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Comment by perpetuallunch

> rent the user’s Internet connection out to strangers.

Harm to the user: none^

> spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks

Harm to the user: none^

Cost to the dodgy service provides: none

Government action to prevent continued dodgy services: none^

This is why internet securityg doomers have a hard time selling their story. Changing behaviour has an upfront, immediate, cost. Not changing it doesn't.

^close enough

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