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NordVPN (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
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
NordVPN (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.