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 / 25 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 / 3 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

Clickworker mentions (8)

• Is this legit?

  If you ever feel like trying your hand at it, clickworker.com is a site where you can register and get access to UHRS, were most of these jobs are around. Source: about 3 years ago

• My Account Suspended temporarily

  At your request, we have deleted your account on clickworker.com. After a waiting period of 40 days, your data will be permanently deleted or made anonymous. We will only keep the data required by law (e.g. invoices). Source: over 3 years ago

• Account Temporarily suspended two weeks ago

  I had my account temporarily suspended a couple weeks ago. "Routine security checks found that you have simultaneously used several accounts on clickworker.com." Of course this is ludicrous as I just have the one. When I responded to the email, which came in the middle of the night, it said the ticket had already been closed because I hadn't responded. So, I opened up another ticket to dispute the bogus claim... Source: over 3 years ago

• clickworker worker dashboard down?

  Edit: site is not down any more. Please go to clickworker.com and sign in. Update your bookmarks to the new dashboard URL. Thanks for pointing this out /u/randir14. Source: over 4 years ago

• Data Collection Websites Megalist: Get paid for your data (Mobile-Friendly)

  Clickworker (Signup Link): Clickworker has several data collection opportunities from time to time, though they are very infrequent. You are paid 30 days after the approval of your submission. Source: over 4 years ago