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by kccqzy 287 days ago
Yeah people buy residential IPs on the black market. They are essentially infected home PCs and botnets.
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Bratmon 287 days ago
Not just the black market anymore!

https://www.proxyrack.com/residential-proxies/

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immibis 286 days ago
you can get paid about $0.10/GB in cryptocurrency (at a few GB per month) to run one on your PC. Apparently they also just buy actual connections sometimes. It's not even unethical - it's just two groups of equally bad businesspeople trying to spend money to block the other one.
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typpilol 286 days ago
I've heard a few horror stories... Since the people using residential proxies aren't necessarily always good people
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