When Your Smart TV Stops Being Yours
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When Your Smart TV Stops Being Yours – Qurium Media Foundation
18 June 2026
In May 2026 the website of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) was targeted by a large-scale scraping event on the site, receiving traffic from approximately 1.35 million unique IP addresses, spread across more than 7,300 autonomous systems and 223 country codes. Qurium’s investigation “Opaque Scrapers Hiding in the Crowd” exposed that the observed behavior of the massive scraper attack was consistent with the Israeli owned NetNut’s ISP-integrated proxy model. NetNut claims that they scrape content in large scale without the use of proxies.
Less than a month after the release of Opaque Scrapers, Qurium, working…
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