One article mentioned in the OP was discussed here:
Disrupting the largest residential proxy network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802748 - Jan 2026 (221 comments)
How does HN fare with scraper load? Is it just CDN and pay the extra bandwidth bill for anon hit requests?
How does HN fare with scraper load? Is it just CDN and pay the extra bandwidth bill for anon hit requests?