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vincnetas ◴[] No.45118822[source]
How realistic is possibility that some VPN providers use clients (computers of person who installed VPN) to just be able to crawl (or rent crawl infra) sites and make it look like regular residential traffic? (This is speculation i heard somewhere)

Like reverse VPN :) on one side makes client look like he's accessing internet from VPN exit location, and on the other end allowing for money someone to pretend that he's a residential client.

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1. kube-system ◴[] No.45119010[source]
There are a number of "free" VPN providers that have been documented to do this, if you search you should find some articles about it.