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

UserInterface.io Reviews

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 / about 11 hours 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 / 2 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 / 3 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 / 4 months ago

UserInterface.io mentions (6)

• Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)

  SEEKING WORK | Armenia | Remote | Frontend developer My Stack: VueJS 3 & Laravel. HTML/CSS/JS/git/MacOS. UI/UX competency, has written two books and active on twitter: https://twitter.com/vponamariov Github https://github.com/victor-ponamariov/ English: B2+, able to communicate verbally. Personal site: https://user-interface.io/ personal projects UI/UX related: https://history.user-interface.io/... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer

  Maybe the first rule should be ‘physician/quack heal thyself... Then seek feedback’. The only UI/UX newsletter I subscribe to[0] also has a a similar problem, but the advice is usually solid. [0] https://user-interface.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: How did you increase your UX skills?

  I've got a lot of mileage out of following Victor Ponamariov: - https://user-interface.io - https://hundred.user-interface.io <- this is especially good - https://twitter.com/vponamariov. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]

  By the way, I’m subscribed to your newsletter. For anyone interested, check out https://user-interface.io. This guy sends random stuff about UI. Pretty decent. - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago

• I'm making simple UI tips. Hopefully useful for web devs for improving their interfaces.

  I've posted all of these tips on user-interface.io in a list. You can also find there past issues of my newsletter which is dedicated completely to UI/UX stuff. Source: over 5 years ago