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This! Mobile IPs are far more lucrative. Many services will drop captchas and other anti-bot stuff for consumer mobile IPs. I recall Plaid at some point would r
by varenc 5y ago
This! Mobile IPs are far more lucrative. Many services will drop captchas and other anti-bot stuff for consumer mobile IPs. I recall Plaid at some point would run their bank scraping through mobile IPs.
This sketchy company lets mobile app developers monetize user base by letting other people pay $$ to route requests through random people’s mobile IPs: https://brightdata.com/ https://brightdata.com/
- cute_boi 5y agoThis is really bad. Imagine if someone plants these proxy inside app how user are even going to know? I think every OS should come with firewall so if app tries to make connection it should prompt with Accept | Accept Forever | Deny | Deny Forever. I think these companies used to go for extension developer now it seems they have found new idea to implant malware on apps which is not easy to detect.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThis is EXACTLY how mobile proxy companies like Luminati and OxyLabs acquire their ip address pool. They pay devs to embed a lib inside their app.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoThey hack IP cams and routers too…
- dzhiurgis 5y agoBrightdata is formerly known as as Luminati who is owned by same company as Hola VPN. Similarly NordVPN owns Oxylabs (who mostly hack routers and cameras and sell those as residential IP’s).
- varenc 5y agoBut they have a white paper on how ethical their proxies are! https://oxylabs.io/Oxylabs_Residential_Proxy_Acquisition_Handbook.pdf https://oxylabs.io/Oxylabs_Residential_Proxy_Acquisition_Han...
- herbst 5y agoI never checked their business practice. But I use Luminati rotating residential proxies for a lot of my scraping work. Mostly to avoid hitting 'ddos protections' or other security bullshit that doesn't really make sense on 1 daily request or so.