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submitted 1 day ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They have a botnet on residential devices?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

the term of art is "residential proxy" and there's a ton of them

for example: it's the flipside of Bright's free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user's connection

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

And companies like honey that pay you (a pittance) to proxy people's requests to porn sites.