> Groups like Bright Data have pretty good KYC.

They don't. I use their residential proxies without ever having KYC'd.

Sorry I don't know your use case, but wonder - looking at the Op post don't you feel like you are supporting a rather malicious company preying on tech illiterate users? I can understand the desire for a VPN that gives residential identities but plainly this is against the will or interests of the "provider".

Did you have to have a call with them to become a customer?

Nope.

Same - have accounts with 3 different services and have never been KYC'd even with heavy usage.