>types of operator running residential-proxy networks to attack web sites. This is such a malicious interpretation. Do you think VPN operating are also trying to attack websites? Both offer the same kind of product. >paid for hijacking their users' network connections Nothing is being hijacked. Again the author is using wording to try and paint these people as malicious actors. >Recently, LWN was subjected what was,…
If apps ship with stealth backdoors to sell access to the user's internal residential network, that's malware. I doubt any users want app providers to sell access to their private file server and anything else on their local network.
It doesn't seem like monopoly abuse to exclude such malware from application stores, just like key loggers or apps intercepting other apps network traffic without the user being aware of it (say the banking app's network traffic and password entry).