* nanog@immibis.com [Wed 09 Jul 2025, 16:39 CEST]:
This is a service you can buy, and it even has different service classes.
If you want to launder your traffic through residential addresses it's expensive, on the order of dollars per GB; they typically have to use real connections at real eyeball ISPs. The more reputable ones pay people money to run a proxy tool on their computer, and perhaps also get their own connections under aliases. The less reputable ones rent time on botnets.
There's another option here: the proxy-for-rent service preys on unwitting users who installed a free app on their (mostly Android) smartphones, which shipped with an SDK that set up the phone as a proxy. The clickthrough EULA may or may not mention it. https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/blog/satori-threat-intelligence-alert-pr... -- Niels. --