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		recyclelater on Oct 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads t... The word volunteer is what caught my attention so much, sounds like you were making a product to sell, so why use the word volunteer?

jermaustin1 on Oct 3, 2022 [–]

Because we didn't forcefully take over anyone's computer. You voluntarily signed up and installed the bot. And it was free if you installed the script to use the botnet to crawl your own websites.

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