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?

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timpera 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	preinheimer 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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 Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...
	▲	bright2026 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.

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jstanley 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. Their hosted browser service is one of the best ones out there.

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ikidd 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Now I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.