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by kaoD 226 days ago
There's crap like https://hola.org/

https://hola.org/legal/sdk

https://hola.org/legal/sla

> How is it free? > > In return for free usage of Hola Free VPN Proxy, Hola Fake GPS location and Hola Video Accelerator, you may be a peer on the Bright Data network. By doing so you agree to have read and accepted the terms of service of the Bright Data SDK SLA (https://bright-sdk.com/eula). You may opt out by becoming a Premium user.

This "VPN" is what powers these residential proxies: https://brightdata.com/

I'm sure there are many other companies like this.
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piggg 226 days ago
There's also a ton of companies selling "make money off your unused internet" apps which are all over tiktok and basically turn yourself into a residential proxy/sketch VPN egress node.

On top of that - lots of free tv/movie streaming stuff that also makes yourself a proxy/egress node. Sometimes you find it on tv/movie streaming devices sold online where it's already loaded on when it arrives.

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