Comment by Bender
1 day ago
I can spot them but the feds are working on taking down the biggest residential proxy malware nodes. It's a game of whack-a-mole but I will let them play that game. There are some easy ways to spot some of them but I will save that for another article.
Not all residential proxies are malware. You can get paid crypto to offer up your connection. Prices will go up because of the malware crackdowns but the industry will still exist.
> You can get paid crypto to offer up your connection.
Voluntary malware? Funded malware facilitation?
I'm not against crypto, but it would sound more legit if you removed the word crypto from your sentence. If it's exclusively the ability to be paid in crypto, as opposed to local currency or USD, then I'd guess it leans pretty heavily to shady-ness.
I pretty much think all residential proxy traffic is undesirable - otherwise it wouldn't need to use a residential proxy (they're used to get around erstwhile blocking, which someone has actively chosen to put in place - rightly or wrongly).
What part of that is malware?
We've already established that you wish to block basically the entire internet including two actual continents, no wonder someone who was really interested in your site would try to view it with a residential proxy.
How about phonecalling someone with an unblocked connection and having them send pictures of the pages. Would you block that if you could?