I think this is early, but great idea. The founders definitely have a big vision to bring to reality.
FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
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#33I have a project I want to do that would involve a lot of YouTube scraping. But they'll throttle you if they detect it. This led me down the rabbit hole into the world of residential proxy services. Some of them[0] advertise up to 40 million IPs. I can't imagine many of the owners of those IPs know what they're being used for. It would be cool if there was a reputable open source project that would let people share/b…
SEO companies are big customers of products like this. Scraping Google at scale requires a huge budget for proxies and IP blocks, and I believe they apply ML to detect people abusing their service.
I actually don't think I would need to make a ridiculous amount of requests. The project is a pinning service where people submit a video URL so they can do things like manage lists of the videos they watch (think goodreads for web videos). I need to scrape the video description and tags for each submitted URL. It would be nice to just do it from the user's browser, but the same origin policy won't allow that. A browser extension is the next obvious route, but that has its own issues. I was thinking to first attempt the request via CloudFlare workers, then fall back to a residential proxy service. No idea how usable workers would end up being for this sort of scraping.
Re: FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
#34I have a project I want to do that would involve a lot of YouTube scraping. But they'll throttle you if they detect it. This led me down the rabbit hole into the world of residential proxy services. Some of them[0] advertise up to 40 million IPs. I can't imagine many of the owners of those IPs know what they're being used for. It would be cool if there was a reputable open source project that would let people share/b…
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#35They tried to promote the launch of this service on a bunch of linux-related subreddits 6 months ago, and I wasn't much of a fan of the concept or the way they advertised it, in skipping over the p2p nature of the system. Their answer to the question of 'what happens when a bad actor has their illegal activity routed through my connection' seemed illogical. They claimed that as more people signed up, the proportion o…
The main page copy seems misleading bordering on malicious: > No bandwidth caps. No throttling. Stream all day, and download away. Yes, no caps on the tunneled connection. But it will happily use up your home connection data caps with both your own and other people's traffic. Then once you run an exit for long enough, your home network will get tor-like treatment from many CAPTCHAs and you'll be blocked from anything…
> Then once you run an exit for long enough, your home network will get tor-like treatment from many CAPTCHAs and you'll be blocked from anything on cloudflare.
That'll take a matter of minutes. It doesn't take much to get on googles shitlist as soon as you do any sort of bot activity against their services. I manage to get on it by just searching humanly!
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I can't imagine many of the owners of those IPs know what they're being used for. They don’t. For instance, Luminati, possibly the best known player in this market, uses HolaVPN users as exit nodes.[1] [1] https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk-en/security/news/cybercr...
Thanks for the link. I figured something like that had to be the case. I can't really think of a legitimate way to get access to that many IPs.
I periodically see ads on Kijiji (Craigslist for Canada) offering you 50 bucks for your internet connection. If that is the going rate, 50 million I enormously expensive.
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You forgot to switch accounts before posting the second comment.
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#38Wait, so the idea is basically, don't trust ur ISP? Have you tried Craig from Bosnia?
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#39The comments here make me wonder it this so actually made by some malicious state.
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It’s clearly not made for people who don’t want their dog shot by fed bois.
Oh thanks, that makes sense. I was trying to figure out what the upside was for this, but I forgot about the 1-on-1 potential with the feds. It's pretty hard to get in touch with them otherwise.
It's actually not that difficult. Our business had a massive illegal purchase attempted by a shady character. Googled FBI location closest to me. Actually got a human to answer and discussed how we should proceed. Surprised me much.