Ariadne Conill 🐰1d ago

this is wild: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks

thanks to @dne for sharing it with me

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs

Spur scanned 6,038 LG and Samsung smart TV apps and found 2,058 with residential proxy SDKs, exposing privacy and home network risks.

Spur Intelligence Corporation
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@ariadne wow. I wonder how that's monetized in the end - for botnets?
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Show threadDavid Gerard1d ago
@dngrs @ariadne mostly! this is where a lot of AI scraper spam comes from.
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@davidgerard @ariadne oh wow, the future of hosting has arrived
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@dngrs @ariadne

It is used on huge parts to harvest training data for llms. This is huge problem for smaller hosters, some open source projects, openstreetmap etc because they crawl web sites at intense depth without even basic caching which wastes lots of resources, money and often makes the service inoperable for legitimate users.

I'm shocked that this is not mentioned in the report or the comments here, in my bubble I had various reports of this problem.

You can't block those IPs because there are so many and you would also block legitimate users. That is exactly why they are using them.

#residentialproxy #fuck_ai