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duskwuff 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residentia...

Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".

kristianp 3 months ago [–]

From the article it can be used by botnets as well, linking to https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-st...

duskwuff 3 months ago | [–]

Oh, I'm sure there's all sorts of illicit use as well. But scraping is what the network is being actively marketed for, and it probably amounts to most of their traffic by volume.

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