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oasisbob • today at 4:23 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Some people making money off it, it's a whole value chain:

- Residential proxy providers

- Hosting providers with IP-rotation as a service.

- Hosting providers who chase AI training customers, DigitalOcean is a big one

- Clouds like AWS with headless browsing as a service

- Platforms like Replit whose value proposition starts to fall apart if clients can't make requests from their platform.

- Companies like meta, whose existing bots are now obviously completely unchained from their advertised responsibilities