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by Ian_Kerins 1416 days ago
The ethics of these free VPNs and hidden proxy SDKs are very questionable. But they are crazy profitable for the proxy providers running them so unlikely to go away.

Did a teardown on their crazy economics recently https://scrapeops.io/web-scraping-playbook/residential-mobil...

The profit margins are insane, easily over 99% profit on millions in revenue.