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Spider (.) com claims to have access to 70 million residential IPs How is this legal? And who even uses it?
by schleck8 5y ago
Spider (.) com claims to have access to 70 million residential IPs
How is this legal? And who even uses it?
- mdaniel 5y agoOne may often hear the expression "if you're not paying, then you're the product" for websites, but in the case of "free VPN" (or maybe even very low cost ones), it's my understanding that's how they're free to the user: because they're paid by folks who want residential IP egress I'd guess any such VPN can even put in their ToS "you grant $company the ability to send and receive traffic from your device" which wouldn't raise eyebrows in the same way such a clause in an image viewing binary would
- easrng 5y agoI don't know how many VPNs do this but Hola and BrightVPN do, they both make you a Bright Data exit node.
- easrng 5y agoSee also https://brightdata.com/ https://brightdata.com/ (formerly Luminati Networks) which does the same hting but with Chrome Extensions.
- schleck8 5y agoI always tell people to watch out what extensions they install, the webstore is a minefield
- rozenmd 5y agoScrapers - it's hard to detect bot traffic mixed in with a regular residential IP address
- schleck8 5y agoThey sure have a fancy website for such a scummy operation