Bright Data Reviews

1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · over 2 years ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

   🏁 Competitors: Decodo, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

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Bright Data mentions (45)

• Precursor

  Happy to offer a counter of some great products for anti-bot defeat: https://brightdata.com/ https://www.zenrows.com/ https://www.capsolver.com/ https://scrapfly.io/ hundreds of millions of residential ips, human browser fingerprints, custom browser binaries, auto solve of turnstyle, recaptcha v3, kasada, datadome, AWS WAF, etc if they come up. - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago

• Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison of the Top 10

  The best web scraping tools 2026 leaderboard hasn't changed; the gap has narrowed. Bright Data remains the safest bet for any team that wants to spend time on the data, not on the scraping. The 660-scraper library, 400M-IP network, pay-per-success pricing and unlimited concurrency are still uncontested at the high end. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

  Infrastructure Pass-Through (OpEx) Data extraction at scale is infrastructure-heavy. Bypassing modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) requires high-quality residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, and substantial browser-automation compute resources. Services like Bright Data charge significantly by the gigabyte for premium residential IPs. These variable infrastructure costs must be passed directly to the client,... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• LinkedIn Scraping Is Dead: 5 Legal, ToS-Safe Alternatives That Actually Work in 2026

  Bright Data has successfully defended web scraping in U.S. Courts and offers LinkedIn datasets pre-collected and ready to download. LinkedIn profile data on their dataset marketplace runs around $250 per 100,000 records. The freshness caveat is real: bulk datasets are snapshots, not real-time. If you need current job titles on a rolling basis, you're better with an enrichment API than a one-time dataset pull.... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a Live AI Market Research Terminal: How Bright Data and Convex Replace Polling With Real-Time Everything

  Bright Data built an open-source demo that solves this. It's called the Signal Terminal, a financial research tool built around that problem. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Aimchess mentions (20)

• I subbed to Aimchess for a month, here's my review

  I've been subscribed to Aimchess premium for a month now and have been using it daily as a means of studying chess, here's my review. Source: over 2 years ago

• More human like alternatives to chess.com / lichess analysis?

  I think that maybe aimchess.com might attempt that but I've never used it. Their claim is "Aimchess helps chess players like you improve faster by combining unique analytics with personalized lessons (created from your games!" but I have never tried it. Source: over 3 years ago

• Can you search for chess (opening theory) content by position?

  I'm pretty sure aimchess.com does this actually. If you go to analysis board and start making moves they'll show videos and courses that include the poisition you inputed. Source: over 3 years ago

• Any tips or drills that work on visualization?

  Aimchess has a mode for practicing visualization, but I haven't used it extensively. Source: over 3 years ago

• Hi Reddit, I’m Anish Giri, chess grandmaster, 4-time Dutch champion. AMA!

  This AMA has been organized by chess24 to celebrate Anish Giri becoming an official Play Magnus Group ambassador. The Play Magnus Group is the home of chess24, Chessable, Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, Aimchess and more. Source: over 4 years ago