But, my main point, is that the whole business is "on the up and up" vs some dark botnet.
Honeygain is a platform where people sell their residential internet connection and bandwidth to these companies for money.
For comparison Honeygain pays someone 10 cents per GB, and Oxylabs sells it for $8/GB.
> While operators of residential proxies often extol the privacy and freedom of expression benefits of residential proxies, Google Threat Intelligence Group’s (GTIG) research shows that these proxies are overwhelmingly misused by bad actors
[1] Using the website mentioned by user Rasbora https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837806
Saying you don't know something in the comments of an article that explains that thing is a bold strategy