Some people making money off it, it's a whole value chain:
- Residential proxy providers
- Hosting providers with IP-rotation as a service.
- Hosting providers who chase AI training customers, DigitalOcean is a big one
- Clouds like AWS with headless browsing as a service
- Platforms like Replit whose value proposition starts to fall apart if clients can't make requests from their platform.
- Companies like meta, whose existing bots are now obviously completely unchained from their advertised responsibilities