That was not the authors main argument against proxies, that was just an additional point. You ignored the primary argument in your judgment. >>Because I could

That was not the authors main argument against proxies, that was just an additional point. You ignored the primary argument in your judgment. >>Because I could not fully trust the other customers with whom I shared the proxy bandwidth. What if I share proxy servers with criminals that do more malicious stuff than the somewhat innocent SERP scraping?