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		tremon 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companie... Are these "residential proxies" assumed to be infected devices part of a botnet or malicious apps on users' phones?

Galanwe 7 months ago | [–]

A lot of these residential proxy as a service companies just use regular ISPs to run their automated headless browsers. It doesn't need to be illegal.

prmoustache 7 months ago | [–]

I guess iot devices and mobile apps.

Unethical, definitely. Illegal, no.

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