[webdevetc]

There are companies out there that offer proxies from 'real' US resident IP addresses. I think these companies use tactics like this to be able to offer real residential IPs (and not IP ranges belonging to hosting companies)

This is the first one that came up on google - https://stormproxies.com/ - I'm not saying that specific company is in any way related to this device or tactic (it is just the first on google for 'residential address ip proxy', but I think it is companies similar to this that will pay people for access to their routers and sell that access.

[walrus01]

What I find noteworthy about that stormproxies website is that unlike any sort of legit ISP, there's no information on what company is actually behind it, phone number, mailing address/street address, etc. I bet if you played follow the money with its credit card payments the money goes to a bank account in Cyprus or something.

It's a slick html template and some marketing text masquerading in front of a service obviously sold to greyhat/blackhat end users.

(perspective: I work for a legit ISP that has real things that physically exist in many POPs at layer 1 in the OSI model).

[joshmn]

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

[r1ch]

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.

[walrus01]

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.

[beachy]

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/Hercu...

[abraham_lincoln]

3 cents per user per month. Is that right?

Is it hard to make 3 cents a month from a user?

[dickinson99]

3 cents more than what you were making before. It's free money

[TACIXAT]

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.

[ss2003]

The other big player is Hola.