Comment by baobabKoodaa
1 day ago
So it's ethical to bypass bot restrictions and rate limits by pretending to be a bunch of residential connections?
1 day ago
So it's ethical to bypass bot restrictions and rate limits by pretending to be a bunch of residential connections?
Not much different than blocking access to people without JS enabled, blocking people stuck behind NAT, blocking whole countries or require them to solve Cloudflare captchas.
What does any of this have to do with residential proxies? If you can't access a website because you have disabled JS, you won't be able to access that website with a residential proxy either.
I was referring to the fact that many websites block / force users to use the resource in a certain way, why shouldn't they in return have the right to bypass these restrictions.
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If it’s to enable users to fetch their own data, it’s absolutely ethical. These websites can offer API’s so people can access their own data “above the board” but instead make it incredibly difficult.
"Users fetching their own data" is probably less than a hundredth of a percent of traffic passing through residential proxies, I'd even bet some money on that.
Yeah, if that's your use case, why not just use a regular datacenter proxy?