It's 10 pm on a Sunday. My FIL is texting me business plans from the slop hole as I try to get the last kiddo down to sleep. He wants me to read them to my wife, who already mad at him about it.
Thanks, this is a nifty read; I'm appreciating having a look into the world of the bastards who are ruining the web with residential proxy/botnet operations. I had kind of (mistakenly) assumed that the scrapers mostly relied upon IoT trash and hacked Fire sticks. We really can't have nice things anymore, huh?
The company is embroiled in legal action in Israel. After it filed suit against a former employee, he countersued, alleging that Luminati is widely used for click fraud. As part of the suit, it was revealed that the spyware company NSO Group was a Luminati client.
Well that escalated quickly
PS: i really really wish my special interests would quit touching
Wew, Cory Doctorow sure is posting through it
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism