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kccqzy 3 days ago

Yeah people buy residential IPs on the black market. They are essentially infected home PCs and botnets.

Bratmon 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not just the black market anymore!

https://www.proxyrack.com/residential-proxies/

immibis 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

you can get paid about $0.10/GB in cryptocurrency (at a few GB per month) to run one on your PC. Apparently they also just buy actual connections sometimes. It's not even unethical - it's just two groups of equally bad businesspeople trying to spend money to block the other one.

typpilol 2 days ago | parent [-]

I've heard a few horror stories... Since the people using residential proxies aren't necessarily always good people