Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers

Cybersecurity companies find resproxies challenging to tackle because the network traffic looks like it’s coming from an ordinary household, rather than a malicious hacker located overseas, as they might expect.

Ah, yes. Overseas, that wretched hive of scum and villainy, home of all malicious hackers and utterly devoid of any ordinary households.

Let me guess, you’ve never tried to host anything public yourself. If you run fail2ban long enough you end up with a blocklist that heavily skews towards a particular set of countries. Residential proxies are regularly used in criminal activity. I’ve personally and professionally been impacted by TAs using residential proxies to get around firewall rules as part of compromises.

If authorities in those countries took action against TAs and scammers more aggressively, perhaps blocking their entire country wouldn’t be seen as a valid defensive approach.

I regularly use an Albanian proxy, because of the add blocking benefits, but it’s unreal how many websites don’t allow you to use it’s functions with an Albanian ip.

Which is silly because Albanians can use VPNs too, so any aspiring it criminal isn’t really caught in the block.