why is running a proxy a bad thing? someone profiting off it could be bad maybe, but even that is good if it pays for my subscription.

but compare running tor nodes, and especially exit nodes. that surely would be a good thing, so at least if you think tor is good then running a proxy should be the same and it should be normalized.

doing it in secret without the user knowing is what's bad

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corbet an hour ago | parent | next [-]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080822/ Do you really want to be a part of the scraper problem?

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40four 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because your home IP address is going to be associated with criminal activity. So if that’s acceptable “payment” then I guess there’s no issue

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glitchc 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed without my permission is implied. Without it, you have no idea what traffic is being routed and could be on the hook for something nasty like CSAM.

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		Those are different issues. Permission doesn't mean you know what the content is, and lack of permission doesn't mean they're going to load anything weird or bad. Lack of permission implies worse ethics overall, but an operation focused on clicking ads will be loading relatively normal sites.
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