The mental hospital cannot stop me. The mods cannot stop me. The government cannot stop me. Mojang is now a modder. Now who is NE?
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@MinecraftModded
PSA: Predatory monetization companies are targeting Minecraft mods/modders
Got this as a DM on CurseForge:
> Hey squeek502!
>
> I see you’re putting in work on AppleSkin, it looks awesome!
>
> We’re redacted, and we offer passive monetization with no ads or UX clutter.
>
> - $20K/month for 100K daily active users
> - No banners, no AdBlock losses, fully Mojang EULA-compliant
> - No exclusivity: works alongside CurseForge, Modrinth, Patreon, etc.
>
> If you’re curious, I can send over the SDK + demo. Takes 15 mins to check out.
>
> Let me know!
These sorts of companies have also targeted web extension developers in the past with the same sort of spiel:
https://sponsor.ajay.app/emails/
They claim to "connect users’ IP addresses to their peer-to-business network." In other words, they want to use mod users' residential IP addresses to do things like scrape the web (among other, potentially much more shady, things).
Any modder that takes them up on their offer would be likely be agreeing to secretly (?) siphon off the bandwidth of their mods' users to serve whatever that company's (or its clients'?) purposes are (i.e. the monetization SDK would make random web requests from your IP in the background while you play Minecraft).
Some more info:
https://spur.us/residential-proxies-the-legal-botnet-that-nobody-talks-about/
(note: I'm not including the company's name in an effort to avoid promoting them)
https://redd.it/1m73ila
@MinecraftModded
Got this as a DM on CurseForge:
> Hey squeek502!
>
> I see you’re putting in work on AppleSkin, it looks awesome!
>
> We’re redacted, and we offer passive monetization with no ads or UX clutter.
>
> - $20K/month for 100K daily active users
> - No banners, no AdBlock losses, fully Mojang EULA-compliant
> - No exclusivity: works alongside CurseForge, Modrinth, Patreon, etc.
>
> If you’re curious, I can send over the SDK + demo. Takes 15 mins to check out.
>
> Let me know!
These sorts of companies have also targeted web extension developers in the past with the same sort of spiel:
https://sponsor.ajay.app/emails/
They claim to "connect users’ IP addresses to their peer-to-business network." In other words, they want to use mod users' residential IP addresses to do things like scrape the web (among other, potentially much more shady, things).
Any modder that takes them up on their offer would be likely be agreeing to secretly (?) siphon off the bandwidth of their mods' users to serve whatever that company's (or its clients'?) purposes are (i.e. the monetization SDK would make random web requests from your IP in the background while you play Minecraft).
Some more info:
https://spur.us/residential-proxies-the-legal-botnet-that-nobody-talks-about/
(note: I'm not including the company's name in an effort to avoid promoting them)
https://redd.it/1m73ila
@MinecraftModded
sponsor.ajay.app
Emails I get from scammers
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