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How mobile/residential proxies legal?
I plan to launch a mobile proxy business in India and have the technical capability to do so.
However, I’m concerned about the legal implications, particularly regarding liability if someone uses my service for illegal activities. Even if I maintain logs, Indian law enforcement may not fully understand proxies, and I could still be held responsible.
**My question is: How are companies in countries like Germany or Italy operating similar businesses legally without issues? **
Do they partner directly with mobile providers? If so, is this approach feasible in India? I’d appreciate any insights or advice you can share to clarify this.
Thank you in advance for your guidance!
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If you look at something like brightdata proxy...they run a very deceptive organization and definitely DO NOT partner with anyone on the receiving end of using random ass endpoints as egress proxy points for their commercially available proxy. This practice violates TOS on just about any residential ISP the user devices are on.
--- all brightdata links ---
https://brightdata.com/
https://bright-sdk.com/
https://earnapp.com/ -- straight up malware
https://bright4good.eco/ -- straight up malware
--- all brightdata links ---
They essentially either run these fronts - like this bullshit climate change deal, or pay app devs to include their SDK in apps. It's super deceptive and IMO immoral and if not illegal but nobody does anything about it (i'm not a lawyer).
The behavior IMO is abhorrent and this is just malware for the deceived consumer agreeing to proxy traffic without actually knowing regardless of what they (or you) claim to tell the end user who installs phone/tv/other apps that obviously don't read whatever insane policy is telling the consumer they are agreeing to the baked in malware coming with the apps.
Most often, proxy providers do not partner directly with residential/mobile providers.
Unsuspecting users are usually providing the bandwidth of their residential or mobile connection for free when they install a free VPN app as mentioned above. Or even worse, the provider uses a botnet of compromised IoT devices.
There is also a third source for residential IP addresses: those fraudulently associated to any popular residential ISP which is not the real owner or announcer of the space, but the address whois and other metrics claim otherwise.
Knowing how things are in India ..
Don't do it. You will be held responsible for everything.
Not really a good idea to start this in india, unless you are backed by multiple crap load of money , and I'm just curious how exactly you plan to do it ? Would love to learn more about it
I have the knowledge and tech to do it, but main issue is legal compliance.
true, I am thinking to drop this idea.
Yeah but there are providers like airproxy who is providing dedicated proxies. Don't know how they do it without any legal issues.
Any "legal issues" can be solved by millions of dollars. Reguards.
What are your plans i want to know how do you plan to get these proxies in first place please share if possible
I dont have legal advice about India.
But I have technical advice about this, it's not a matter of "if", residential proxies are used for illegal activities 80% of the time. It's not a thing you can prevent.
India isn't the best place to incorporate for many even if that is where they are based.
You can legally register your business offshore. Seychelles, Wyoming etc.
This can even be anonymous.
You could also register your business abroad somewhere 'friendlier' such as the UK.
Interesting there are no working Tor exit nodes in India.
It would be a breakthrough getting that done. Tor is the most well known documented proxy