> residential proxy node and sells your IP address to third parties for fraud, scraping, and ad abuse.

I know the potential for bad actors here, but there is legitimate use of these services.

I used to work in the “brand protection” space. Our entire business model was SOC-aaS, scraping, verifying, and ending lookalike sites among other threats. If you’ve banked at Wells Fargo or had an iCloud account, our job was to try and make that a little bit safer.

Fact is the enemy gets a vote and quite many so-called threat actors are buying very capable kits that know what the fingerprint of a clean room virtual instance or VPN looks like.