Luminati By almaaaa Aug 20, 2020 Client list leaked in a Reddit post Dec 3, 2020 Luminati was approached for an interview by Nelson Rodrigues Feb 11, 2021 Mobdro disappears from the app store Feb 12, 2021 Two Reddit posts apeared and started a discussion about Modbro's disappearance and Luminati SDK involvment Feb 13, 2021 Those two Reddit posts were deleted Feb 13, 2021 The discussion about Modbro's Disappearance and Luminati's involvment continues on Twitter Feb 15, 2021 Article on Medium accusing Luminati of promoting piracy and breaking the law and with image of code Feb 18, 2021 Article reposted on Medium without image of code Feb 18, 2021 Article posted on Technadu linking to Medium article Feb 22, 2021 Tech Nadu decides to remove all mentions of Luminati and revise the articles Mar 3, 2021 Another article posted on Medium against Luminati with image of code Mar 4, 2021 Oxylabs, scrapinghub and data bricks hold a joint webinar addressing patent issues and other matters related to Luminati Mar 7, 2021 WEDF informs Luminati that they have been approached by multiple organizations Mar 10, 2021 Torrentfreak publishes article suggesting lack of transparency for Mobdro users joining Luminati network Mar 11, 2021 Another Medium article comes out claiming Luminati is contributing to copyright infringement done by and through the app Mar 11, 2021 Europol press release in regards to mobdro’s arrest Mar 11, 2021 Torrentfreak has contacted Luminati for a response on the mobdro affair and published their entire response Mar 12, 2021 Speakers at the World Ethical Data Forum got an email about Luminati Period: Mar 13, 2021 to Apr 22, 2021 Pause Apr 23, 2021 Google removed suspension of Hola account and allowed uploading a version without the Luminati SDK Apr 24, 2021 Google play protect started marking out of store APKs with the Luminati SDK as dangerous apps Apr 26, 2021 Hola marked by play protect on Samsung store Apr 27, 2021 Hola re-approved on Samsung store Apr 27, 2021 Email sent about lum sdk to the Hola play store representative Apr 28, 2021 Hola is back on the play store Apr 29, 2021 Google play store came back explaining why the lum SDK is not compliant May 5, 2021 Google remove EarnApp (had the old SDK) May 5, 2021 Medium publishes another article saying Luminati is relying on illegal apps May 6, 2021 Google remove Desoline apps (had the old SDK) May 8, 2021 Google removed Hola VPN and suspended its account again, due to the Luminati SDK May 8, 2021 New EarnApp APK with new SDK were approved in playstore May 13, 2021 Desoline apps were removed from playstore due to the new Luminati SDK May 13, 2021 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 May 17, 2021 Desoline app with the old SDK is back on playstore (after an appeal) May 18, 2021 Many APKs were disabled by google play protect saying they are Trojan May 20, 2021 Play BD gets back saying that the relevant team will shortly communicate with Luminati May 24, 2021 Partner using new SDK (new name) and being marked by play protect with the warning: “This app may be harmful” May 26, 2021 google play store terminated the whole hola account and did the connection between hola and bright data Jun 1, 2021 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" Jun 10, 2021 Reddit post about a letter from BrightData to the antipiracy forum who exposed the leaked Luminati clients list