Comment by szszrk

Comment by szszrk 20 hours ago

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Nowadays it's called "residential IP proxy".

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

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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  discordance 10 hours ago
  
  I would like to know more about this. Got a source?
  
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  zinekeller 9 hours ago
  
  It's hard to find a source that isn't paywalled, but fortunately it's covered in a paper: https://www.xiaojingliao.com/uploads/9/7/0/2/97024238/ndss21...
  
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