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Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by walrus01 on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:49PM (#26068417)
google "residential proxies for sale" - there is a whole huge grey market in selling proxies from peoples' actual residential internet connections, usually to be driven by bots or people in click-farms somewhere in a low labor cost location.

If you want to appear to be a legitimate comcast, charter, centurylink, frontier end user on a last mile broadband connection in a house somewhere in the US48 states, that's a standard service that fraudulent organizations make use of now.

Usually using software that people have been tricked into installing on their computers.

Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by technion on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:10PM (#26070168)
I don't need to Google them. "Residential proxies for sale" is one of the most common Facebook ads I see. There was one on my screen just five minutes ago. It's staggering that the industry is so blatant.
Re:Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot by darkwater on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:36PM (#26069757)
Exactly, and this is why "in theory" Google reCaptcha, the that is just a checkbox, is a needed solution. If they only used it to just stop spam and not also to track legitimate users...