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Installing a proxy, and then selling a “residential” proxy service can be quite lucrative. Residential IPs are generally treated with less suspicion in the risk
by bikingbismuth 5y ago
Installing a proxy, and then selling a “residential” proxy service can be quite lucrative. Residential IPs are generally treated with less suspicion in the risk systems of payment processors and merchants. Similar to the monetization models of “free”
VPN providers on mobile phones.
- vmception 5y agoStreaming services also don't block them compared to known vpns and IP blocks at data centers
- IntelMiner 5y agoThat's not strictly true Wave Broadband up on the US west coast for many years has been the victim of offering gigabit fiber optic internet services. Many of its clients of that service come from a country with a particularly "great firewall" one might say Netflix's systems will often see these rafts of connections with weird non-matching timezones to the IP address, Chinese default language and other errant data and...simply declare the entire ISP a VPN/Proxy provider! For a company with 500K+ customers in 3 states, this kind of disruption is absolutely brutal on their support lines, yet seems to happen almost every other month