Comment by sim7c00

there are many ways to pretend to be an IP. that being said, things like 911S5 can show people can actually control that many machines, even though i suspect others comments about tracking pixels and such methods are likely more plausible.

you could also do like a resources lookup maybe in some games if you host the server (resources then being looked up on the client). games are full of weird design choices for performance, some can be abused. .another avenue is ads linking to different resources via scripts, maybe some smaller players still allows it.

also there are (gray are) businesses who offer residential proxies for things like scraping (sales lead generation companies oftenuse such services for example). so you could likely pay your way to millions of ips, relatively cheap if ud do only 1 request over each