[hncommenter13]

Again, in the interests of historical accuracy, Crossrider did more than that. They actively provided monetization for traffic from installed apps.

I have in my email a post from longtime senior employee Yonatan Pesses to a LinkedIn group (then named "Downloadable Software Distribution & Monetization") for people working in the pay-per-install space. It is dated Dec 5, 2014, and it reads:

"Crossrider is offering an amazing monetization solution for your MAC traffic! Very easy implementation, with high user value!

Yonatan Pesses Crossrider"

I'd say that is pretty clearly more than just an SDK.

I also gather Pesses has recently left Kape: http://archive.is/QYtxD

[oefrha]

That’s about as innocent as Megaupload was as a file sharing website.