Due to the fact that unlike many respectable and honest developers who allow users to see when devfee process begins and ends, I suggest the following:
Block “dev2.teamredminer.com” within your router and then launch this software.
Check your router’s documentation to see if this feature is available. If not, you can always get a cheap Pi and install Pi-hole to block it.
Sure, you will be mining at a little slower rate but it’s worth it because you might have been losing a lot more!
FWIW, I am aware of at least 2 groups on github who have expressed their interest to investigate this software and make it much cheaper to use.
There is a penalty for blocking the dev fee in our miner, as I'm sure you've seen since the miner will constantly print error messages saying so when it can't connect to the dev pool.
If you are not comfortable paying a dev fee while using this software (or any other software), I suggest using open source miner software instead. There are many projects out there and I would be happy to point you to some if you can't find any yourself.
Looking through your post history I see you've been a proponent of removing the dev fee from Claymore's miner using various proxy hacks.
So it seems like you're being dishonest about your intentions, and disrespectful to miner developers by trying to cheat their dev fee.
In fact you have yourself clearly stated that you feel "entitled" to use other's hard work for free:
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As for competition discussion, I am actually a lot more acquainted in human nature who loves things with a shiny sticker that reads: FREE!
So, no matter how low CM and or any other mining software developer - including your upcoming software ask for, there will be always a huge percentage of us in this very forum complaining “how dare you ....” and ask for links to their FREE version - because humans are entitled to everything-free and or open-sourced so I can easily replace your wallet address with my own!