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Luminati.io merely uses the Hola extension to power a massive residential IP network. Hardware is so 2000.

• TACIXAT 8y ago
  This is honestly a pretty neat idea. Don't get me wrong, it's sketchy as hell and I'm sure gets abused, but residential proxies... well played.
• r1ch 8y ago
  They've gone well beyond the extension now. These days you have no idea if that "free" app you've installed has made a deal with Luminati to sell your bandwidth to the highest bidder. They also have an Android SDK too. I've received several emails like the following: > My name is Lior and I lead the SDK partnerships at Luminati.​ I assume your > software earns money by charging users for a premium subscription or by showing > ads - both models do not pay out much and harm the user experience. > > We now offer you a third option. > > Luminati’s monetization SDK for Windows desktop provides your users the option > to use the software for free, and in exchange we pay you $30,000 USD per month, > for every 1M daily active users. > More information is available on http://luminati.io/sdk_win http://luminati.io/sdk_win.
  • walrus01 8y ago
    That is sketchy and unethical as fuck. I would like to give them an A+ rating for whatever graphic artist drew their artwork and did the CSS/webpage layout, however.
    • abraae 8y ago
      I dunno, to me the icon is reminiscent of the Hades character from the Disney movie: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/c/cf/Hercules-disneyscreencaps.com-6022.jpg https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/c/cf/Hercu...
  • abraham_lincoln 8y ago
    3 cents per user per month. Is that right? Is it hard to make 3 cents a month from a user?
    • dickinson99 8y ago
      3 cents more than what you were making before. It's free money
  • lapnitnelav 8y ago
    >Israeli company >Sketchy as fuck Can't say I'm surprised.