szszrk 20 hours ago

Nowadays it's called "residential IP proxy".

A lot of shady shit under that term. Used by all the harmful services - scammers, AI crawlers... :)

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  • giancarlostoro 20 hours ago

    Now that you mention it, I never used those, but I always did wonder how they do those.

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    • jabroni_salad 19 hours ago

      Someone googles "free VPN" so they can watch region locked videos and now their connection is a part of that network too. They may or may not realize that this is the arrangement.

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      • szszrk 16 hours ago

        Or his kid uses a free game with a lot of grinding, not knowing that the child's phone is now technically part of a botnet.

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