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So residential proxies should be clasified generaly speaking as cyber crime enablers since the hosts are obtained maliciously and the end customer also uses them in a malicious way.

Woudln't that be consider a datacenter proxy service? Datacenter proxies is an easier product line to understand, residential proxies on the other hand in my mind can be only aquired by making someone

Tbh based on my experience there is not many legitimate use case for that though. They're being used mostly for cyber crime. And a good residential proxy provider charge you arm and leg for that.

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Not really a "legitimate" use case, but I can imagine the scenario someone from a "restricted" country registering to a service using residential proxy (while the s

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* Most legit? Bypass region block (think of like netflix, etc), accessing cheaper services that's based on region that require residential IP, etc.

From me; I don't have real world experience, but residential proxies seem to either be hacked devices (botnets) or people willingly installing some "traffic monetizer" type of apps.

I’ve been reading about residential proxy seervices and I’m trying to understand how they’re actually sourced and why are people keep using them,

I have a residential lite Starlink plan and a Mini with the standby, very low bandwidth plan. My hope is to take the Mini out camping to check work, but that'll happen a few times a year if I'm lucky.

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What matter most here is using an IP that is not blocked by Youtube, so that is why we (Invidious maintainers) recommend selfhosting Invidious using residential internet instead of hosting it on a VPS

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@Chensao did you manage to get any of these without a Japanese residential address? Same question for @Fubukibox. I tried signups and haven't been able to find a way around not having an address for a

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Now when you connect to tailscale all traffic will exit via your home, aka residential IP.

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The only thing I can really think of is buying a Residential proxy.

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