alt Hacker NewsGrey market residential proxy service providers are one of the most common methods of implementing bot spam, social media manipulation and plenty of straight-out fraud.
There's all kinds of things that malicious actors want to do where they value coming from an ordinary (comcast, charter, centurylink, shaw cable, whatever) residential IP.
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hokumguru • today at 3:24 AM
I mean, some of us have legitimate business needs to get past cloudflares frankly somewhat bs gatekeeping business model, however
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charcircuit • today at 4:00 AM
Just because others abuse privacy doesn't mean that we should remove privacy from everyone else. They also let you get around geoblocking.
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You make a good point. I've reassessed and agree this is shady, and not a good pattern. And should be disabled/abolished.