alt Hacker NewsResidential Proxies are the most emblematic technology of our era- a group of people looked at something that used to be considered a crime (botnets) and realized that if they just did it openly, no one would ever punish them.
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thomasahle • yesterday at 10:45 PM
TIL:
> Many providers build their proxy pools by partnering with device owners who agree to share their bandwidth, while others use embedded SDKs in free apps or VPNs.
WTF. That's just botnets.
Source: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/evading-re...
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BoorishBears • yesterday at 10:17 PM
Thank god for residential proxies.
Highly unethical but the way the internet is going they're the last anti-hero of a somewhat open internet
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I think they also have to operate in countries that don't mind shady things like this.