I shared this thought with a friend of mine recently, primarily in regards to the use of residential proxies:

They don't care about any effect on the individual people.

They view their thing in a vacuum with some kind of religious fervor. It's a form of psychosis, and it seems increasingly prevalent in tech company leadership and so spreads into those who aspire to be tech company leadership types.

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mitxela 19 hours ago | parent [-]

also, residential proxies don't really affect anyone except Cloudflare, who we should rightfully hate anyway. Spying does.

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BLKNSLVR 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Fairly strong disagree. Plenty of damage could be caused to the individual, whether they made the decision to run a residential proxy or not.

Essentially little difference from running a tor exit node.

My position is that I assume that most people running a residential proxy are not aware that they're running a residential proxy. I understand why people use them and how they're useful, but I just don't think there's informed consent. I think they essentially grew out of botnets, or botnets just rebranded into 'residential proxies'.

Having said that, I'm not trying to convince you to change your position. Feel free to continue to disagree with me.

	▲	anon7000 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t have a deep understanding of residential proxies. But if you had an internet plan with a data cap, it would surely count against both download and upload, yeah? That alone is a huge violation. These companies need to be fined into the dirt. We need a corporate death penalty, to be honest.