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This has to be provided by a botnet or some other malware, right? They claim 30M residential IP addresses.. How would this be done otherwise? There's no inf
by sbarre 7y ago
This has to be provided by a botnet or some other malware, right?
They claim 30M residential IP addresses.. How would this be done otherwise?
There's no info on the site about "signing up" to be a proxy, just about using them..
- filleokus 7y agoThere are several of these providers, and the only one I noticed saying how they acquired the IP's was Luminati [0]. I didn't look too carefully on all of them though. > When these application vendors integrate the Luminati SDK, their users are offered the alternative to not watch these video ads in return for opting in to the Luminati network. https://luminati.io/faq#lum-peers-join https://luminati.io/faq#lum-peers-join.
- rdrey 7y agoI believe "Hola VPN" did something similar as a browser extension. (You join our free VPN, you act as a node in our commercial residential IP pool (botnet).)