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Findings from the world's largest residential proxy database — takedowns, network overlap, detection techniques, and what 500M+ daily signals reveal about anonymization infrastructure.

Research

Measuring the NetNut takedown: 28% of its IPs are still reachable through Bright Data

On July 2 the FBI and Google seized NetNut, a 33-million-IP residential proxy network. We watched it drain in real time and measured that Bright Data, the industry's self-described ethical provider, can still reach 28% of the same IPs. Then Bright Data quietly stopped routing residential traffic to google.com.

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