It’s surprisingly cheap to get access to services which fan out your requests over millions of normal residential IPs, making them (I assume) hard to block.
Of course their use can be highly objectionable, as well as how they got the proxies installed in homes of people in the first place (semi-malware?)
This is a euphemism right? Like what they're really saying is that this service would make it possible to fake ad traffic right?
> Hackers and fraudsters use various schemes to fake ad traffic and, as a result, a vast number of ads are never seen by real people. Therefore, more and more companies use proxies to detect fraud, improve ad performance, and check advertisers’ landing pages anonymously.
They claim 30M residential IP addresses.. How would this be done otherwise?
There's no info on the site about "signing up" to be a proxy, just about using them..
> When these application vendors integrate the Luminati SDK, their users are offered the alternative to not watch these video ads in return for opting in to the Luminati network.