Looks like Luminati is also explicitly getting developers to put a luminati proxy client into their apps and have users opt into using that instead of getting fed advertisements.

https://luminati.io/faq

Between your link, and the luminati faq's, I definitely have more questions then when I started looking at these articles.

Luminati didn't start off like that. They started by burying what they were doing in a "free" vpn.

I asked, and they are only interested in partners with 100k active users a month. They REALLY REALLY wanted to talk to me over skype. Right, like a legitimate company with that many users is going to use luminati.

The use case of luminati is almost entirely grey/black hat. Their history is laughably sketchy. Unless anybody knows of any apps that use the SDK and ask for permission, I suspect that FAQ page is just for show. Again you have to be a big player to even use it, it's not a stretch to believe they don't "enforce" the consent rule.

Wow, very interesting read. Thanks for bringing this to light.

Wow, that's a good read.