[antonymoose]

> residential proxy node and sells your IP address to third parties for fraud, scraping, and ad abuse.

I know the potential for bad actors here, but there is legitimate use of these services.

I used to work in the “brand protection” space. Our entire business model was SOC-aaS, scraping, verifying, and ending lookalike sites among other threats. If you’ve banked at Wells Fargo or had an iCloud account, our job was to try and make that a little bit safer.

Fact is the enemy gets a vote and quite many so-called threat actors are buying very capable kits that know what the fingerprint of a clean room virtual instance or VPN looks like.

[hcs]

Maybe this is too obvious to say but it doesn't matter what they're selling the access for, it's the unwanted installation of the proxy that's malware. If you're buying access from a service that gets its residential network access that way you're contributing to the problem.