Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 4d
That's not because of surveillance. Reuters and many other sites are trying to stop their content from being scraped by AI companies. Typically they put limits on total content downloaded per IP address. AI companies end up hitting those limits quickly. So they rent VPNs to try to get access to more.
That is not as easy as you think it is. IP address space is relatively cheap per IP address. But it is much more expensive per IP address prefix, which is how the filtering actually works. Hence why these companies use VPNs to rent diverse IP address space.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 3d
That's fair.
