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Too bad AWS didn’t get that memo, 200GB would cost $18 there, and somehow the company in the original post is paying $500 for that bandwidth with whoever their
by Johnny555 2y ago
Too bad AWS didn’t get that memo, 200GB would cost $18 there, and somehow the company in the original post is paying $500 for that bandwidth with whoever their proxy host is.
- suchintan 2y agoHaha unfortunately we use residential proxies under the hood to simulate real users (as you'd expect from AI agents), where bandwidth is significantly more expensive!
- donmcronald 2y agoHow does a residential proxy work? Do people rent out their internet connections to commercial services?
- mike_d 2y agoComputers getting infected with malware, pre-compromised cheap internet devices from Amazon/Wish.com, and game developers monetizing "free" games by running proxies in the background. There are usually a few layers of resellers so technically the proxy provider can throw their hands up in the air and say they are unaware of any malicious activity.
- stevenicr 2y agosomeone in your household adds a 'free vpn app' to their device and that app sells off portions of your bandwidth to others. Someone has a cheap android tv box or similar unpatched thing with your wifi password (one botnet alone has over 1.3 million android boxes working for it as of this week - https://www.securityweek.com/1-3-million-android-tv-boxes-infected-by-vo1d-malware/ https://www.securityweek.com/1-3-million-android-tv-boxes-in... ) Someone start cobbling lists of these so I can block them in a different way.
- audrey1 2y agoThe screenshot is from webshare