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Re: Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network

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Post by regenschutz »

mahboi wrote: post #27
ranger_danger wrote: post #13

Keep in mind these databases can be wildly inaccurate and basically impossible to prove them wrong (you can't prove a negative). I've seen this (and verified with others) with other sites like iknowwhatyoudownload.com where they allege your connection downloaded something very illegal (like CSAM) even though you know for certain it never happened and you haven't been hacked.

Do they show proof of the positive if you show up in there?

There really isn't any proof that they can show, since iknowwhatyoudownload legally aren't allowed to download anything that you're seeding (since that would be considered piracy).

IIRC, they only show the filename, last-seen timestamp and user agent. I can't verify it though since their website seems to be down?

Re: Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network

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Post by babooka »

this company Spur recently got millions in funding and their pricing seems to be directed at large companies. Who's buying these absolutely non-actionable IP databases? Do corporate buyers not understand you can't just block someone because they share the IP with someone else who downloaded a dodgy app?

Re: Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network

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Post by microcode »

babooka wrote: post #35

this company Spur recently got millions in funding and their pricing seems to be directed at large companies. Who's buying these absolutely non-actionable IP databases? Do corporate buyers not understand you can't just block someone because they share the IP with someone else who downloaded a dodgy app?

Spur's residential proxy data is not intended to be used as a blacklist. We recommend using it as enrichment alongside other signals, not blocking an IP just because it was associated with proxy activity.

More on why here: https://spur.us/blog/i-dont-like-big-gateways-and-i-cannot-l...

Re: Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network

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Post by babooka »

microcode wrote: post #38
babooka wrote: post #35

this company Spur recently got millions in funding and their pricing seems to be directed at large companies. Who's buying these absolutely non-actionable IP databases? Do corporate buyers not understand you can't just block someone because they share the IP with someone else who downloaded a dodgy app?

Spur's residential proxy data is not intended to be used as a blacklist. We recommend using it as enrichment alongside other signals, not blocking an IP just because it was associated with proxy activity. More on why here: https://spur.us/blog/i-dont-like-big-gateways-and-i-cannot-l...

thanks, that was exactly my point. Residential proxy signal's value is almost 0 but this product moves in the "I solve it all for you" price range.

Re: Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network

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Post by microcode »

koutakun wrote: post #32

Would be great if it told me how recently it was detected. I have a dynamic IP from my ISP and it could very well be someone else's device 3 days or 3 months ago.

The TTL for our data is 2-3 days so you can be fairly confident that it is up to date.
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