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Re:Snowflake by KRAKRISMOTT on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:21PM (#36927154)
That's already how many shady VPN software work. Remember if a VPN is "free", you are the product. Web scraping companies pay $$$$ for residential and mobile IPs.
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Re:Snowflake by drusepth on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:30PM (#36927210)
Friendly reminder that it's not just free VPNs that sell your data; many of the paid VPNs do also.
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Re:Snowflake by Fnoord on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:45AM (#36943362)
Yeah, those proprietary VPN apps.

"If you don't control the routing, you're being routed."

To be fair, ProtonVPN allows you to export their config. It seems to be an exception to your rule.

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Re:Snowflake by bebop404 on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:22PM (#36944979)
Yes, but running a Snowflake doesn't expose your IP to the website being visited, and therefore you're safe from abuse complaints/prosecution, unlike the people who run the exit nodes.
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