Comment by xnx
2 months ago
What portion of Fox's acquisition thesis for Roku was activating residential proxies (distributed AI crawling!) across all the units?
2 months ago
What portion of Fox's acquisition thesis for Roku was activating residential proxies (distributed AI crawling!) across all the units?
Is bypassing scraping blocks the main purpose of these residential proxy networks?
Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".
From the article it can be used by botnets as well, linking to https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-st...
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