Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet

Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by luckylion on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:15PM (#21217556)

> Is it via spyware running on people's machines? Shady people working at ISPs doing nefarious things for cash?

Might be as simple as https://hola.org/ & https://luminati.io/ - "unblock a website, download our VPN client", meaning you "unblock" by using somebody else's line. And the also sell access at luminati. Most users aren't aware of the implications.

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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by walrus01 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @02:40PM (#21217781)

It's a combination of three general things:

a) The type of "services" luckylion mentions where people have opted in to a shady gray market thing reselling proxies through their connection.

b) compromised home routers/gateway devices/internet of shit devices

c) compromised home PCs (mostly windows 7/10 trojans/botnets)

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