Post #3293967
2026-06-07 11:43 UTC
@Hex@kolektiva.social omg so that's the explanation for what's hitting our gitlab, i already blocked over 1.5 million IPs! > Bright Data is a data-collection company that sells access to what it markets as the world’s largest residential proxy network of 400M+ home IP addresses that its customers route web-scraping traffic through.
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@geist@xoxo.zone 2026-06-07 14:58
@mntmn@mastodon.social @Hex@kolektiva.social Yepp. This is also what “free VPN”s do, and there are also companies that pay people to add such code to their apps: https://infatica-sdk.io/
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@corbet@social.kernel.org 2026-06-07 22:13
@mntmn@mastodon.social @Hex@kolektiva.social It's not just those bozos ... some folks at opscloudio.com asked if they could run banners on our site selling the same sort of SDK. We declined...