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Growth · March 28, 2019

PacketStream

World's 1st peer-to-peer privacy marketplace

PacketStream launched on March 28, 2019 with 6 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

PacketStream has developed the world’s first peer-to-peer marketplace for buying & selling private bandwidth. Packeters earn money for sharing unutilized bandwidth with the network. Customers purchase bandwidth and route their web traffic through Packeters.

PacketStream residential proxies provide country targeting, connection-based rotation, 60-minute sticky sessions, and $1/GB metered pricing.

Route requests through real household connections in the country you pick. Every response comes back from the country you asked for, so your data means what you think it means. Common use cases include ecommerce price monitoring, product availability, market research, travel fare comparison, public web data collection, ad verification, localized search tracking, brand monitoring, content localization quality assurance, and website testing. Keep the scraper, headless browser or HTTP client you already have. Set one proxy URL and you are done — no SDK, no rewrite, no proxy list to babysit. HTTPS is recommended; SOCKS5 and HTTP are there when your client needs them. Requests leave from a…from packetstream.io

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