What are proxies called when real people traffic is used?

Question

proxy

What are proxies called when real people traffic is used?
I guess people don't even know about it.
Usually the lifetime of such proxies is very short and they are very unstable.

Answer 1

Any corporate proxy uses the traffic of real people :) And maybe they don't know about it - "the programmer came and poked something and the Internet appeared".

Answer 2

You probably mean botnet .