[herpessimplex10]

> but the real issue appears to have been the apps’ use of resource-monetization services that grant cybercriminals access to devices and residential IPs for malicious activity.

So the apps are malware that function as residential proxies.

Way to bury the lede.

[parsimo2010]

RTFA. That was for the previous round of blocks, and those apps were restored after the offending behavior was removed.

The current round of blocks is targeting apps that support piracy even if they don’t have any other malicious behavior.

[leoh]

It's pretty incredible how many apps have this kind of functionality. There are some sketch af sites that sell access to these proxies. I took a look to do some web scraping a while ago. In the end, I just ended up using TOR with a Rust API and that worked a lot better and made me feel a lot less dirty, in addition to being free.