I have seen several services offering anywhere from 50,000-2,0000,000 residential ips as a pool for their vpn or proxy services.
A couple of these seem like large companies but many seem like they are re-selling or have access to some common service behind the scenes and are just re-skinning it.
I am building some software that requires a lot of IPs and would like to work out how they are doing this.
Someone suggested to me that they are using a botnet but I find it hard to believe a botnet of 20 mil is being advertised everywhere and hasn’t attracted any attention.
I’m not going to linkdrop services here but if you search for “residential vpn” or “residential proxy” you will see the companies I am talking about.
Just a question, why does your software need large numbers of IP addresses? I might hit the drawing board again and look at the design of your software…from my experience in large scale enterprise networks I front hundreds or even thousands of sites and even more microservices on a small number of VIPs (less than 10)…all possible with the right load balancing and routing hardware.
I’d imagine a company selling grey or black botnet proxies would be morally capable of exaggerating their numbers.
Lying aside, it wouldn’t be at all unrealistic for a large botnet to have had 20,000,000 different IPs that have connected to their c&cs over an extended period at all. They don’t actually have an active “pool” of 20mil addresses.
This is what hotspot shield was doing when they were free. Now you have to pay like any vpn. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that is also how an onion server works and is the basic concept behind a decentralised network.
Ima tryto help you a bit, maybe you already know this
You can do something Simple. Scrape data from another search engines and mix the data,
Google will block you with a captcha if you do 15 keyword searchs per minute.
Use Google subdomains goo.es goo.ve goo.ar…
Here comes the IPs, you probably know the rates and switches you need to make for this to be an actual solution
Built your scraper in a way that can get the reCaptcha and use a Captcha solver service, or simply use Buster to solve them for free, better yet try to get the idea behind it and implement it by yourself, or just use Google to solve the Google’s ReCaptcha.
That’s interesting. Do you suppose that because these VPNs are free and coming with a client that handles the tunneling people are abusing them by cracking the clients and then coding their own tunnels free of charge on the large networks? The main companies seem to charge a lot but there are several more dodgy looking companies offering large ip pools very cheap.
Nooo the onion server doesn’t work like that at all. For tor you have multiple server that you go through whenever you do a request. That’s how you become anonymous for the end point. It’s called a proxy.
That one is good but there are a few other options on the market to consider, https://infatica.io for example. Same principles stand behind all residential IP networks, even though, there are some minor differences that might be important in some cases. So it’s always better to look at all the choices.