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Is "residential proxy" a euphemism for botnets or is there a difference? Genuinely curious.


- worst is "extension" based traffic routing where your provider is essentially tricking end users into routing traffic through - opt-in p2p networks can be described as botnets sometimes, i try to avoid these but not as bad - good enough dISP proxies can be classified as residential quality, work quite well, although people have argued w me on their quality - managed business/enterprise residential gateways are ideal, because businesses opt in and allow the traffic - few other options




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