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microcode··on Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
The TTL for our data is 2-3 days so you can be fairly confident that it is up to date.
microcode··on Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
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...

microcode··on Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
I added a warning that should help with this now.
microcode··on Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
Yes. You can use https://spur.us/context/<ip> where the IP is the one you want to lookup.
microcode··on Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
Which proxy network(s) did you get tagged in?
microcode··on Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network
Try https://spur.us/context/<ip> where <ip> is the IP you want to query :)
microcode··on Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs
An Xbox/PlayStation controller is cheap and high quality.
microcode··on Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
You don't necessarily have to flash a custom firmware. Rooting the TV and killing the ad processes is usually sufficient.
microcode··on Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Indeed, many of these TVs serve ads by default on their screensavers and home screens.
microcode··on Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs
The experience with this is so much better. Hacking most Tuya based devices has become extremely easy when you use https://docs.libretiny.eu/ Replacing MyQ with ratgdo was one of the best IoT decisions I have ever made.
microcode··on Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
The consent screens say that they "may continue running in the background after you close the app".
microcode··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
I am struggling to see how exactly this is even considered piracy. Nobody was going to stream music in low quality off a slow AA server anyway. It's archival.
microcode··on Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
If you spoof user agent, you will get more captchas because it won't match their other fingerprinting.