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by KolmogorovComp 682 days ago
> There's also the Tor exit node route of using your users as a sort of mesh network to get residential IPs, but legitimate VPN providers are not going to do that because of the risk it exposes their users to legal liability.

Could there be a middle ground? Unless using encrypted DNS, the VPN has access to the website name, and could use a list of legitimate services that ban VPNs (like Netflix) and only then use their users as a mesh.