Re: Cats vs Mice [CAPTCHAs on Cloudflare-proxied sites]

[niels=nanog--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

* 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-proxylib-and-lumiapps-transform-mobile-devices-into-proxy-nodes/


        -- Niels.
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