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Confessions from the people who run the proxies

CONFESSIONBen (Synthient)24 SEP 2026#DD7803B1

I used to snitch on proxy companies

I used to send the legal team at the big 5 companies screenshots of every competitor using their branding to distract them and waste everyones time/resource.

CONFESSIONa Shifty Exit Node24 SEP 2026#14288C32

the case study we will never write

My three highest-paying accounts are all doing things that would never survive a marketing review. They pay on time, they never complain, and I have stopped asking what the traffic is for.

CONFESSIONa Furtive Reverse Proxy24 SEP 2026#2717D55A

I have never counted them

We say 150 million IPs. I have said it on calls, in decks, on a podcast. Nobody at this company has ever counted them. I asked engineering once and the answer was a question about what counts as an IP.

CONFESSIONa Guilty Socket24 SEP 2026#048F29AB

unlimited has a number

The unlimited plan has a hard concurrency cap. I know the number. I have never said it on a call and I have never put it in writing. Twice a prospect has asked directly and twice I have said "it scales with your usage," which is technically a sentence.