Post #4297478

2026-07-31 23:27 UTC

"residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of their life

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@goaty@meow.social 2026-08-01 01:22

@mattly@hachyderm.io probably a good sign that i searched "residential proxy network" and the first result was an FBI article on how to keep yourself safe from being used as part of one, right? :neocat_laugh_nervous:

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@sammypanda@aus.social 2026-08-01 01:43

@mattly@hachyderm.io why/how are they allowed?

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@mattly@hachyderm.io 2026-08-01 16:28

Once again I lament the lack of reply controls here. If you are coming to this post to reply, know that I am not going to read it

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@wraptile@fosstodon.org 2026-08-01 03:04

@mattly@hachyderm.io this is a bad take. There are plenty of ethical proxies and proxies need to be protected to safeguard our online freedoms. IP addresses are already used incorrectly as identification which ipv4 is fundamentally incapable of due to limited address pool making people share same 'indentity" and ipv6 adoption is artificially limited because it's harder to use for tracking so residential proxies are important in this ecosystem to get around IP identity based censorship.

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@womble@infosec.exchange 2026-08-01 03:12

@mattly@hachyderm.io the vast majority of modern software is just straight up malware with a ToS and marketing budget.

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