The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy

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News Source : Includesecurity.com

News Summary

  • Bright Data is a data-collection company that sells access to what it markets as the world’s largest residential proxy network of 400M+ home IP addresses that its customers route web-scraping traffic through.
  • The supply behind that network comes from an SDK: a piece of software embedded in consumer apps that turns their phone or smart TV into one of those exit nodes.
  • This research documents how that SDK works, which platforms have shipped it, and why the connected-TV is the ultimate residential proxy.
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