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by yegor 1161 days ago
We do use those for geo-unblocking, but they're not used for anti-CAPTCHA mitigations. We own and operate special purposes ASes and IP prefixes for that.

All of this can also be (verifiably) disabled by the end user in the web control panel.
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LoganDark 1161 days ago
> We do use those for geo-unblocking

What steps, if any, are you taking to make sure you are sourcing your residential proxies ethically? Honest question.

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iudqnolq 1161 days ago
> We own and operate special purposes ASes and IP prefixes for that.

The part that seems shady to me is how you do this without being caught by the up database providers are marked as a non-residential ip.

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andreareina 1161 days ago
My read of GP's reply is: they use residential proxies to get around geo-blocking, and separately have special purpose ASs to avoid captchas. They're separate solutions serving separate needs; connecting to Netflix gets you the residential IP, regular browsing would get you the other one.
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