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What portion of Fox's acquisition thesis for Roku was activating residential proxies (distributed AI crawling!) across all the units?
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kristianp
1d ago
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Is bypassing scraping blocks the main purpose of these residential proxy networks?
duskwuff
1d ago
Yes. For instance, Bright Data describes itself, on its home page, as the "all in one platform for proxies and web scraping".
kristianp
1d ago
From the article it can be used by botnets as well, linking to
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-st...
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