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Funnily enough, this is completely true, no speculation required. Honeygain is owned by Oxylabs, and so is JumpTask. Honeygain was first established in Belarus.
by HPUnEb 3y ago
Funnily enough, this is completely true, no speculation required. Honeygain is owned by Oxylabs, and so is JumpTask.
Honeygain was first established in Belarus. Not physically, there was just some dude whose name was used for legal purposes. The guy did exist for real, but did not have any power in Honeygain. You can check some older PR articles where the location of the articles are Minsk, Belarus. They did not put any effort to remove it.
Anyway, we still worked from Oxylabs office in Lithuania. After political turmoil in Belarus, Honeygain had to "make a move" so they "moved" to Lithuania and established UAB Honeygain. This happened rather recently and every employee that got greenlight for transfer had to quietly change their workplace in Linkedin. By quietly I mean not to make an announcement like "started new position at Honeygain". The thing is, they did not realize that past workplaces are clearly visible and you had cought them, OP.
To mitigate some possible risks, there were plans to act like Oxylabs "acquired" Honeygain. That was the narrative they had in mind and started a campaign regarding the announcement of Oxylabs partnership with Honeygain. There are still articles floating around about it, and they are trying to scrape it off the face of earth for whatever reason. It's chaotic to say the least.
As for JumpTask, it was created as a way to pay Honeygain users less. And it should raise suspicions even without insider information as to why JumpTask, a completely unknown project with no investors and nothing, immediatelly got a partnership with Honeygain, arguably the biggest passive income application in the world. It's just plain weird. Not weird when you know that JumpTask was created by Honeygain, and Honeygain was created by Oxylabs.
You should poke around the JumpTask "About us" page and the Linkedin accounts of the key members there. You should find the same thing there, previous employments at Oxylabs and whatnot. There are quite a few names like that in general (formerly at Oxylabs, currently at JumpTask). Only the new batches of hires start immediatelly at Honeygain or JumpTask. Another tip would be to check the archived versions of JumpTask "About us" page. People changed and they may still have some information hiding in plain sight (Linkedin, that is, or internet as a whole where articles matter).
Source: former employee of all three products.
- Whistlethis 3y agoWell this is fun. So tell us then did Honeygain get created so nordvpn could use their IPs for streaming and also sell to competitors as lexistream? Tell us about the lexistream creation if you are in fact an ex employee. Also would love to hear your take on shortcuts taken by honeygain to acquire IPs as I’ve heard about botnet usage.
- HPUnEb 3y agoAt its core, Honeygain was created to supply Oxylabs with proxies. Residential IP addresses are very valuable in this market but they are not easy to acquire. Giving people money for allowing their IP address to be used for various purposes in the proxy field is a good venture. However, since you have to pay the users, it can hardly be profitable. That's why JumpTask and Lexistream (yup, Lexistream is also a product of Oxylabs/Honeygain team :) ) were created. JumpTask allows them to pay users less whereas Lexistream allows the usage of IPs acquired via Honeygain to be used for streaming purposes (as its called there - Content Delivery or CD) and as an channel of revenue by selling those streaming IPs to VPNs and whatnot. Now, of course, most of these streaming IPs are sold on the inside for products that are under Tesonet's portfolio. NordVPN is the biggest client, needless to say. They also supply Surfshark. These IPs are sold for Tesonet at a lower price since they are all connected. The prices for "outsiders", such as Cyberghost or Windscribe are bigger. You could argue that this is nothing TOO bad about this, but think about the power dynamics here. Think why streaming services such as Netflix work so well with NordVPN as opposed to other VPNs? When you control the pool (via Lexistream, Honeygain, Oxylabs and so on), you have control on which IPs to give to whom. Favoring NordVPN, they give actually good quality IPs to them and a mixed bag for "outsiders". They can also simply turn off the streaming feature for certain IPs to keep Nord and other buddies in check, as in, keeping them the most reliable VPN when it comes to streaming. This gives a competitve edge as you may understand. Finally, in regards to botnet usage in IP acquisition, I can surely say that this is not true. No shortcuts taken in the acquisition of IPs.
- Whistlethis 3y agoAdd me on telegram @mediamonkey77 Chat soon!
- xtc777 3y agoWhat are the main competitors of Lexistream? Do they even have any serious competitors for this streaming business?
- yegor 3y agoInteresting/juicy details here.