Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit
m00dy | on: Residential proxies detected on White House network
PS: I own proxybase.xyz, and I think we’re the most transparent residential proxy network in the industry.

I don’t think it’s fair to call all residential proxy networks shady. Not all of us run our businesses that way. Our code is open, we have nothing to hide, and we use US-based stablecoins for transactions. User consent is our number one priority. I haven’t seen anyone else in the industry match that level of transparency.

alpineman | parent | next
Why do you use stablecoins and not credit cards like every other non-shady business on the internet?
m00dy | root | parent
We have a no-KYC policy to protect our users’ privacy. If we accepted credit cards, we could link users to their real identities. We don't want that.
alpineman | root | parent
Sounds pretty shady
dminik | parent | next
Uhh, and what exactly is the benefit for end users to have their devices send out ddos and scraping traffic?

It should be made illegal.

m00dy | root | parent
Hmm, all our proxy traffic goes through a centralized gateway, so we have security policies in place to help protect against DDoS attacks.
kevmo314 | parent
Do you really think your users aren’t installing onto every device they can break into to make a buck? Ignorance is bliss I guess.
m00dy | root | parent
Burning a compromised host just to run a public proxy client for pennies would be the worst trade-off imaginable for an attacker. It is loud, easily caught.