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Brightdata? Isn't that the israeli firm formerly called luminati that sells you shady "high quality residential IPs" that you can rotate to scrape the web?

• timpera 7mo ago
  Yes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.
  • bright2026 7mo ago
    Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.
  • preinheimer 7mo ago
    There was a research paper several years ago showing that the "residential IP" stuff is powered by botnets and compromised devices. Luminati is specifically called out. Paper: https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-residential-ip-proxy-as-a-dark-service-dea9010a0e29 https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...
• jstanley 7mo ago
  Yes. Their hosted browser service is one of the best ones out there.
• ikidd 7mo ago
  Now I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.