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I am on mobile network and it fails to consider this as a factor that other people who might receive this IP could be having a proxy.

Aurornis 11d ago
If the IP address you're using has been detected as a residential proxy, it doesn't matter. It's going to be flagged on lists for a long time. Being able to check is helpful.
- TacticalCoder 11d ago
  > If the IP address you're using has been detected as a residential proxy, it doesn't matter. It's going to be flagged on lists for a long time. Flagged and then... What exactly? If people who have a smart TV have their smart TV participate in a residential proxy, then it's billions of IP getting "flagged". What's the use of flagging those? When every IP is flagged, none is.
  - ranger_danger 11d ago
    I assume that eventually the flag will just become meaningless and there will be other methods of verification in use by then... because cutting off a huge chunk of your customers just isn't good business. But for now I'm already cut off from half the internet due to endless crimeflare captcha loops... I just don't visit those sites anymore because I literally can't.
  - TZubiri 11d ago
    >If people who have a smart TV have their smart TV participate in a residential proxy, then it's billions of IP getting "flagged". There's a non-trivial quantity error here that makes the argument of a majority qualitatively incorrect. It's not billions of IPs that are being used in residential proxies, it's not all smart TVs. There needs to be a vulnerability and hacked devices OR there needs to be a very low quality and shady vendor that is offering products at too cheap prices and needs to make ends meet in order to compete at that price. Probably chinese. This would be in the range of 1 to 100 million smart TVs. sorry for the wide range, but definitely not 1Billion or every TV. So to the extent that the ratio of infected to non infected IPs is low, then providers can block the infected ones to a great effect.
    - Symbiote 11d ago
      Bright Data claim to have 400 million IPs. https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies
  - mahboi 11d ago
    Mine isn't flagged. Not gonna set up a smart TV.
specproc 11d ago
Yeah, clicked from my mobile network without thinking and nearly jumped out my skin.
- microcode 11d ago
  I added a warning that should help with this now.
TZubiri 11d ago
But whether your IP address is being used as a residential proxy is already important information. It answers the question (is this IP address low quality?) Although I'll grant that it would be interesting to know if your devices are running the proxy, but you'll need an exeuctable tool for that, not a per-ip network tool.

Aurornis 11d ago

If the IP address you're using has been detected as a residential proxy, it doesn't matter. It's going to be flagged on lists for a long time. Being able to check is helpful.

TacticalCoder 11d ago
> If the IP address you're using has been detected as a residential proxy, it doesn't matter. It's going to be flagged on lists for a long time. Flagged and then... What exactly? If people who have a smart TV have their smart TV participate in a residential proxy, then it's billions of IP getting "flagged". What's the use of flagging those? When every IP is flagged, none is.
- ranger_danger 11d ago
  I assume that eventually the flag will just become meaningless and there will be other methods of verification in use by then... because cutting off a huge chunk of your customers just isn't good business. But for now I'm already cut off from half the internet due to endless crimeflare captcha loops... I just don't visit those sites anymore because I literally can't.
- TZubiri 11d ago
  >If people who have a smart TV have their smart TV participate in a residential proxy, then it's billions of IP getting "flagged". There's a non-trivial quantity error here that makes the argument of a majority qualitatively incorrect. It's not billions of IPs that are being used in residential proxies, it's not all smart TVs. There needs to be a vulnerability and hacked devices OR there needs to be a very low quality and shady vendor that is offering products at too cheap prices and needs to make ends meet in order to compete at that price. Probably chinese. This would be in the range of 1 to 100 million smart TVs. sorry for the wide range, but definitely not 1Billion or every TV. So to the extent that the ratio of infected to non infected IPs is low, then providers can block the infected ones to a great effect.
  - Symbiote 11d ago
    Bright Data claim to have 400 million IPs. https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies
- mahboi 11d ago
  Mine isn't flagged. Not gonna set up a smart TV.

specproc 11d ago

Yeah, clicked from my mobile network without thinking and nearly jumped out my skin.

microcode 11d ago
I added a warning that should help with this now.

TZubiri 11d ago

But whether your IP address is being used as a residential proxy is already important information. It answers the question (is this IP address low quality?) Although I'll grant that it would be interesting to know if your devices are running the proxy, but you'll need an exeuctable tool for that, not a per-ip network tool.