Bright Data Reviews

1. Sam Mitchell

   | Owner at KittenProperties | 3 months 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: Smartproxy, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

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

Better Reviews

Bright Data mentions (29)

• Best Amazon Scraper APIs To Check Out in 2024

  Every person in the data scraping industry may have heard of the name BrightData. They are the biggest web scraping and proxy provider company in the industry, which offers dedicated scrapers for every major website known for collecting data by developers worldwide, including Amazon. - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• Basic Web Browser with Electron +APIS

  Bright Data (formerly Luminati): One of the largest providers with a wide range of customization options and a large number of IPs available. However, their pricing and usage structure can be complex, especially for new users (Proxyway). - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Scraping the unscrapable in Python using Playwright

  Create a new account on Bright Data to gain access to the admin dashboard of the Scraping Browser for the proxy integration with your application. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Web scraping using a headless browser in NodeJS

  Create an account on Bright Data to access all its services. But for this project, the focus would be on the Scraping Browser functionality. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Private subnet to public NAT to another Public AWS IP address should go public internet, right?

  Luminati, now called https://brightdata.com offers a service which would grant access to residual IPs. Source: about 1 year ago

Better mentions (6)

• Saying goodbye to an old friend – Aral Balkan

  Better Blocker was a privacy plugin for apple browsers. https://better.fyi/ It is no longer supported. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Is there any good Ad Blocker for Safari?

  Better. It blocks most ads and tracking, but actually allows well behaved ads, which I am happy to support. Better is built by an indy husband and wife team. I have no affiliation. https://better.fyi From their website: >>Better is hand-crafted by Small Technology Foundation, a tiny two-person-and-one-husky not-for-profit striving for social justice in the digital network age. We curate our own unique blocking... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Are advertisers coming for your dreams?

  That just isn’t true. Here’s one example: https://crystalapp.co/ and: https://better.fyi/ I use both on iOS Safari. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Have Recent Browser Privacy Updates Stopped Browser Fingerprinting? An Analysis

  Finally, Safari users can make fingerprinting even harder with extensions like Better or a VPN to obscure their IP address, location, and other device-specific data. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago

• Anonymous View adblock ? (Feature Request)

  I highly recommend installing Better Blocker. https://better.fyi/. Source: about 3 years ago