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hofrogs11/04/20252 repliesview on HN

A hair salon is a legitimate business. "Residential proxies" have very little legitimate use, and are sourced by unethical means, so it's not a fair comparison.


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walletdrainer11/04/2025

>"Residential proxies" have very little legitimate use

You have to be joking. Having seen a list of biggest Luminati contracts, legitimate use makes up probably well over 90% of traffic via these services.

It’s companies like Expedia and OpenAI, not Nigerian princes.

Yeah sure, fraud happens. Those customers aren’t even lucrative because posting scam ads on Craigslist or wherever does not use much bandwidth. Criminals also use Google search.

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Dylan1680711/04/2025

Watching netflix is plenty legitimate in my book.

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