Maybe this is too obvious to say but it doesn't matter what they're selling the access for, it's the unwanted installation of the proxy that's malware. If you're buying access from a service that gets its residential network access that way you're contributing to the problem.
Surely you've been on HN long enough to know people just read the headline. Not that it would stop all sniping, but that headline doesn't even include "program" (or "compute").
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