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> How does Bright Data acquire its residential IPs? > Bright Data has built a unique consumer IP model by which all involved parties are fairly compensated for
by orlp 5y ago
> How does Bright Data acquire its residential IPs?
> Bright Data has built a unique consumer IP model by which all involved parties are fairly compensated for their voluntary participation. App owners install a unique Software Development Kit (SDK) to their applications and receive monthly remuneration based on the number of users who opt-in. App users can voluntarily opt-in and are compensated through an ad-free user experience or enjoy an upgraded version of the app they are using for free. These consumers or ‘peers’ serve as the basis of our network and can opt-out at any time. This model has brought into existence an unrivaled, first of its kind, ethically sound, and compliant network of real consumers.
I don't know how they can say with a straight face that this is 'ethically sound'. They have, essentially, created a botnet, but apparently because it's "AdTech" and the user "opts-in" (read: they click on random buttons until they hit one that makes the banner/ad go away) it's suddenly not malware.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoNordVPN (Tesonet) has another business doing the same thing. They sell the IP addresses/bandwidth of their NordVPN customers to anyone who needs bulk mobile or residential IP addresses. That's right, installing their VPN software adds your IP address to a pool that NordVPN then resells. Xfinity/Comcast sort of pioneered this with their wifi routers that automatically expose an isolated wifi network called 'xfinity' (IIRC) whether you agree or not.
- duskwuff 5y agoThe Comcast access points do, at least, have the saving grace that they're on a separate network segment from the customer's hardware, and don't share an IP address or bandwidth/traffic limit with the customer. Tesonet and other similar services (e.g. Luminati) don't have that. As far as anyone -- including web services, the ISP, or law enforcement -- are concerned, their traffic is the subscriber's traffic.
- rascul 5y ago> They sell the IP addresses/bandwidth of their NordVPN customers to anyone who needs bulk mobile or residential IP addresses I would be interested in a reference for this if you have one.