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Comment by anderspitman

I have a project I want to do that would involve a lot of YouTube scraping. But they'll throttle you if they detect it. This led me down the rabbit hole into the world of residential proxy services. Some of them[0] advertise up to 40 million IPs. I can't imagine many of the owners of those IPs know what they're being used for.

It would be cool if there was a reputable open source project that would let people share/buy residential proxy usage, but at the end of the day there's no way to guarantee people aren't doing horrible things with your IP.

[0]: https://smartproxy.com/

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