I mean we can connect to residential ips. It’s not like with a regular VPN where they give us a generic server IP.
Is it correct to say that once we connect to residential ips through mysterium, it basically functions as proxies?
Incorrect. Mysterium VPN actually is connecting to a VPN server hosted on residential houses. Is not a proxy at all.
I assume you understand the difference between proxy and VPN. Then Mysterium VPN is connecting to residential VPN servers, where people like me have a homelab server or a raspberry pi and setup a VPN server (pre-packaged) by Mysterium.
since residential VPN servers IPs are unique, could a website differentiate a proxy from one of these residential VPN servers?
Actually this is the strength from Mysterium. Given thats its a residential IP its very hard for websites to identify thosr IP as proxy or a VPN server. Because they are not hosted in a datacenter and the ISP is an actual provider not a datacenter provider.
All this is taken onto account by services and websites to flag it as a VPN and block certain services like streaming.
So, from a service or website perspective he will think you are a legitimate user from whatever country the VPN is based on.
I tested this thoroughly and Mysterium VPNZ always gave me the best privacy and service availability compared with other VPN or proxy services. Specially because VPN tunnels all System connections while Proxy only does http and https connection “handover”.