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jsheardyesterday at 12:46 AM1 replyview on HN

The meta these days is bundling dodgy SDKs which turn the device into a residential proxy, which then gets sold on to the highest bidder. Mostly AI companies, whose desire to scrape literally everything has driven demand for that type of malware into the stratosphere.


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walletdraineryesterday at 2:20 PM

Surely that doesn’t work very well on iOS devices unless you’re actively holding the location api open or something, which would be noisy.