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Why are residential proxy providers charging per GB?

1•maxalbarello•1h ago
I've been astonished to see how much residential proxy providers charge for their services (and how little they pay the actual people providing the proxies).

The thing that I cannot wrap my head around is why they are charging per GB when bandwidth (especially residential) is basically free. Internet traffic is basically free at the margin for a household (as long as it doesn't exceed a huge amount) so why charge per GB?

Scientists have successfully measured the instantaneous power of black hole jet

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02828-3
1•modinfo•2m ago•0 comments

Back When Smoking Was Rewarded

https://creativepro.com/scanning-around-gene-back-when-smoking-was-rewarded/
1•austinallegro•4m ago•0 comments

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-now-the-most-popular-distro-on-proton-db/
2•clircle•4m ago•0 comments

Extinct Cousin Loved Eating Grass [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD7E-gf74w0
1•gmays•4m ago•0 comments

Age verification is a mess but we're doing it anyway

https://www.theverge.com/policy/913038/age-verification-flaws
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

We Disagree on a Lot. But We Know This Law Must Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/section-702-surveillance-safe-act.html
1•Cider9986•5m ago•0 comments

American farmers bet on solar. Then Trump changed the rules

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/american-farmers-bet-on-solar-then-trump-changed-the-rules/
1•speckx•5m ago•0 comments

EuroLLVM 2026 Round Table Summary: MLIR Canonicalization

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/eurollvm-2026-round-table-summary-mlir-canonicalization/90588
1•matt_d•6m ago•0 comments

The American consumer market is larger than the EU and China's combined

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_markets
3•jjmarr•9m ago•0 comments

xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta)

https://twitter.com/techdevnotes/status/2045072883206991973
3•sergiotapia•9m ago•0 comments

Robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1135416/how-robots-learn-brief-contemporary-history/
1•Brajeshwar•10m ago•0 comments

MoqBoy: Anarchy Gameboy Player

https://moq.dev/blog/moq-boy/
1•kixelated•10m ago•0 comments

Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers

https://expression.fire.org/p/gen-z-is-10-times-more-accepting
2•delichon•11m ago•0 comments

Our Longing for Inconvenience

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inconvenience
2•giraffe_lady•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Waputer – The WebAssembly Computer

https://waputer.app
1•marcandrysco•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bookmark Tool in Common Lisp

https://github.com/ediw8311xht/cl-bookmark-tool
1•landdate•13m ago•0 comments

The Puppetmaster reveals his form

https://asimpleman333.github.io/Aurora2/
1•rogmash•15m ago•0 comments

Manage agent skills with GitHub CLI

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-manage-agent-skills-with-github-cli/
1•dangoor•17m ago•0 comments

Playdate won't have games using AI-generated assets

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/panic-won-t-release-playdate-titles-that-use-some-forms-...
2•glimshe•17m ago•0 comments

Controversial FISA program extended by House but only until April 30

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/controversial-surveillance-program-extended-by-house-but-only-until-...
2•anigbrowl•18m ago•1 comments

Skill Doc Generator: Turn Any Docs URL into Claude Skills

https://github.com/DemboNauta/skill-doc-generator
1•edgar_dev•18m ago•0 comments

Twenty Moves Suffice for Rubik's Cube

https://www.gathering4gardner.org/com-2024-01-21/
2•jhncls•19m ago•1 comments

Parsebench open leaderboard for PDF parsing

https://huggingface.co/datasets/llamaindex/ParseBench
1•pierre•19m ago•0 comments

The only fonts I use

https://rgo.pt/posts/fonts-i-use
3•kraktoos•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: EX LIBRIS – a library-crawling RPG made with a 2000s engine

http://www.inpatientpress.net/inpatient-interactive/2026/4/16/ex-libris
1•idempotent_•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Codemaxxed – 350M+ LOC and a GitHub cease and desist

https://github.com/jshchnz/codemaxxed
1•jshchnz•21m ago•0 comments

I Tried the LLM Wiki and RAG on Todays News from BBC, CNN, Euronews

https://99helpers.com/wiki/latest-daily-news/israel-lebanon-ceasefire
3•nickk81•22m ago•0 comments

The Electronic Technical Reference Manual

http://www.techhelpmanual.com/2-main_menu.html
1•elvis70•22m ago•0 comments

OVH is increasing hosting prices Up to 4×

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1rayqsw/ovh_raises_prices_my_new_offer_is_551_higher/
2•onebitwise•25m ago•1 comments

Why AI Needs a Sense of Smell

https://www.noemamag.com/why-ai-needs-a-sense-of-smell/
1•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments