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Nowadays it's called "residential IP proxy". A lot of shady shit under that term. Used by all the harmful services - scammers, AI crawlers... :)

• giancarlostoro 10mo ago
  Now that you mention it, I never used those, but I always did wonder how they do those.
  • jabroni_salad 10mo ago
    Someone googles "free VPN" so they can watch region locked videos and now their connection is a part of that network too. They may or may not realize that this is the arrangement.
    • szszrk 10mo ago
      Or his kid uses a free game with a lot of grinding, not knowing that the child's phone is now technically part of a botnet.
      • discordance 10mo ago
        I would like to know more about this. Got a source?
        • zinekeller 10mo ago
          It's hard to find a source that isn't paywalled, but fortunately it's covered in a paper: https://www.xiaojingliao.com/uploads/9/7/0/2/97024238/ndss21-mobile-proxy.pdf https://www.xiaojingliao.com/uploads/9/7/0/2/97024238/ndss21...