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by garbthetill 301 days ago
hola vpn is such an interesting case of a money printer, host a simple vpn and present it as free, give the users datacenter ips that are easy to detect. meanwhile you get their precious residential ip's and print millions a month
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The recent feud between founders is bound to reveal more interesting aspects of their business: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2021-07-01/ty-... / https://archive.vn/o5ujG
Thanks for the great read, so much to unpack from that article the click fraud stuff is to be expected, keeping track of everything that goes through their proxy is also expected, but copying files is crazy and this could unravel to a class action

but with that being said, if you are doing something shady/grey area to get ahead you best give everyone a cut of the pie, especially your blood brother