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by inigyou 3 days ago
And each new IP triggers a new Anubis challenge. Isn't it great?
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So, once the challenges are solved by the residential proxies (with optimized native implementations [1]). Some unsuspecting TV owner is paying with their electricity bill (not the companies doing the scraping) and we all suffer through challenges.

Yes, great outcome! </s>

[1] https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html

Proxy networks just proxy. They don't let their client run compute on the proxy. That isn't even a possibility in socks5 protocol.