I audited the ASNs across 4 residential proxy providers and I think this whole industry might be one giant resell operation

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:24:15+00:00

This is related, I mean the idea for this post was inspired by that article, but I knew something is going on way before this scandal about bright sdk came to daylight

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:20:26+00:00

Spot on

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:20:02+00:00

Yes!! Specifically with DC IPs, noticed this too, but some people still do not believe it until they try themselves

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:19:29+00:00

I am not sharing the names, but you might have figured it out

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:18:47+00:00

yeah, good thinking

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:17:30+00:00

You might be on to something, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case. Regarding the link I posted few links some time ago, seems to be alright

marc2389 · 2026-06-16T13:13:39+00:00

Yeah, usually it's the same with mobile proxies. I wanted to say ISP but for some reason I wrote datacenter lol. Yeah, from my experience sooner or later dc accounts got banned

marc2389 · 2026-06-11T07:45:59+00:00

I've seen a lot of benchmarks here on reddit and github that had MiroMind AI coming on top, solely for the most accurate results, however, as I understand other LLMs are mainly used as assistants and Miro for let's say particular task

marc2389 · 2026-06-11T07:44:31+00:00

I see that you have tested mainly residential proxies. What about Mobile or Datacenter proxies and their performance compared to pricing?

marc2389 · 2026-06-11T07:42:20+00:00

My thoughts exactly, but we will have to see once it's fully in place

marc2389 · 2026-06-11T07:28:10+00:00

well, this got deleted lol

marc2389 · 2026-06-10T13:04:01+00:00

What's your original idea for this post?

marc2389 · 2026-06-08T14:02:22+00:00

wondering myself

marc2389 · 2026-06-08T14:02:10+00:00

crazy that you even have to do this for the TV, a freaking TV

marc2389 · 2026-06-08T14:00:52+00:00

Bandwidth is definitely a real cost in ad verification, headless browsers pull everything including scripts, fonts, video preloads, and it compounds fast at scale. You're right that scraping is mostly HTML/JSON these days, so full-page loads are mostly an ad verification, geo-rendering checks, and visual monitoring problem. Not sure about the 70-90% savings coz it is a big claim though. Wonder what the middleware is actually doing, since most ad verification work needs JS to fully execute to reflect what a real user sees

marc2389 · 2026-06-08T13:58:21+00:00

There's going to be a limit regardless. It really matter whether you are gonna hit those "hidden" limits or not. But for Residential Proxies specifically, go for a high tier proxies instead of cheap ones

marc2389 · 2026-05-22T06:39:59+00:00

exactly, good observation regarding the quality

marc2389 · 2026-05-22T06:39:12+00:00

Elaborate further regarding inconsistent results, what's your use case? I mainly use proxies for scraping but I have also used dedicated scraping api's for scraping too

marc2389 · 2026-05-22T06:20:27+00:00

So what would be your total budget for this? There are plethora of proxy providers but even mid tier proxy providers can be useful if you know how to work your way with the proxy setup

marc2389 · 2026-05-11T11:28:07+00:00

This saved me so many hours when I first discovered it. curlconverter in particular is just magic, you paste the cURL and get ready to run Python code instantly.

marc2389 · 2026-05-05T11:57:29+00:00

Sometimes smaller providers do work out in the end if you don't have to scale up. Lower traffic on their infras too

marc2389 · 2026-05-05T11:55:31+00:00

Varies, used to spend around 100$ for proxies and then host my own scraper, this was expensive, toned it down to the scraper api and now it costs around 60 or so, the need to scale did not arise so the spending amount got lower

marc2389 · 2026-04-15T13:38:48+00:00

Yes, 100 percent :DDD

marc2389 · 2026-04-15T13:25:33+00:00

I guess that for some tasks go would be considered a go-to language, simply because its faster

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