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by m3rc2 hours ago |
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upvoteby x0xMaximus2 hours ago|
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The industry is so backwards, there are residential proxy companies that are directly paid by one of the largest market research firms. I have discussed this at length https://www.reddit.com/r/Marketresearch/comments/1s2tl0o/ope...

It should be a bipartisan issue that a Swedish company is paying a UAE Residential Proxy company [1] to build tools that allow people from anywhere in the world to take US political polls that are used by both parties to collect election data.

Just for starters, you can't even think about soliciting online work from a panel without a robust residential proxy detection methods. We had to build our own:

`wget -N 'https://grip.net/files/grip-proxy-30d.mmdb'`

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOmeQcwSK3o flagged by Nokia Deepfield and CTRL for it's involvement in botnets

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upvoteby parineum1 hours ago|
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Polling data isn't some guaranteed right or something. If you ask the Internet questions and then sell the collated answers, it's your job to authenticate the responses or your polls will be wildly wrong and people will stop buying them.

Which is already the case and nobody but a bunch of campaign contractors who can't justify their do nothing jobs anymore cares.

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upvoteby schoen1 hours ago|
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I just remembered that in the story "Simulacron-3", there is ostensibly a law requiring people to respond to opinion polls. It is illegal to refuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3

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upvoteby x0xMaximus1 hours ago|
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Exactly, it’s a beautiful thing when the market is rational https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CINT.ST/
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upvoteby charcircuit2 hours ago|
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Someone using an IP that a geoip database says is US, doesn't mean that person is a US voter. The existence of proxies on the internet is a feature.
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upvoteby x0xMaximus2 hours ago|
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Obviously, a problem not even fully addressed by L2’s datasets. Sure, but the use of proxies to masquerade the identity of users being sold to researcher buyers that paid for a different service is fraud
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upvoteby charcircuit32 minutes ago|
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It makes me question why the surveys don't ask for the users country. That way they cd can figure it out without trying to guess it based off of IP.
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upvoteby x0xMaximus10 minutes ago|
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Users/respondents lie, and many buyers/researchers are neo-luddites; most C level still come from the telemarketing days. A fun example: mobile targeting is terrible when off wifi because all survey platforms uniq identify users based off their IPv4, so any T-Mobile LTE users in the same city going through the same CGNAT often share profiling data that ends up conflicting, which ends up meaning they don't get sent into the best survey(s). The issue is even worse in heavy IPv6 countries like India+France.
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