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vincnetas ◴[03 Sep 25 18:12 UTC] 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. immibis ◴[03 Sep 25 19:00 UTC] No.45119288[source]▶

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There are also apps that purport to pay you up to a dollar a gigabyte (no joke) for proxying traffic.

And it's not even illegal, not even shady. I see nothing wrong with getting paid to help big companies compete with/destroy each other.

As a bonus you help rid the world of Cloudflare. Cloudflare serves more captchas to ISPs with more proxies. When every ISP is captcha'd, every user will hate Cloudflare.

It's not a get rich quick scheme - there's low demand for proxying at that kind of price.

I'm not going to shill specific companies, so just Google 'get paid to share mobile data' or something.

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2. anon191928 ◴[03 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45119448[source]▶

>>45119288 (TP) #

any examples about this? really interesting

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