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> So there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library into their apps that sells users network bandwidth.

This is yet another reason why we need to be wary of popular apps, add-ons, extensions, and so forth changing hands, by legitimate sale or more nefarious methods. Initially innocent utilities can be quickly coopted into being parts of this sort of scheme.




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