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https://ur.io/
People can use this to look like local traffic.
This seems a bit sketchy to me. How am I getting paid for participating when it's completely free?
https://docs.ur.io/economic-model/economic-model
Their economic model comes from premium subscriptions. Its free to use with a data cap.
So what legally protects a provider from prison if users view illegal content via my network?
Reminds me of the guy who got his home raided and electronics seized for running a Tor exit node.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/
Seems risky and a huge legal hassle even if you don't end up in prison.
Exactly why the for project recommends doing exactly not that.
The problem for most users is: they actually want to look like traffic from somewhere else...
I meant to say residential traffic of whatever country they connect to instead of a data center.
looks sketchy af
agentic browser ew
corporate ew
real trustworthy privacy/security/anonymization/decentralization software is libre, open source, non-corporate, an unpaid not-for-profit free-time project that never makes use of any money, decentralized with no official host, and most importantly made by trans anarchist catgirls who use obscure operating systems
it seems very unsafe
https://github.com/urnetwork
Their software is open source.
that doesn't mean it's safe though