moula · Terms

Terms of use

Written in plain language, on purpose. If any of this is unclear, the reading that favors your control over your own machine wins.

Last updated 7 July 2026.

1. What moula does

moula shows a single, short, text-only sponsored line in your editor's status bar and pays you a 70% share of the gross revenue on validated impressions and clicks. You install the extension, provide an account API key, and earn while sponsored lines are served. That is the whole arrangement.

2. Your account and payments

You are responsible for keeping your API key secret; it is stored on your machine in the operating system's secure credential store, not in plaintext. Earnings are calculated in exact micro-dollars and recorded per impression and per click. During the MVP, budgets are simulated and balances are display-only; when real payouts launch, eligibility is checked at signup so you never accrue a balance you cannot withdraw. You may not fabricate impressions or clicks (for example with bots or automation); we account for ad events on our servers and may withhold amounts traceable to fraudulent activity.

3. Your right to pause, block, inspect, and uninstall

This clause grants you rights; it does not take any away. At any time, for any reason, and without notice to us, you have the right to:

Pause moula — snooze it, enable presentation mode, or clear your API key.
Blockmoula's ads by any means you like, including third-party tools, firewall rules, or blocking our endpoints.
Inspect what moula runs on your machine, and audit its behavior and network traffic.
Uninstall moula, after which your editor is byte-for-byte identical to before you installed it.

Exercising any of these rights only pauses your earning. It is never a breach of these terms. We will never include an anti-circumvention clause that treats pausing, blocking, or removing ads as a violation, and we will never ship an update that works around a block you have put in place. Full stop.

4. The client is open-source and auditable

The moula client — the VS Code extension that runs on your machine — is open-source. You have the right to read its source, build it yourself, and verify that what runs on your machine matches what is published. We will not ship a client whose source you cannot audit. Revenue, billing, and fraud logic stay on our servers (so the marketplace cannot be gamed from the client), but everything that executes locally is yours to inspect.

5. Advertiser content

Sponsored lines are plain text (up to 100 characters) with a single https:// click-through, reviewed before they run. We are responsible for the marketplace, not for third-party sites you choose to open. Opening a sponsored link is always your choice.

6. Changes and honesty

We will describe features that are planned but not yet built as exactly that. Where these terms mention roadmap items (payouts, alternative payment rails, category blocking), those are commitments of intent, not claims that the feature already exists. If we change these terms materially, we will say what changed and why.

See also our Privacy policy, Security posture, and FAQ.