BlueMonday1984Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026
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BasiqueEvangelistOh god, Bright Data…
I know of them because they were trying to get into the Minecraft modding sphere by offering people to put their ““SDKs”” into their mods. (though not the full SDK initially, just Telemetry™ about what kinds of computers modded players have)
notes.highlysuspect.agency/…/who_is_bright_data/ has more info about it
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