at a time;
• adhere to the data request rules, usage rules, and refresh rates outlined in Exhibit B of the Agreement;
• clearly separate TWCi data from other data within a single visual element;
• identify that the weather data comes from TWCi by incorporating The Weather Channel logo containing an embedded link to the www.weather.com home page (one of 5 Required Links);
• provide four (4) promotional links, selected by TWCi and provided through the Service on each data call, back to www.weather.com for additional weather information in close proximity to the TWCi Content as set forth in Exhibit B of the Agreement; and
• be free of charge to your end-users.
If you cannot meet these requirements but would still like to use our weather data, please contact our business development department at 770-226-0000.
Thank you for your continued support!
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Check out other tools by The Weather Channel at http://www.weather.com/services.
This is a transactional/relationship message that you are receiving because you registered for XML Data Feed by The Weather Channel. Click here to access your profile and products you are registered for at weather.com.
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Atlanta, GA 31139
It sounds like only a matter of time before weather.com discovers weatherpanel's xml feed ID and blocks it from downloading updates...
The good part is that the feed weatherpanel uses is specified by the validity check on the server... but this is still going to cause a lot of headaches.
Thought you guys should be made aware of this.
I'll comment more on this later, but it's late, and I'm tired.
P.S. I think this is a shady under-handed tactic on weather.com's part. The quality of their service and programs has always been questionable and this just further solidifies those feelings of negativity towards weather.com (the weather channel) as a company as a whole.
PS can we get black text so that those of us with horrible eyes can actualy see what's going down?
In Black
For those that don't know, weatherpanel gets it's data from a weather.com XML feel. I am subscribed to this service as well and I got this email notification today...
The important and alarming part I have highlighted
Quote:
Dear XXXXXXXXX:
We are contacting you because you are a registrant for the weather.com XML Data Feed (the “Service”). We are providing you with IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE CONTINUATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE. Your registered application may or may not currently be in compliance with the terms of our agreement (please refer to the developer SDK containing the license agreement – see link below). We are in the process of updating the Service to programmatically validate certain licensing conditions. Beginning May 6, 2008, if your application is not in compliance with these terms, the Service will no longer return data to your application.
The complete terms and conditions surrounding the use of the Service can be found in the developer SDK along with graphical icons that are necessary to represent the sky conditions associated with our current conditions and forecast data, and our logo. This SDK can be accessed by clicking on the link below.
http://download.weather.com/web/xoap/sdk.zip
You may update your user profile or change your product selections at any time by logging in to the weather.com registration system with the following information:
Sign-In Page: https://registration.weather.com/ursa/xmloap/step2
E-mail address: XXXXXXXXXX
The Service includes:
• city search capability for all locations covered by www.weather.com;
• location specific information necessary for data presentation;
• current condition information (Observations) for the selected location; and
• up to five (5) days of forecast information (the current day’s forecast plus four additional days of forecast information in consecutive order beginning with tomorrow’s forecast) for the selected location in ten (10), 12-hour day-parts.
VERY IMPORTANT
YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE TO CREATE WEATHER AND WEATHER-RELATED PRODUCTS TO BE DISPLAYED ON HANDHELD OR OTHER WIRELESS DEVICES.
YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH AMONG OTHER THINGS, ANY BROADCAST TELEVISION, INTERACTIVE TELEVISION, CABLE TELEVISION, TELEPHONE OR DSL SERVICES, DIGITAL CABLE SERVICES, HEAD-END-IN-THE-SKY SATELLITE SYSTEMS, RADIO, PRINT PUBLICATIONS, DIGITAL BROADCAST SATELLITES, TELEMATICS, TELETEXT, VIDEO-ON-DEMAND, KIOSKI DISPLAY, OR OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE INFORMATION DISPLAY UNIT, WIRE-LINE TELEPHONE, OR AS ALL OR PART OF ANY STREAMING VIDEO OR AUDIO CONTENT OR FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP APPLICATION.
YOU MAY NOT USE ANY LATITUDE OR LONGITUDE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A LocID OR ZIP CODE EVEN IF SUCH INFORMATION IS RETURNED AS PART OF AN XML DOCUMENT FROM THE XML FEED.
USE OF THE SERVICE IN VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF YOUR AGREEMENT WITH TWCi MAY RESULT IN YOUR IMMEDIATE TERMINATION AND PAYMENT OF MONETARY DAMAGES TO TWCi.
To comply with the terms of the Agreement, Your Website or Desktop Application must, among other things:
• display weather data for no more than three (3) locations at a time;
• adhere to the data request rules, usage rules, and refresh rates outlined in Exhibit B of the Agreement;
• clearly separate TWCi data from other data within a single visual element;
• identify that the weather data comes from TWCi by incorporating The Weather Channel logo containing an embedded link to the www.weather.com home page (one of 5 Required Links);
• provide four (4) promotional links, selected by TWCi and provided through the Service on each data call, back to www.weather.com for additional weather information in close proximity to the TWCi Content as set forth in Exhibit B of the Agreement; and
• be free of charge to your end-users.
If you cannot meet these requirements but would still like to use our weather data, please contact our business development department at 770-226-0000.
Thank you for your continued support!
Your friends at The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. (a/k/a weather.com)
Check out other tools by The Weather Channel at http://www.weather.com/services.
This is a transactional/relationship message that you are receiving because you registered for XML Data Feed by The Weather Channel. Click here to access your profile and products you are registered for at weather.com.
If you have any questions or concerns about how we use your personal information, please read our privacy policy. We welcome your feedback.
Copyright © 1995-2008, The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.
The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.
P.O. Box 724554
Atlanta, GA 31139
It sounds like only a matter of time before weather.com discovers weatherpanel's xml feed ID and blocks it from downloading updates...
The good part is that the feed weatherpanel uses is specified by the validity check on the server... but this is still going to cause a lot of headaches.
Thought you guys should be made aware of this.
I'll comment more on this later, but it's late, and I'm tired.
P.S. I think this is a shady under-handed tactic on weather.com's part. The quality of their service and programs has always been questionable and this just further solidifies those feelings of negativity towards weather.com (the weather channel) as a company as a whole.
Thanks for the color translation
Thanks for transposing to black. Sorry for the color. I would have done it myself, but I forgot to set up email notifications of postings to this thread. Thanks for jumping in.
How has their service been questionable? Every time I go to weather.com I get exactly what I need.
ChumleyEX said:
How has their service been questionable? Every time I go to weather.com I get exactly what I need.
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fyi, those weren't my words, I quoted the full posting of the announcement from the WP forum (which is why I originally posted it in a different, albeit unreadable, color)
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Additionally, The Smart Projects complies with the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from Switzerland. The Smart Projects has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the US-Swiss Safe Harbor and to view our certification page, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.
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The Smart Projects commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. Residents of the EEA or Switzerland with inquiries or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy should first contact The Smart Projects at [email protected]
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CREDITS
Aleks Ch, Андрей Кравцов, sapfir1957 - Russian translation
giuskiller, Andrea Mollaretti - Italian translation
abdr1000, Abdoulmalek - Arabic translation
Marcelo Gonçalves - Portuguese translation
Joshua Wa - Indonesian translation
elbubi - Spanish translation
Daniel Motte - Spanish Latin America translation
Ali Kömesöğütlü, buğra özkul, Zeyneddin DİLEN - Turkish translation
Hdh Dhd - French translation
Anthony Mexas - Greek translation
Kornel Kornobis - Polish translation
PEDRO A S PAIVA - Brazilian Portuguese translation
Amir ali H.Z - Persian translation
Christer Johansson - Swedish translation
Katoji Rikito - Vietnamese translation
Tim Müller, Fritz Herrmann - German translation
XDA:DevDB Information
Root Cleaner, App for the Paid Software Discussion
Contributors
Juwe11
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 7.1.3
Stable Release Date: 2017-06-12
Created 2015-01-23
Last Updated 2018-10-25
Sounds interesting.
Looks interesting as well If possible, having a file/folder exclusion would be great as well
Where is the link?
Ok. Check it back on next month.
Where is download link?
Sent from my LG-P500 using xda premium
No download link, so where is the point of this? Go to general and post there [Future Apps]
hyping the app is good ...lol..
if this app comes, hope it will come ..
it should be installed in every android xda user's phone..
thanx in advance and waiting for this..
Application is available! Check it on Google Play!
Paid app?
how i can know if Root Cleaner delete only files that i dont need? i need app like this to clean up my SD card for some unused old files that apps maked but after uninstall not delted from storage.
Somethink like revo uninstaller for pc that also cleans register settings and leftover data that not deleted by the normal uninstall can this app see by itself wich leftover data belonges to an app that is already gone by normal android uninstalls? So make system nice and clean?
castaway1 said:
how i can know if Root Cleaner delete only files that i dont need? i need app like this to clean up my SD card for some unused old files that apps maked but after uninstall not delted from storage.
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Because it doesn't delete files, but only unused folders. Trust me that this application never deletes some useful file or folder.
djden said:
Somethink like revo uninstaller for pc that also cleans register settings and leftover data that not deleted by the normal uninstall can this app see by itself wich leftover data belonges to an app that is already gone by normal android uninstalls? So make system nice and clean?
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Yes this application makes your system clean and also it improves performance, as I said, it deletes all unused folders and many more.
Check new update http://bit.ly/RVlyJx
Amazing! Root Cleaner is 93 the most favourite application in tools category during 6 days from releasing http://bit.ly/WutINF thank you very much for your support!
Check new update.
Thank you very much for your support, application is now 88. the most favourite and number of downloads is still increasing. I will be also thankful if you positively rate this thread.
Root Cleaner has nearly more than 1000 downloads, it is great to achieve this in such a short time. http://bit.ly/WR7UvV
Check new version 1.1.2!
Trial version
Juwe11 said:
Check this link http://icyapps.com/application/root-cleaner application will be released on this Sunday.
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Where we can download the trial version.
apsanchezs said:
Where we can download the trial version.
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Trial version is not available, but if you download paid version and you are not satisfied, I will refund your money.
What extent, if any, do mobile phone text apps capture the keywords of its user's texts to send to ad networks in order to monetize it's apps?
I was reading the source code of the MOPUB ad network, and the source code stated:
"You can pass keywords from your app to MoPub as a comma-separated list in the ad view. They should be in the format of key value pairs (e.g. m_age:24). You can use any characters except for "&" and "=".
MPAdView *adView
= [[MPAdView alloc] initWithAdUnitId"AD_UNIT_ID" size:MOPUB_BANNER_SIZE];
adView.delegate = self;
adView.keywords = @"m_age:24,m_gender:m,m_marital:single";
[adView loadAd];
https://github.com/mopub/mopub-ios-sdk/wiki/Data-Passing"
So now I'm confused. We all know there are tons of text apps on apple/android, free and paid. I need to learn how these apps are able to make money for their company by reading the user's texts. My interest is the following:
1) Do apps read their user's texts to obtain data to send to MOPUB?
It appears from the code above that it is saying that when the text app users are texting their friends that words in the text that match the MOPUB's list of keywords is intercepted in real time, recorded, ie your age/gender, and then those keywords are sent to MOPUB to send advertising back to match those keywords. Am I reading the source code correctly? Is this happening on all text apps with the MOPUB source code?
2) Has anyone run any tests to capture this activity in real time so I can see how it is done.? I would appreciate any info on any work in this area.
Thanks,
media678
1) Extremely unlikely. It's far too complicated to interpret the context of a word like "24" or "male" or "single" on the fly on-device. Is that text referring to the sender, to their romantic expectations, to their current partner, or to their brother they're trying to get a date for? Or even to parts of a shopping list? Language is very complex, and an app that attempted to include that functionality, even poorly, would have 100x as much code trying to interpret keywords than they would have for the initial purpose of the app itself. It would use so much processing power that the app would run terribly and everyone would soon abandon that app. It's absolutely not economical.
It could possibly be done by sending a copy of every text to the developers server and doing the work there, but the cost of that kind of equipment would far exceed the revenue from showing the ads in the app. And after all the NSA media scandal, what company would be dumb enough to secretly intercept and store private texts? Sooner or later someone would notice, and the company would be in unbelievable legal trouble. It's not nearly worth the risk.
It's much more likely that the app generates basic keyword data with much simpler methods (such as asking you directly) or has a fixed list of generic keywords that's selected during development that they use to request ads. You're not reading the source code correctly. The ad service allows developers to request targeted ads via any method they choose, and does not imply that those methods must, or even can, include any hidden, on the fly, language-based data-gathering system.
There are probably no companies out there that are making any profit (or accomplishing anything else) by secretly reading users' texts.
2) Based on the above answer, there's nothing to capture. Google and Apple and Microsoft certainly do something similar with web usage, but they approach it very cautiously, protect it very carefully (even from themselves, in some senses), and guard the methods jealously. No one who can do it successfully is going to tell you how they do it.
If you really must know, you'll have to learn to decompile and reverse-engineer software, which is a slow and frustrating process and approaches illegal activity. You'll have to dig deeply into dozens or hundreds of text apps. And there's probably nothing there for you to find in the first place.
3) This doesn't have anything to do with Xposed Framework, and doesn't belong in this forum.
Also, your intentions appear to be either paranoid or invasive, and you seem to have some kind of obsession with the phrase "real time". You might want to take a step back and analyze your mindset here.
Text app capturing keywords dynamically
Sorry if I posted in the wrong location, I'm new here. I thought I was making a new thread in a general area.
As for a reply, its not an issue if it can be done, it's an issue how to do it properly. Integrate the MoPub SDK into your app.
Passing Keywords
Keywords allow you to target certain ad requests with user data. This feature is often used to differentiate a specific user demographic or users on different app versions.
You can pass keywords from your app to MoPub as a comma-separated list in the ad view. They should be in the format of key value pairs (e.g. m_age:24). You can use any characters except for “&” and “=”. Spaces are allowed, and special characters are discouraged.
MPAdView *adView
= [[MPAdView alloc] initWithAdUnitId"AD_UNIT_ID" size:MOPUB_BANNER_SIZE];
adView.delegate = self;
adView.keywords = @"m_age:24,m_gender:m,m_marital:single";
[adView loadAd];
MoPub recommends that the publishers use the standard keywords listed below for passing gender and age data. Applying this standard for passing first party data will result in targeted ads from the MoPub Marketplace and certain ad networks. Publishers who pass age and gender to Marketplace see an average lift of 20% in eCPMs.
For gender you would pass:
Example: m_gender:m for male or m_gender:f for female
For age you would pass:
Example: m_age:25
Using the same key value pairs, target campaigns using the keyword targeting function in the “Advanced Targeting” dropdown when managing campaigns on the MoPub Dashboard.
To target multiple keywords, use AND. If you want to use the OR clause, separate the keywords by a new line. To explicitly not target a property, put a “-” in front of the keyword.
Example: m_gender:m AND m_age:25
Example: m_gender:m
m_age:25
Negative Targeting: -m_age:25
To target a set of values for one keyword you need to explicitly pass each value with the keyword individually.
Example: fruit:apple AND fruit:banana AND fruitrange.
NOTE: This will only match line items which are targeting all three values (apple, banana, orange).
To negatively target a set of values for one keyword you’ll need to use the AND clause. For example to exclude a line item from being served when the ad requests contains the keyword fruit with the values set to apple, bananas, or oranges you would use the below express:
-fruit:apple AND -fruit:banana AND -fruitranges
Note: For native ads, you can pass in keywords using the MPNativeAdRequestTargeting class. See the Native Ads Integration guide.
PS: An app using software to capture real-time streaming wire data is a common reference, dynamic capture better?