ISP proxies, AI crawlers, and the slow death of datacenter IPs: 2026 in numbers
TL;DR Bots passed humans on the open web. IP reputation feeds stopped working for residential traffic. IPv4 prices collapsed. AI crawlers became a measurable tax on public sites. And Europe finally started writing big GDPR checks while only fining 1.3% of complaints. If you ship anything that touc
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