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  • wraptilewraptile@fosstodon.org
    Aug 1, 2026, 3:04 AM

    @mattly this is a bad take. There are plenty of ethical proxies and proxies need to be protected to safeguard our online freedoms.

    IP addresses are already used incorrectly as identification which ipv4 is fundamentally incapable of due to limited address pool making people share same 'indentity" and ipv6 adoption is artificially limited because it's harder to use for tracking so residential proxies are important in this ecosystem to get around IP identity based censorship.

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  • Zuthalzuthal@floofy.tech
    Aug 1, 2026, 10:13 AM

    @wraptile @mattly The purpose of a residential proxy is to disguise other kinds of web traffic as coming from normal end users, and I can't see any legitimate use for that

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  • aquariusaquarius@f.cz
    Aug 2, 2026, 3:57 AM

    @zuthal @wraptile @mattly another issue with residential proxies is that most people don’t use network segmentation at home so the proxy effectively gains access to the whole home network and its devices. Also typical home networks these days are more than just a router and a couple of computers like it used to be two decades ago.

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  • wraptilewraptile@fosstodon.org
    Aug 3, 2026, 7:17 AM

    @zuthal @mattly "I can't see any legitimate use for that" your lack of basic imagination is astounding yet maybe it's just sheltered naiveté?

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  • Zuthalzuthal@floofy.tech
    Aug 3, 2026, 7:19 AM

    @wraptile @mattly Then tell me, what nonmalicious use requires disguising traffic that does not come from human users as traffic that does, using people's private computers for this generally without their consent or knowledge?

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  • wraptilewraptile@fosstodon.org
    Aug 3, 2026, 7:24 AM

    @zuthal @mattly I have no idea what are you even talking about with this "consent" and "private computers".

    Here's a real example though - I need residential proxies to read news from my own country because they geo lock access so my feeder can't pull it. You don't see how is that a good thing?

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