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Re:Oxylabs(NordVPN) Fined $7.5M by jury for residential prox... by saurik on Saturday November 20, 2021 @07:08AM (#29287383)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692

http://web.archive.org/web/20191128170008/https://medium.com...

> See the problem is, NordVPN is linked closely with a Lithuanian data mining company called Tesonet. NordVPN is said to be one of Tesonet’s projects, Oxylabs.io is another one.

> So what’s the big deal? Oxylabs.io advertises on its website “32M+ residential proxies…100% anonymous proxies from all over the globe with zero IP blocking.” Think of “residential proxies” this way: 1.) Oxylabs installs some malware on to a user’s device, unknown to the user, by bundling it with other software that the user downloads. 2.)This malware enables Oxylabs to sell off your bandwidth, your computing power, and your IP address to third parties, who will route their internet traffic through your device.

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