Eleven proxy networks and a country code: how a torrent client decides who rents your connection
Finishing a thread I left dangling: the torrent client from the booby-trapped-game post, named and taken apart. Its installer doesn’t contain a single payload URL — it asks a server, and the server answers based on what country you’re in. Eleven proxy vendors wired into the UI package, one slot per machine, and the geos that look clean turn out to be the ones with no consent screen. Two of the vendors it shipped me have since been dismantled by Google-led actions.