They've gone well beyond the extension now. These days you have no idea if that "free" app you've installed has made a deal with Luminati to sell your bandwidth to the highest bidder. They also have an Android SDK too. I've received several emails like the following:
> My name is Lior and I lead the SDK partnerships at Luminati. I assume your
> software earns money by charging users for a premium subscription or by showing
> ads - both models do not pay out much and harm the user experience.
>
> We now offer you a third option.
>
> Luminati’s monetization SDK for Windows desktop provides your users the option
> to use the software for free, and in exchange we pay you $30,000 USD per month,
> for every 1M daily active users.
> More information is available on http://luminati.io/sdk_win.
> My name is Lior and I lead the SDK partnerships at Luminati. I assume your
> software earns money by charging users for a premium subscription or by showing
> ads - both models do not pay out much and harm the user experience.
>
> We now offer you a third option.
>
> Luminati’s monetization SDK for Windows desktop provides your users the option
> to use the software for free, and in exchange we pay you $30,000 USD per month,
> for every 1M daily active users.
> More information is available on http://luminati.io/sdk_win.