Comment by ranger_danger 21 hours ago
This will also cause problems with anyone that happens to (even accidentally/unknowingly) use apps that integrate services from companies such as BrightData/Luminati/HolaVPN/etc. where they sell idle time on your device/connection to their VPN/proxy customers.
The legitimate end-user will then no longer be able to use e.g. SoundCloud.
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
I fail to see the problem if people that allow their internet connection used by scammers/AI crawlers are banned from every service