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> some free game that does some lightweight scraping in the background as monetization What in the flying **. Is this a common thing?
by notachatbot123 2y ago
> some free game that does some lightweight scraping in the background as monetization
What in the flying **. Is this a common thing?
- dns_snek 2y agoFor some definition of "common", yes. Some try to be less shady by asking for consent (e.g. in exchange for in-game credits), others are essentially malware. For example: https://bright-sdk.com/ https://bright-sdk.com/ > Bright SDK is approved by Apple, Amazon, LG, Huawei, Samsung app stores, and is whitelisted by top Antivirus companies.
- naikrovek 2y agothe idea that games should be written solely to extract revenue from players is so repulsive to me that I actively disrespect and disfavor people I know who work on things like this. humans are a truly horrible species and this kind of thing is a great example of why I believe that.
- internet101010 2y agoThat's every billion dollar publisher that releases games with initial purchase + microtransactions beyond cosmetics. So Activision/Blizzard, EA, Take Two, and Ubisoft. Like it's one thing to do free-to-play + pay-to-win but it's quite another to charge $60 and then make the game worse solely to drive people to buy things that will make it suck less. And they all do it.
- chatmasta 2y agoFYI this is a rebranding of the notorious “Luminati” service that sold a residential proxy network based on the ”Hola VPN” chrome extension. They’ve upped their game and now pay application developers to embed their botnet in their application.
- hypeatei 2y agoResidential IPs are extremely valuable for scraping or other automation flows so yeah getting kids to run a free game that has malware seems plausible.