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Grey market residential proxy service providers are one of the most common methods of implementing bot spam, social media manipulation and plenty of straight-ou
by walrus01 3mo ago
Grey market residential proxy service providers are one of the most common methods of implementing bot spam, social media manipulation and plenty of straight-out fraud.
There's all kinds of things that malicious actors want to do where they value coming from an ordinary (comcast, charter, centurylink, shaw cable, whatever) residential IP.
- hokumguru 3mo agoI mean, some of us have legitimate business needs to get past cloudflares frankly somewhat bs gatekeeping business model, however
- walrus01 3mo agoSure, I do as well, I have my own VPN into my home office that lets me run traffic outbound through its default gateway while I'm somewhere else. But letting random third parties I don't know run traffic through my house is another thing entirely.
- inigyou 3mo agoIf it meant you got to run your traffic through other people's houses, would that be a good trade?
- nikanj 3mo agoTo be clear, bot spam and social media manipulation are legitimate business needs for the business selling said services.
- JoshTriplett 3mo agoYou can't have legitimate business needs if you're not a legitimate business in the first place. Ban them all.
- inigyou 3mo agoWho decides which businesses are legitimate?
- mmakeev 3mo agoDo you really need residential ip for this? for my news scraping i have choose static datacenter proxy first, rotating only as fallback, direct as last. flaresolverr covered cloudflare js challenge, but it wedge on memory time to time, so i add healthcheck for it. on my own site aws waf meet datacenter ua with captcha, so i understand other side too. residential never was necessary for me, but maybe my targets are just easier, what do you scrape?
- charcircuit 3mo agoJust because others abuse privacy doesn't mean that we should remove privacy from everyone else. They also let you get around geoblocking.
- nvme0n1p1 3mo agoYou're free to let strangers download illegal images from a proxy running on your IP, but I sure as hell won't.
- charcircuit 3mo agoIf you don't want to share your internet with others, that is your choice, but please don't make seem like you are only sharing the internet with criminals. That is a harmful belief to spread.
- cognitiveinline 3mo agoYou make a good point. I've reassessed and agree this is shady, and not a good pattern. And should be disabled/abolished.