Why are residential proxy providers charging per GB?

2 pointsby maxalbarello3 maanden geleden1 comments

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?

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Regardozz3 maanden geleden

You are not just using someone else’s internet. And you are not paying for the internet itself. When you pay for a proxy, for example here https://www.simplynode.io/product/residential-proxies , you are paying for access through infrastructure and a different IP address, to bypass blocks and reach needed sites or complete different tasks .