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    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked
    with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated
    with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by
    the publicly-traded Israeli company 
    Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR].
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Google is pulling up the ladder for other internet crawlers for search engines and AI. It also hurts privacy and anonymity taking away an option to hide your IP without being an obvious VPN exit point.
Just annoyed that tencent and others are using alternate channels.
This was more like a fraud where they misled end users into running proxies.
Disrupting a publicly-traded Israeli company? Heads will roll on Monday.

This will cause a disruption to all sorts of intelligence operations. The FBI didn’t get the memo apparently.

Are residential proxies illegal? Why is the FBI involved with civil actions?
They seized netnut.com, but netnut.io is still online. Not sure how long that'll last though.
> most of the no-name TV streaming boxes for sale on the major e-commerce websites either come pre-installed with residential proxy software, or require the installation of proxy SDKs in order to use the device

> Even people without TV streaming boxes can find their smart TVs enrolled in residential proxy networks, just by installing one of thousands of apps available for download on Samsung and LG smart TVs. In a report released last month, the proxy tracking company Spur found 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. More than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen operating system had similar residential proxy components, Spur found.

Most interesting part of the article for me. I wonder if people with a streaming box run into tor-exit-node type problems.

> I wonder if people with a streaming box run into tor-exit-node type problems.

Some definitely do.

One of my family members had a mobile app installed that turned their device into a resi proxy, and I started to get super frequent CAPTCHAs, which I thought was odd. I found out what was happening when our IP got banned from Wikipedia with the reason "believed to be a residential proxy"