alt Hacker NewsThose apps just shouldn't exist.
I don't know how "join your users to a botnet" became some kind of legitimized monetization scheme. Ads are bad enough. What's next? "Participate in a DDOS in order to use our app?"
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NopIdoN • today at 3:35 AM
"train our machine to identify traffic lights" or something
Sometimes it's botnet, sometimes it's just accessing netflix without hitting big IP range bans.
If there are proxy apps that only do the latter sort of work than I'm actually in favor of them existing and being widespread.