Post #4324295
2026-08-01 03:04 UTC
@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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@NosirrahSec@infosec.exchange 2026-08-01 03:15
@wraptile@fosstodon.org @mattly@hachyderm.io I don't think you're understanding the post in its entirety. They're not harping on proxies. They're harping on a botnet by any other name, in consumer devices, on purpose, by the manufacturers and their scumbag partners.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-08-01 04:29
@wraptile@fosstodon.org Yeah, like Tor exit nodes, but I don't think that's what @mattly@hachyderm.io had in mind.