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Application SDKs provide services to use the customer's bandwidth. Companies sell these services for web scraping. The client's hardware is then the proxy. The client is a one of "millions of rotating, residential and mobile IP addresses". So it's lying to the end user too. The one whose equipment is used
without agreement, for purposes unknown to them.
Jan Wildeboer thinks most AI companies rely on these proxy services to scrap the web.
So these companies (assuming AI) are definitely doing shady stuff.