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yeah, I'm using https://proxybase.xyz for this. It's like Mullvad but for proxies. No kyc, no email but supports xmr.

throwaway2037 27 days ago

You should put your business (https://proxybase.xyz) in your HN profile. It might help to find more customers.

I’m not here to promote anything just wanted to share a valid use case in the right context.

throwaway2037 26 days ago

And yet you regularly promote you own commercial product using submarine adverts on HN. Hmm... I can think of few other behaviours that HN commenters like less.

KolmogorovComp 27 days ago

Do they say how do they have access to those IPs? Most residential IPs are malware-infected devices.

That’s part of our value proposition. It’s same as when you go to a bank and ask where the yield comes for your account or asking OpenAI where they get data to train their models.

KolmogorovComp 27 days ago

> or asking OpenAI where they get data to train their models

Yes I know it comes from pirating/torrenting/scrapping. Are you saying you acknowledge your IPs come from malware, and that is OK because OpenAI is shady too?

For the context, I have the right not to tell you anything about how we operate our business but we're not shady, we don't take any action without user consent. The other thing is that we don't use "source" keyword in our business context. I think when you use that essentially you inherently accept some part of your business is shady as hell. Instead, we use "providers". That's a lot better.

CallMeMarc 27 days ago

Is this your service? Since you've made seven posts to HN about it and also your username shows up in the commits on their GitHub.

Because I'm quite curious on where the IPs are from. Usually residential IPs is a fancy wording for malware infested devices from regular people.

> Is this your service? Since you've made seven posts to HN about it and also your username shows up in the commits on their GitHub.

Ohh, that makes sense haha.

@m00dy: please disclose when you’re talking about your own projects! It’s okay to plug your stuff sometimes, just be honest about it :-)

I’m not hiding anything :-)

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

No, but you weren’t upfront about it either. I’ve suspected it looked like your own project but checked your comments in the profile and didn’t see any other, so I didn’t dig any deeper.

> I’m not here to promote anything just wanted to share a valid use case in the right context.

There’s a small difference: if one of your users did this it would be totally fair, but when a founder does this I think it’s a polite thing to disclose it. That’s what I’ve been doing when talking about my own project on HN [1], and I think in most cases other legit founders just say that upfront, too. I’m not sure if that breaks any rules, but it feels juuuuust a bit shady not to :-)

throwaway2037 27 days ago

    > Since you've made seven posts to HN about it

Do you have a tool to text search a user's comment history? Your comment is very specific: "seven"!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(Seems to have some weird cache issues though, had to play around with the ?querystring part to get more results)

lucb1e 27 days ago

Yeah I also have to fight the URL parameters on Algolia from time to time, the JS front-end seems to have some syncing bugs

Makes me think I should probably have reported it, even if I found a quick-for-me workaround. Looking at the repo, though, it was discontinued several months ago. https://github.com/algolia/hn-search Wonder how much longer it'll be online for

CallMeMarc 26 days ago

Actually should have clarified, I meant submissions not general posts. I just searched their profile's submissions and found seven mentioning proxybase. I actually didn't check their comments.

throwaway2037 24 days ago

To me, that is even worse that comments. That violates my internal rule about submarine adverts. At least they can be honest about it and add their business to their profile, and mention it when they submit.

I like the API-centric nature of it. $10/GB seems a bit steep though, especially compared to Mullvad’s 5 €/mo.

Search for “mobile proxy” – those are usually cheap-ish monthly subscriptions, with unlimited traffic, and often an API to rotate the IP programmatically if you need it. No KYC, but you usually do have to sign up with an email.

@ notpushkin,

yes, it's a bit more expensive because it's for different use cases. You can't use VPNs or Mullvad for anything mission critical. Just try to log in to your bank in US, it will increase your risk score on their end because VPNs by nature are very easy to detect whereas "residential proxies" much harder.

> You can't use VPNs or Mullvad for anything mission critical. Just try to log in to your bank in US, it will increase your risk score on their end because VPNs by nature is very easy to detect whereas "residential proxies" much harder.

Naturally! I’m just saying there’s residential proxy providers that are a LOT cheaper than that.

(IIRC, you can usually reply to fresh comments if you click on the “n minutes ago” – the reply link should be visible there even if it isn’t shown in the main comments tree)

I think when it comes to privacy or XMR, money is not really that important. Just give me a few names that support XMR payments + no KYC and providing mostly non-flagged residential IPs that you can use them for mission critical stuff.

That’s a good question! I haven’t been in this scene for a long long time now, so can’t say for sure.

I’ve been implementing an Instagram liker service back in... 2018 was it? So a stable pool of non-flagged residential proxies was important here, and it was my client who introduced me to the concept of “mobile proxies”. Basically, they use regular 3G/4G/5G modems with regular SIM cards, and expose that as a SOCKS proxy. You get a normal-looking IP from a pool of mobile operator’s IPs. Since mobile devices reconnect all the time (and are behind a CGNAT mostly nowadays), you can’t really flag an IP like that – and if it is flagged, you can get a fresh one in a moment.

I’m not using this mostly because I’m too lazy to research. Here’s a random one I found (so not an endorsement!) which is $1/GB, seems to only require email to sign up, and takes crypto (including XMR): https://floppydata.com/