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> There is nothing wrong with data mining itself. It's completely neutral technology. Tesonet's Oxylabs offers "10+ Million Mobile IPs in Every Country and Eve
by krn 8y ago
> There is nothing wrong with data mining itself. It's completely neutral technology.
Tesonet's Oxylabs offers "10+ Million Mobile IPs in Every Country and Every City in the World"[1], which might explain why ProtonVPN, whose Android app is signed by Tesonet[2], is a free service. This is how Luminati, Tesonet's largest competitor in Residential Proxies, operates: it provides a free VPN service, Hola VPN, and then connects its users into a botnet[3], which is used for data mining operations.
[1] https://oxylabs.io/proxies/residential-proxies https://oxylabs.io/proxies/residential-proxies
[2] http://apkforandroid.org/com.protonvpn.android/34007825-protonvpn+-+unlimited+free+vpn+made+by+protonmail-1.0.0/ http://apkforandroid.org/com.protonvpn.android/34007825-prot...
[3] http://fortune.com/2015/05/29/hola-luminati-vpn/ http://fortune.com/2015/05/29/hola-luminati-vpn/
- steampunkskull 8y agoThis can easily be checked with tools like Wireshark. It's not hard to verify whether you are being used as an exit node for web scrapping or not.
- krn 8y agoIt turns out, that Luminati Networks Ltd sued UAB Tesonet over patent infringement in "Large-scale web data extraction products and services with residential proxy network (oxylabs.io)"[1] in July 2018. [1] http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/Litigation/DetailView?CaseID=Epee88Womxg%3D&logstat=false&Party=Luminati%20Networks%20Ltd.%20v.%20UAB%20Tesonet http://litigation.maxval-ip.com/Litigation/DetailView?CaseID...