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?
replyYes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.
replyThere 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.
replyPaper: https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...
Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.
replyYes. Their hosted browser service is one of the best ones out there.
replyNow I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.
reply