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The "solution" is to shoot CGNAT and to finally force the ISPs to adopt IPv6 so everybody can drop the addresses of a detected residential proxy into a ban list.

Continuing to allow CGNAT is what allows the residential proxies to hide because it tumbles the IP identity of bad actors with normal people.

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Tell us that you don't know how residential proxies work, without telling us that you don't know how residential proxies work.

No, they are correct, residential proxies behind a big ISP's CGNAT is much more valuable for miscreants because you can't block the individual who installed a free android flashlight with a residential proxy SDK embedded.

Your premise seems to be that you expect IPv6 addresses to be scarce.

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