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Client list leaked in a Reddit post
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Luminati was approached for an interview by Nelson Rodrigues
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Mobdro disappears from the app store
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Two Reddit posts apeared and started a discussion about Modbro's disappearance and Luminati SDK involvment
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Those two Reddit posts were deleted
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The discussion about Modbro's Disappearance and Luminati's involvment continues on Twitter
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Article on Medium accusing Luminati of promoting piracy and breaking the law and with image of code
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Article reposted on Medium without image of code
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Article posted on Technadu linking to Medium article
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Tech Nadu decides to remove all mentions of Luminati and revise the articles
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Another article posted on Medium against Luminati with image of code
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Oxylabs, scrapinghub and data bricks hold a joint webinar addressing patent issues and other matters related to Luminati
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WEDF informs Luminati that they have been approached by multiple organizations
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Torrentfreak publishes article suggesting lack of transparency for Mobdro users joining Luminati network
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Another Medium article comes out claiming Luminati is contributing to copyright infringement done by and through the app
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Europol press release in regards to mobdro’s arrest
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Torrentfreak has contacted Luminati for a response on the mobdro affair and published their entire response
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Speakers at the World Ethical Data Forum got an email about Luminati
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Google removed suspension of Hola account and allowed uploading a version without the Luminati SDK
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Google play protect started marking out of store APKs with the Luminati SDK as dangerous apps
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Hola marked by play protect on Samsung store
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Hola re-approved on Samsung store
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Email sent about lum sdk to the Hola play store representative
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Hola is back on the play store
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Google play store came back explaining why the lum SDK is not compliant
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Google remove EarnApp (had the old SDK)
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Medium publishes another article saying Luminati is relying on illegal apps
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Google remove Desoline apps (had the old SDK)
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Google removed Hola VPN and suspended its account again, due to the Luminati SDK
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New EarnApp APK with new SDK were approved in playstore
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Desoline apps were removed from playstore due to the new Luminati SDK
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Google play BD got back for the first time to an email Or sent (as bright data, not as Hola) saying that they are checking
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Desoline app with the old SDK is back on playstore (after an appeal)
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Many APKs were disabled by google play protect saying they are Trojan
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Play BD gets back saying that the relevant team will shortly communicate with Luminati
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Partner using new SDK (new name) and being marked by play protect with the warning: “This app may be harmful”
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google play store terminated the whole hola account and did the connection between hola and bright data
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Google started disabling and removing Hola apps on user devices
They are treating Hola+Bright as one. The warning is: "This app can allow unauthorized access to your data or device" -
Reddit post about a letter from BrightData to the antipiracy forum who exposed the leaked Luminati clients list