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Residential Proxies and Web Scraping: Future of the Industry with Neil Emeigh, CEO of Rayobyte

The topic for today’s episode of Ethical Data, Explained is proxies, web scraping, and ethical data collection. Henry Ng is joined by Neil Eimeigh to discuss Neil's journey to the idea of selling proxies as a service, what trends in the web scraping industry are on the rise, and why proxies can't get rid of the bad reputation no matter how many services used by millions daily rely on them. 

Neil is the Founder and CEO of Rayobyte (formerly Blazing SEO), a provider of an ethical proxy network and a scraping tool called Scraping Robot. 

Learn more from Neil Emeigh on building an ethical proxy network and the future of the web scraping industry. 

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Neil Emeigh on LinkedIn
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