* [email protected] [Wed 09 Jul 2025, 16:39 CEST]:
This is a service you can buy, and it even has different service
classes.
If you want to launder your traffic through residential addresses
it's expensive, on the order of dollars per GB; they typically have
to use real connections at real eyeball ISPs.
The more reputable ones pay people money to run a proxy tool on
their computer, and perhaps also get their own connections under
aliases. The less reputable ones rent time on botnets.
There's another option here: the proxy-for-rent service preys on
unwitting users who installed a free app on their (mostly Android)
smartphones, which shipped with an SDK that set up the phone as a
proxy. The clickthrough EULA may or may not mention it.
https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/blog/satori-threat-intelligence-alert-proxylib-and-lumiapps-transform-mobile-devices-into-proxy-nodes/
-- Niels.
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