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These residential proxies are also used by scrapers. From scraping stores to scalp merchandise, to scrapers of data for AI training.

• mitxela 5d ago
  Sounds awesome, what's the catch?
  • walrus01 5d ago
    You also get to run credit card fraud purchases through your home internet connection, such fun times we live in.
    • mitxela 5d ago
      So what's the catch? Has anyone ever been arrested for proxying a fraudulent credit card transaction?
      • dwedge 5d ago
        Probably not. But do you really want the hassle of explaining the proxy to the police when they get a report of CSAM content uploaded from your IP?
        • mitxela 5d ago
          Has that ever happened?
          • dwedge 5d ago
            It's a possibility. I don't know about CSAM but I know someone who was arrested for death threats sent to a politician after running a tor exit node. Eventually not charged, but he lost all his computing equipment for a couple of months
            • walrus01 5d ago
              From 2009: https://archive.torproject.org/websites/lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2009-September/019511.html https://archive.torproject.org/websites/lists.torproject.org...
              • mitxela 4d ago
                Has anything changed since 2009?
            • alt227 4d ago
              > Eventually not charged Theres your answer.
              • dwedge 4d ago
                Considering the question was "has that every happened?" regarding the police getting a report and you having to explain the proxy to them, I guess you mean the answer is yes and your attitude is misplaced?
  • Dylan16807 5d ago
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