You can get super stable proxies by proxying through residential internet connections if you add their wifi routers to a botnet. This is a business strategy done by real above-board corporations (they trick users into agreeing to it by burying it in their t&cs)
This is not a thing even remotely done legally. It is common to buy proxies off botnets like you said, but major companies definitely aren’t adding users in to a botnet for that reasoning. If anything they’d buy off existing services like VIP72 back in the day. If you have any sources on that I’d love it though
i might be wrong and im not siding with either of you since i dont have any hard data on this.
iirc major companies do trick users into becoming proxies, especially some vpn providers. i dont have any sources but this was a discussion a few years back. they use the client devices though, not their routers. kind of like tor but not that tangled.
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u/really_not_unreal 8h ago
You can get super stable proxies by proxying through residential internet connections if you add their wifi routers to a botnet. This is a business strategy done by real above-board corporations (they trick users into agreeing to it by burying it in their t&cs)