"Residential proxies" are just botnets: it's mass-spread software under direct central control without the knowledge of the owners of the machines.
Thanks for clarifying the language. I don’t understand why we softened ‘botnet’, it’s much clearer and powerful.
You resell a game, bundling a botnet proxy inside, and make it freemium: free if you accept T&C with a service allowing using your device connection for research purposes (or whatever wording could be even more confusing), or pay $20.
It's no longer a botnet, it's a "residential proxy" and you are doing clean business.
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Trillion dollar AI companies use/used these to scrape the Internet. You don’t want to smear their good names do you?