Additionally, there's almost no ethical use for a residential proxy. The purpose is always to deceive, at best you get lightly unethical uses like "avoiding georestrictions on IP distributors like netflix", or "avoiding controls in dictatorships" which is acknowledging that it is used to break the law, but maybe it's the wrong kind of law.

Even these soft reasons to use VPNs and residential proxies are like an alibi for bad actors, is IP 25.14.xx.xx creating a fake account on twitter to spread malware or is he downloading a show that wasn't available before? I guess we'll never know such are the limits of privacy I guess.