Comment by Johnny555

Comment by Johnny555 4 hours ago

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Too bad AWS didn’t get that memo, 200GB would cost $18 there, and somehow the company in the original post is paying $500 for that bandwidth with whoever their proxy host is.

suchintan 4 hours ago

Haha unfortunately we use residential proxies under the hood to simulate real users (as you'd expect from AI agents), where bandwidth is significantly more expensive!

  • donmcronald 4 hours ago

    How does a residential proxy work? Do people rent out their internet connections to commercial services?

    • mike_d 3 hours ago

      Computers getting infected with malware, pre-compromised cheap internet devices from Amazon/Wish.com, and game developers monetizing "free" games by running proxies in the background.

      There are usually a few layers of resellers so technically the proxy provider can throw their hands up in the air and say they are unaware of any malicious activity.