TailScale Reviews

1. Raoul Steadman

   over 4 years ago

   They make the already great wireguard even better! Installation and configuration is a breeze, can easily connect to machines behind firewall(s) without altering anything.

   Definitely made life easier.

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

TailScale mentions (543)

• AI Can Now Link Your Crypto Wallet to Your Social Media for $4 — Here's How to Stop It

  Tailscale + exit node for clean IP rotation. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• My homelab stack in 2026: what runs, why, and how it all connects

  Tailscale is how every machine in the stack is reachable from outside the local network. All four machines are on the same Tailnet, which means I can reach any service from anywhere without opening ports or maintaining a VPN server. - Source: dev.to / 27 days ago

• Remote Coding: Running AI Agents From Anywhere (The Full Stack)

  Still the most reliable setup, honestly. SSH into your machine over Tailscale (or Mosh if your connection is rubbish), reattach your tmux session, carry on. Free, works everywhere, been around forever. The downside is it's all terminal and you need to know your way around. Not exactly mobile-friendly either. Typing SSH commands on a phone keyboard is proper painful. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Why I Run 22 Docker Services at Home

  The entire system runs on three machines connected via Tailscale mesh VPN:. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• 8 Key BYOC Deployment Options Every Data Engineer Should Know

  ClickHouse's BYOC also uses an outbound-only channel for management traffic. Control-plane connectivity from the ClickHouse VPC to the customer's BYOC VPC is provided over a Tailscale connection that is outbound-only from the customer's BYOC VPC. ClickHouse engineers must request time-bound, audited access through an internal approval system; they can only reach system tables and infrastructure components, never... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

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 / 4 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 / 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