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Yes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.

Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.

There was a research paper several years ago showing that the "residential IP" stuff is powered by botnets and compromised devices. Luminati is specifically called out.

Paper: https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...

Yes. Their hosted browser service is one of the best ones out there.

Now I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.