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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

at least OpenAI and probably others do currently use commercial residential proxying services, though reputedly only if you make it obvious you’re blocking their scrapers, presumably as an attempt on their end to limit operating costs

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Oh never heard of that. I have blocked their scrapers via agents but I haven't felt residential proxy pain.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

@db0 @self Residential Proxy Pain are playing at the Dublin Castle in Camden this Friday, £4 advance, £5 on the door

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Daym, I should set me up some iocane as well I think

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

PS: Looks like that sync issue between our instances is resolved now?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

yep, it seems so! I haven’t put the permanent fix for the nodeinfo bug into place yet but it’ll be live as soon as I’m able to give it an appropriate level of testing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Infinite-garbage-maze does seem more appealing than "proof-of-work" (the crypto parentage is yuckish enough ^^) as a countermeasure, though I would understand if some would not feel confortable with direct sabotage—say for example a UN organization.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

They have a botnet on residential devices?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

the term of art is "residential proxy" and there's a ton of them

for example: it's the flipside of Bright's free VPN service - through Bright Data they sell people access proxied via some user's connection

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And companies like honey that pay you (a pittance) to proxy people's requests to porn sites.

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