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by 3np 1772 days ago
Not only that, some VPN providers run through actual residential IPs acquired through browser extensions, apps, and smart devices.
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TedDoesntTalk 1772 days ago
Some official NordVPN clients turn your device into a proxy server which the other side of the NordVPN business (OxyLabs) sells to other customers.
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alacritas0 1771 days ago
Do you have a source to support that claim?
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3np 1771 days ago
I don't have time to dig up anything authoritative right now, but I assumed this was common knowledge and uncontroversial. It is precisely this kind of practices (reusing/selling/buying user and customer IPs - there are companies that specialize as brokers) that allows them their low prices while generally not getting blocked by services like Netflix, and I suspect it's also what's behind the move from NF.
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dmurray 1771 days ago
> there are companies that specialize in brokers...

You're describing a botnet here. There are certainly organizations that will sell you access to their botnet, but I wouldn't describe them as uncontroversial, and I'd like to learn about ones that are structured as companies or that have as authoritative a reach as NordVPN.

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3np 1771 days ago
Luminati, for one. The mentioned OxyLabs, for another.

I'm not saying this by itself is anything illegal - users generally unwittingly agree to it through wall-of-text ToS.

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