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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by mardifoufs on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:46PM (#36117939)
There are ways to get residential proxies in a more ethical way these days. Some apps/extensions are now offering money for network access/network usage and they are open about what they are doing. They pay you with cash in exchange for your network, no covert VPN or sneaky SDK in unrelated apps.

I think even the more ethically dubious providers are shifting towards that model. Which makes sense since they have to pay anyways.

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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by iudqnolq on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:10PM (#36118140)
I'm skeptical even those services properly inform users about the risks and downsides. I also suspect those services turn a blind eye to resellers violating their consent policies
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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by explaininjs on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:32PM (#36118350)
Alternatively, the users are well aware and embrace the plausible deniability it lends their own traffic.
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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by iudqnolq on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:59PM (#36118612)
I think the experiences of people operating open relays suggest that would be a foolish assumption.

If you tell a police search team you have plausible deniability they will seize all your tech and investigate you. If you're actually guilty there's a decent chance there will be other incriminating evidence. If you're innocent this will be unpleasant, expensive, and they might end up finding what they think is evidence against you anyway

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Re:Mullvad: Removing the Support for Forwarded Ports by RockRobotRock on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:44PM (#36120910)
see: https://earnapp.com/
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