Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

  • modus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    What does this mean? What use would “their clients” need access to your network? What are they routing to through your network and how does that help with efficiency?

    • fatalicus@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      IP addresses.

      Their commercial clients are doing things that give IPs bad reputation or banned from services, so they use this service to get access to home IPs to use.

        • Buffalobuffalo@reddthat.com
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          2 days ago

          It would not shock me if companies like OpenAi would have used something like this so they could harvest large amounts of data without setting off usage limits. While sketchy not sure if this counts as scammy.