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thinking about selling access to a niche market intelligence dataset that tracks price changes, new ad creatives and changes across online store. it would have a weekly PDF brief and CSV export plus a searchable dashboard/API, and most of the work would be keeping a reliable history rather than...

Pulled down a free tool online and noticed it calls out somewhere every launch, and with the amount of account and proxy data it can see I'm not comfortable until I know what's actually leaving my machine. Blocking it at the firewall usually just breaks it or it finds another route, so that...

Picked up a batch of aged accounts and half of them got flagged for verification within a week of me actually using them. The dormant ones were fine. Trying to understand what the platforms are actually looking at. Is it the login fingerprint or device mismatch when a new operator takes over an...

Some proxy or hosting ranges remain flagged by services such as Spamhaus, MaxMind, or IPQualityScore even after the original abuse has stopped. Providers often replace the allocation instead of trying to correct its reputation. Has anyone dealt with the legitimate remediation process for an...

Every big cloud provider wants a card + phone verification tied to a real identity now, which isn't great when you're running a few hundred scraper instances that might get flagged and killed. What's should I use instead? shady VPS, instance rotations, something else entirely?

Been scaling up content production with AI on a few sites and getting paranoid after seeing "ranking tanked, pretty sure it's the AI content" threads pop up, but plenty of other people saying their AI-heavy sites are still ranking fine months later with zero issues. Feels like everyone's had a...

Grabbed a copy of a tool I really needed from a friend and now i'm second-guessing myself before I actually run it... read many stories about free tools shipping with stealers or worse into the installer, even in ones that look totally legit and working What should I check? full offline VM...

Doing some large-scale scraping and the usual residential proxy + headless combo gets caught almost immediately now on anything sitting behind the bigger bot-management providers. Not just rate limited, actually served a different page / silently fed garbage data half the time which took me a...

while most of the training is relying on public web data, big tech companies are building huge private datasets manually created by experts to tune the models to answer requests and do agentic stuff, and that’s becoming very valuable for companies and AI training in general. Are leaks of those...

Are current captchas still sound against AI/computer vision? I feel everybody is hyping it up as hell, and I’m plying with it to make my automations faster, but for many of them I feel like paying some dude to solve captha all day is still the most convininent option rn… I was wondering what’s...

Years ago I had no problems finding new clean proxies to rotate, now I’m starting to struggle, looks like anything I try gets flagged. Maybe I’m looking for them in the wrong places and finding only main stream ones? I continue spending money and keep getting flagged, it’s becoming...