Yep for anyone unaware of how awful things truly are, look up what a "residential proxy" is. Back in my day we called that a botnet.

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nananana9 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh, they're still botnets. We just look the other way because they're useful.

And they're pretty tame as far as computer fraud goes - if my device gets compromised I'd much rather deal with it being used for fake YouTube views than ransomware or a banking trojan.

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deadbabe 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can make a little bit of cash on the side letting companies use your bandwidth a bit for proxying. You won’t even notice. $50/month. Times are tough!

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jamwil 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course the risk here being whatever nefarious or illegal shit is flowing through your pipes, which you consented to and even received consideration for.

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		No worries it’s encrypted traffic