---
title: "Ethical Residential Proxies | How Rayobyte Sources IPs"
description: "How Rayobyte sources residential IPs with opt-in consent, vets customers, blocks sensitive sites and acts on abuse reports, as an EWDCI certified member."
url: "https://rayobyte.com/products/rotating-residential-ips/ethics/"
updated: "2026-10-01T00:32:35.752Z"
---

# Every device on our residential network opted in.

People share their connection only after accepting a clear consent screen, and every app lets them opt out at any time.

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## Ethics you can check.

Every residential IP comes from a person who opted in. We know every paying customer, and every abuse report gets action within one business day.

1. **A person installs an app**: A game or utility they get free, or an app that pays for sharing, built with the Cash Raven SDK.

2. **They opt in**: Sharing starts only after they accept a clear consent screen.

3. **They can leave any time**: Every app ships a visible opt-out.

4. **Risky targets are blocked**: Banks, government, login pages and reported sites are blocked. Unusual use triggers ID checks.

EWDCI certified · GDPR compliant · CCPA compliant

[Read the abuse process](https://rayobyte.com/rayobyte-abuse-processes/) | [Security and compliance](https://rayobyte.com/security-and-compliance/)

## Every device joins through an app, and only after its owner agrees.

We own our residential network, Cash Raven. Every device on it belongs to a person who installed an app built with the Cash Raven SDK, or the Cash Raven app itself, read a consent screen and agreed to share.

- **Apps built with the Cash Raven SDK**: Apps built with the Cash Raven SDK show a separate consent screen, "Share your bandwidth with Cash Raven". Nothing is shared unless the user agrees. In return they get a free or ad-free app. ([The Cash Raven SDK](https://cashraven.io/))

- **Only the IP and bandwidth**: Owners share their IP address and the bandwidth it relays. Cash Raven never reads their files, accounts, messages or browsing history.

- **Sharing stays within set limits**: Sharing runs inside daily and monthly data limits, with much tighter caps on mobile data than on Wi-Fi. One switch stops it at once; uninstalling removes everything.

[How Cash Raven works](https://cashraven.io/how-it-works)

## We know who uses the network, and we block risky targets.

- **Customers we know**: Unusual use, volume or targets trigger an ID check, and Scale Residential opens after a compliance review.

- **Sensitive sites blocked**: Banks, government, login pages and any site that reports abuse are blocked for every customer.

- **Traffic reviewed**: Automated and manual monitoring flags new domains and unusual request rates for review.

- **Action in one business day**: Every abuse report gets action within one business day. We were the first proxy provider to publish our abuse process. ([Abuse process](https://rayobyte.com/rayobyte-abuse-processes/))

- **Certified**: Rayobyte is an EWDCI certified member, and GDPR and CCPA compliant. ([Security and compliance](https://rayobyte.com/security-and-compliance/))

- **What we collect from customers**: We collect personal information from customers only when they give it, as in an ID check, and we say how it is used before we collect it. ([Privacy policy](https://rayobyte.com/privacy-policy/))

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## Trusted with production data for 11 years. From startups to the Fortune 5.

> We onboarded Rayobyte as one of hundreds of proxy providers we work with, and a few months later realized we rely on their IPs so much that they became our largest provider.
>
> Zoltan Bettenbuk, CTO, ScraperAPI

> Using Rayobyte proxies, we gather crucial insights from the job market to understand South Africa’s unemployment crisis.
>
> Kirstin Barth, Kululeko Consulting

[All case studies](https://rayobyte.com/case-studies/) | [Contact sales](https://rayobyte.com/contact-sales/)

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