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Looks rather sketchy but kudos for technical effort I guess. What are you using for backend? Proxy farms?

Came looking for this question. As far as I know, to beat Google's bot blockers, you have to use a very specific kind of proxy farm.

The shady type that runs on people's home PC's. Either via Trojan type hacking or some paid incentive to the home user to install the proxy.

If they've found some other loophole, that would be interesting.

We do use a large IP range but not from residential home. We found out residential IP ranges get blocked fairly easily so that is why we avoid using those.

No Torjans. No Hacking.

The most shady thing we do is web scraping Google because it is against the Terms of Service.

No proxy farm. Just replying on Cloud provider(s).

Only $100 for unlimited calls? Sounds sketchy, what am I missing?

It cost us less than $100/month to run the infrastructure. Seems like a fair price to me. Unless you are suggesting I increase my pricing?

edit: I am still working on optimizing the pricing plan.

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