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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Aug-2026 04:03:36 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
- Lars Wirzenius
@liw It's the same. But the methods have changed. What happens now is that these "residential proxy" providers go to app/device developers and make them a simple offer: add our library and we will pay you for every active user. That library just steals network bandwidth from unsuspecting users that the "residential proxy" provider sells to whoever wants to use that bandwidth. So it's BaaS, Botnet as a Service.
See https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
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  Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
  
  I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!

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