I run 75 scrapers in production. Three of them do any fingerprint spoofing. Maybe five use residential proxies. The rest run on plain datacenter IPs or no proxy at all, and they have been running for months.
If you learned scraping from blog posts, that number probably sounds wrong to you. Every tutorial you have read starts the same way: sign up for a residential pool, install a stealth browser, randomize your fingerprint, throttle like a human. Then, on step five, you finally get to look at the actual website.
That order is backwards, and it is backwards on purpose. Proxy companies write most of the scraping content on the internet. They were never going to write "you probably do not need us."
The scraper with the $80 a month costume
Last month my guy sent me his Greenhouse job board scraper to fix. It had everything. Puppeteer with the stealth plugin. Rotating residential proxies. Randomized mouse movements between actions. Human-like typing delays.
