[newsclues]

The amateurs at home are going to give the big companies what they want: an excuse for government regulation.

[throwaway290]

If it doesn't say it's a bot and it doesn't come from a corporate IP it doesn't mean it's NOT a bot and not run by some "AI" company.

[bodantogat]

I have no way to verify this, I suspect these are either stealth AI companies or data collectors, who hope to sell training data to them

[datadrivenangel]

I've heard that some mobile SDKs / Apps earn extra revenue by providing an IP address for VPN connections / scraping.

[odo1242]

Chrome extensions too

[int_19h]

Don't worry, the governments are perfectly capable of coming up with excuses all on their own.