I’m with you on this one. Some of my projects are flooded with sus traffic from Brazil. I don’t believe there are a million eager Brazilian hackers targeting me in particular. It’s pretty clear from analysis that they’re all residential hosts running proxies, knowingly or otherwise.

The more concise word for this is “botnet”. Computers participating in one should be quarantined until they stop.

> unknowingly

Often times random shovelware apps will have these proxy SDKs embedded in them, and the only mention of it being part of the software is buried in some long ToS that nobody reads.

Sort of valid today.

But the more sites that require a residential VPN for normal use, the less legitimate that argument becomes.

You might want to learn how internets work today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation