Why don't you launch your own bots? Just need residential IPs.
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Devices with enough processing power to "pass" as a human-controlled device are hard.
A router or printer is definitely not going to cut it...
How would they know it's controlled by a human?
Annoying javascript proof of work stuff. And canvas data extraction.
If your device doesn't reply quickly enough...
A cheap smartphone will pass that.
My Pixel struggles if i have a lot going on. My Huawei sometimes fails Cloudflare eben if I don't.
Sites must suffer a lot of false positives
Okay then an old laptop with a smartphone tethered. Or buy IPs from a vendor. playwright X or Medium, profit
Or start a business leasing computers. Have considered this. The marketing looks hard.
How does that work?
Buy bulk lot of ex-lease business laptops running Windows for cheap.
They're mostly flagship products, well built, but three years old.
Install Linux. Maybe upgrade RAM. Install another admin account, openssh-server, and Tor running a Hidden Service on port 22.
Advertise with a promise of cloud monitoring, and tech support on demand.
Ironically, this will need to be heavily marketed. And I don't know how you'd market this through legal channels
I have done so in a small way on FB and Gumtree.
I haven't made use of my fully legal and disclosed backdoor for anything, though.
But at scale, I could.
Just not sure its worthwhile. Cheap disposable junk laptops from China are so cheap, and consumers so unwary...
I didn't even think of that. I just assume they see a ton of registrations with spammy activity and they block that IP range.
I guess you couldn't use VPN's if that's how they did it though.
Plenty of vendors of mobile IPs. No way to block those. IPv6. Plenty of successful bot farmers around.