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707 points namukang | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.437s | source
1. vxNsr ◴[] No.29256486[source]
Just curious, why do you offer residential ips? My initial thoughts are reseller botting, but it honestly seems kinda slow for that, not to mention max rate of 1/min. So what else are residential ips good for?
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2. dkthehuman ◴[] No.29256736[source]
Yeah, Browserflow definitely wouldn't be able to compete with specialized bots for reselling in terms of speed.

I added support for residential IPs to handle sites that employ aggressive bot detection, but it's in private beta and so far there hasn't been much of a demand for it. If it turns out that it's not really needed for the use cases people have, I might just remove the feature!

3. tyingq ◴[] No.29256818[source]
>So what else are residential ips good for?

Chances are if you've thought of something you could scrape that would offer a broadly popular, real tangible benefit, they employ anti-bot measures that don't like non-residential ips.