@tehstu @HunterZ @osm_tech anything your pihole would let you request, it'd let the scraper request. If the scraper wanted to scrape some ads from another network it might get blocked, I guess.

@HunterZ @osm_tech this is actually quite common. Mobile advertising SDKs for games, background apps, etc include residential scraping proxy functionality that they can sell to the highest bidder, and then when scrapers want to avoid restrictions they can pay a fraction of a penny to send their requests via your phone. Millions of people use apps with this built in and have no idea. Most websites don't want to ban the residential scrapers because it can hurt growth.