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by Thiez 222 days ago
Fact is that they do exist. Whether that meshes with your personal beliefs about economics seems beside the point.
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They exist because they are either proxying networks that resell residential IPs (aka your internet connection) ...or because they are harvesting credentials.

The former will now make less sense as a business model, since UK isn't a good location to proxy traffic through anymore.