We have already talked on several occasions about the problems that developers have to monetize your apps. So many are forced to finally sell those apps that have become the favorites of many users. These sales mean, in certain cases, that the user experience is totally changed.
This is where we find ES File Explorer, one of the best file explorers that we have had in Android, but that, in recent times, since it was acquired, has become full of advertising, intrusive and heavy in the use of resources. But it is now when they have really crossed the line so that they give us the perfect excuse to uninstall it.
ES File Explorer is now offering a option called Charging Boot which supposedly makes the phone charge 20% faster. This functionality is totally false and the best excuse to permanently remove this app from the phone.
Charging Boost appears in the middle of the main ES File Explorer screen and also in the tools section in the browser. Once it is active, it claims that speeds up charging by 20%. What is not really explained is how this feature works, but the reality is that it takes you to a lock screen that is totally full of advertising and that offers some basic information about the load, but nothing more than this.
Those who have purchased the application will be looking for a way to monetize it, but it seems that they don't have that left hand necessary to know that there are certain limits that should not be exceeded at any time, and everything seems that they have gone well to recommend the uninstallation of this application.
One that was everything and now it has practically become a hoax.
[Updated] You can access remove advertising through the paid version.
Hello, for me this was the best application to manage files because among other things it lets you copy files from the pc to the cell phone and vice versa. Now what application can I use to supplement this?
use airdroid to transfer any file to the pc or vice versa
I continue to use the ES File Explorer APP although in the PRO version that all this that is discussed here does not happen. Take advantage of one of those offers of the week to buy it for just 0,10 euros.
Greetings friend.
Exactly. And nothing happens.
File explorers you have several. I use Total Commander which has everything. And then apps like @vitor says like airdroid or pushbullet.
Regards!
For me it is the best, I did not find anything FREE that is not even similar ... the advertising there on the main screen does not really bother me.
I had tried one of xda that I do not remember what it was called and google play later recommended to uninstall it x insecure
If I have the PRO version (anyway, take advantage of an offer), and I ignore the boss charger (nor have I noticed if it offers it to me); is it good app? I would like to hear a review of the paid version, to know if it is worth removing or not.
I feel obliged to make the following comment. Publish this article promoting punishing this application for intrusive advertising. I agree with the article, my surprise has been that I remember another article of yours recommending an alternative, therefore, from my smartphone I enter the web and I find full-screen advertising on my smartphone and making it totally impossible to see or press reasonably about searching your page. My question is, being consistent, do I punish you in the same way?
I follow you, for a long time by means of RSS, when in your principles you put evaluations, opinions and advice on both applications and the use of smarphone. Now a great majority of news is from the analysis of smarthpones and to say how wonderful they are, another question that I already answer, have you already sold for a long time too, what if?
What I mean is you do not have the right to write this article, which I am answering from my computer that indicates 22 blocks by adblock! You have no journalistic criteria, far from it. As they say, you have to lead by example.
It is neither punishment nor anything like that. Thanks for your comment Gaby, but I have also had ES File Explorer installed for a long time. But it has fallen into other hands because the developer did not find a way to monetize it.
The same thing happened to QuickPic. Sold to others to find a way to receive the money used for their purchase in exchange. Logically they have to find a way to recover that money, but this update with this news that many blogs collect, leads us to find a new functionality that completely goes out of line by flooding the application with advertising.
An application that has been of great value to us and which is a shame to find in this way. As Francisco, my partner, says, you have the option of paying for it and removing the advertising. Which by the way, here we also find the problem of "free everything" and the effects that it produces in the long run, that it falls into the hands of a group that cares a lot about the user experience from the free version, and fill it with advertising everywhere.
Greetings and thanks again for your comment. It is neither the first nor the last of those apps loved by all that will go through this.
I have it installed. I use it daily. And I DO NOT change or uninstall it. Ah! I almost went bankrupt with your purchase: € 0,10 (Yes, I was not wrong, ten cents ...)
Thank you Manuel for your comment but it does not justify what I was saying. The same pity I feel with your articles and page, that I do not read 10% lately because I only get comments from smartphones that if it were for your recommendations I would have to buy them all, which are all wonderful, the ones that you publish of course, the others no. The same thing happens with applications, I have been tempted many times to try applications that you say are wonderful and I was disappointed to see that not much less, also that they are applications that need to be promoted because they still do not have enough weight in the PlayStore and who want to compete with other existing ones.
I have had this feeling for a long time, but hey, your impartiality can be assessed if one day I decide to take out an application and contact you, to see if you give me an assessment, either positive or negative.
In short, you cannot justify that you publish this article because someone else has also published it. Criticizing aggressive advertising must be done by setting an example first, and not putting annoying pop-ups on your website.
Or install the latest version before including the bloatware
You have to be an idiot to install advertising apps.