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Most users of residential proxies just get a SOCKS5 address and routing, they don't actually get computational resources of the infected systems beyond that. Th
by anonym29 3mo ago
Most users of residential proxies just get a SOCKS5 address and routing, they don't actually get computational resources of the infected systems beyond that. The user of the proxies, the operator of what the article describes as a control node, would be the device responsible for the PoW.
Do you have any evidence that AI providers aren't using residential proxies?
- jimmydorry 2mo agoYes, the status quo right now is merely bandwidth... but if there was money to be made in providing a small amount of compute for the sake of solving the next gen captcha's, you can bet offerings will expand to meet it. It's impossible to prove a negative. They could all be running secondary scrapers using malware proxies... but what we do have is plenty of evidence of them using fixed IP pools with appropriate user agents. I don't see any Chinese user agents... so two guesses who may be driving the bulk of these AI scraper requests via residential proxies.