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Yes - but legal and explicitly allowed by the user. BrightData is the biggest of them, they run the free VPN Hola, and have an SDK app owners can install in th
by celestialcheese 3y ago
Yes - but legal and explicitly allowed by the user.
BrightData is the biggest of them, they run the free VPN Hola, and have an SDK app owners can install in their apps that allow selling bandwidth from installs. For someone who is price sensitive, trading some free residential bandwidth for whatever service is pretty compelling.
I'm sure there are scummy ones, but Bright seems to require pretty explicit consent. Not affiliated, just looked into it for some apps I have, but the payouts weren't good and I didn't think it'd be a good fit for our users.
- stingraycharles 3y agoThis is exactly the one I was using. Basically you’re piggy-backing on mobile phones and other devices using their free VPN software, and it’s incredibly hard to block for large websites. Combine this with some other clever tricks, and you’re basically able to do huge scrapes for not-that-much money with incredible convenience.
- candiddevmike 3y agoThere are also a lot of rural/metro ISPs that offer this as a service (residential IPs) if you find the right person