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What portion of Fox's acquisition thesis for Roku was activating residential proxies (distributed AI crawling!) across all the units?

• kristianp 4mo ago
  Is bypassing scraping blocks the main purpose of these residential proxy networks?
  • duskwuff 4mo ago
    Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".
    • kristianp 4mo ago
      From the article it can be used by botnets as well, linking to https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-st...
      • duskwuff 4mo ago
        Oh, I'm sure there's all sorts of illicit use as well. But scraping is what the network is being actively marketed for, and it probably amounts to most of their traffic by volume.