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[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Resproxies are not inherently illegal. Some are used for evading censorship by routing internet traffic through ordinary looking residential homes. AI companies, for example, increasingly rely on resproxies to scrape data from multiple places on the internet in one go to train their AI models.

I "love" how that paragraph tries to paint AI companies use of hijacked residential TV's to avoid being detected as they scrape the web for training data to steal as some kind of legitimate use of hijacked TV's.

Pro tip to Zack Whittaker, the Techcrucnh author: There is NO legitimate use of someone else's Internet connection without their knowledge and approval. Full stop.