For AI training data / competitor monitoring — how do you choose proxies without the headache?

[kerry]

Over the past few months I’ve been running tasks that require real-time scraping of public web

pages. I’ve found that proxy quality directly impacts the stability of the entire pipeline.

Tried a few providers before — some had heavily polluted IPs, others looked cheap but wasted a lot of traffic in practice. Recently switched to Helodata. Residential success rate stays above 99%, supports city and ASN targeting, and standard protocol integration is straightforward.

They put a fair amount of emphasis on compliant sourcing, which feels more reassuring for long-

running projects. Anyone interested can take a look:

Anyone working on similar AI data pipelines or e-commerce monitoring — any pitfalls you’ve run into that are worth sharing?

 

[kerry]

Just to add, the one I’m currently using is this: [ https://helodata.com?ref=7s9k2g ] Success rate is a bit more stable than before, for reference.