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web-scraping
Coverage of web-scraping in the Nexus archive.
- Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher found that Bright Data's iOS SDK, embedded in free apps, turns devices like smart TVs into exit nodes for web-scraping traffic used by the AI industry. The company, successor to Luminati, claims to operate the world's largest residential proxy network.