Editing Proxy server (section)

===Residential proxy (RESIP)===
A residential proxy is an intermediary that uses a real IP address provided by an [[Internet service provider|Internet Service Provider (ISP)]] with physical devices such as [[Mobile phone|mobiles]] and [[Personal computer|computers of end-users]]. Instead of connecting directly to a [[Server (computing)|server]], residential proxy users connect to the target through residential IP addresses. The target then identifies them as organic internet users. It does not let any tracking tool identify the reallocation of the user.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-17 |title=What Is a Proxy Server and How Does It Work? |url=https://iproyal.com/blog/what-is-a-proxy-server-and-how-does-it-work/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=IPRoyal.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Any residential proxy can send any number of concurrent requests, and IP addresses are directly related to a specific region.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Vincent |title=Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide: Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web |date=2019 |publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-78961-294-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQGGDwAAQBAJ&q=Residential+proxy&pg=PA76 |language=en |access-date=19 November 2020 |archive-date=17 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117214445/https://books.google.com/books?id=jQGGDwAAQBAJ&q=Residential+proxy&pg=PA76 |url-status=live }}</ref> Unlike regular residential proxies, which hide the user's real IP address behind another IP address, rotating residential proxies, also known as ''backconnect proxies'', conceal the user's real IP address behind a pool of proxies. These proxies switch between themselves at every session or at regular intervals.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Keenan |first1=James |title=What are Residential Proxies? |url=https://smartproxy.com/blog/what-is-a-residential-proxies-network |website=Smartproxy.com |access-date=26 December 2021 |archive-date=26 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226203128/https://smartproxy.com/blog/what-is-a-residential-proxies-network |url-status=live }}</ref>

Despite the providers assertion that the proxy hosts are voluntarily participating, numerous proxies are operated on potentially compromised hosts, including [[Internet of things]] devices. Through the process of cross-referencing the hosts, researchers have identified and analyzed logs that have been classified as [[potentially unwanted program]] and exposed a range of unauthorized activities conducted by RESIP hosts. These activities encompassed illegal promotion, fast fluxing, phishing, hosting malware, and more.<ref>{{Cite conference |last1=Mi |first1=Xianghang |last2=Feng |first2=Xuan |last3=Liao |first3=Xiaojing |last4=Liu |first4=Baojun |last5=Wang |first5=XiaoFeng |last6=Qian |first6=Feng |last7=Li |first7=Zhou |last8=Alrwais |first8=Sumayah |last9=Sun |first9=Limin |last10=Liu |first10=Ying |conference=2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) |title=Resident Evil: Understanding Residential IP Proxy as a Dark Service |date=May 2019 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8835239 |pages=1185–1201 |doi=10.1109/SP.2019.00011|isbn=978-1-5386-6660-9 |s2cid=132479013 |doi-access=free }}</ref>