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The Luminati angle is new, but the fact that free Hola users are used as peers or exit nodes is common knowledge among better informed users. I've warned others
by yohui 11y ago
The Luminati angle is new, but the fact that free Hola users are used as peers or exit nodes is common knowledge among better informed users. I've warned others of that fact in the past myself.
Of course, I imagine most users are not so well informed.
- 8chan 11y agoIndeed, I knew for a while too, but I let it go so long as all posts were made by humans. But selling an API at $20/GB (bandwidth you pay $0 for) to flood message boards and scrape search engines from random people's IPs without their consent is horribly unethical in my opinion. Edited to add: I also see it as a breach of trust in the original agreement, even if you were fully informed that by installing Hola you become an exit node. Originally you were an exit node for other humans, and this was reasonably "secure" due to the fact that Hola hadn't been reverse engineered yet. But when Hola released the first party flood/scrape API Luminati they changed the agreement after the fact, even if they didn't have to change the EULA to permit this.
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- prawnsalad 11y agoJust a heads up that the Hola network does not (yet) support HTTPS connections. Force HTTPS on the website and Hola will not longer use it.
- placeybordeaux 11y agoThis seems like it is the simplest solution, just plopping nginx in front of the PHP fourm code should solve the problem.