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I think an obvious, if not particularly harmful thing for a free proxy to do would be replacement of ads with ones that pay to the proxy owner, and injection of
by danjayh 12y ago
I think an obvious, if not particularly harmful thing for a free proxy to do would be replacement of ads with ones that pay to the proxy owner, and injection of affiliate links whenever possible. I wonder how common that is?
- joshmn 12y agoSomeone I know very well runs one of the largest proxy networks. "Why wouldn't we? Our users aren't particularly tech-savvy, and we've calculated that 90% of our [user] base doesn't have an adblocker of such installed. ... [we] see 90% [of our income, combined with our VPN services] from injecting ads - sometimes, they are more relevant than what the visiting site serves."
- hackerboos 12y agoA lot of the Pirate Bay proxies did this. It's a good earner.
- flavor8 12y agoBack in 2001 I did some consulting for CyberRebate, who were building exactly this. In return for running their proxy you'd earn reward points that you could cash in on their site. They imploded (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberRebate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberRebate) before the product was launched.