“So if you as an app developer include such a 3rd party SDK in your app to make some money — you are part of the problem and I think you should be held responsible for delivering malware to your users, making them botnet members.”
Companies pay app developers to embed SDKs that sell users’ bandwidth as residential proxies. AI scrapers rent those proxies and hammer small servers. The users never see it happen. Apple, Microsoft, and Google could stop it.