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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
by 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 agoThat 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 agoI 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 ago3 cents per user per month. Is that right? Is it hard to make 3 cents a month from a user?
- dickinson99 8y ago3 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.