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Fact is that they do exist. Whether that meshes with your personal beliefs about economics seems beside the point.


They exist because they are either proxying networks that resell residential IPs (aka your internet connection) ...or because they are harvesting credentials.

The former will now make less sense as a business model, since UK isn't a good location to proxy traffic through anymore.




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