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.
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...
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.