Byteful, the UK-based provider of proxy servers, has become a member of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI). 

The consortium brings together companies in the web scraping industry, with the aim of promoting trust, forming ethical guidelines, and shaping relevant legislation. You can learn more by reading or watching our interview with the initiative’s executive director Christian Dawson.

In the process, Byteful underwent a formal review, gaining EWDCI’s Trust Seal. The review evaluated the company on the grounds of legality, ethical proxy sourcing and user monitoring, interaction with other websites, and social responsibility. 

EWDCI’s members include Oxylabs, Zyte, Kadoa, Rayobyte, and other well-known brands. 

The Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative is part of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, a self-proclaimed leading voice for web hosting, cloud infrastructure, and related tech. The i2Coalition also founded the VPN Trust Initiative to promote best practices in the VPN industry.

Infatica, the web infrastructure provider based in the UK, Singapore, and the UAE, has launched Data Platform. 

The platform functions as a wrapper around Infatica’s scraper APIs, allowing anyone to collect web data through a no-code browser interface. It consists of four components:

1. Scraper for extracting data from any provided URL.
2. SERP which scrapes Google Search results based on URLs or queries. 
3. AI search which returns prompt responses from three large language models: ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity – individually or combined. 
4. AI extract, used for fetching data based on a plain language prompt rather than specific URLs. The system interprets the intent and locates relevant data automatically. 

Rayobyte, the US-based provider of proxy servers and web scraping infrastructure, has introduced additional filtering features for its residential proxies. 

The new filters include autonomous system number (ASN) and ZIP code selection. They complement the previously available options to specify a country, state, or city. 

Rayobyte’s documentation states that all filters can be freely combined. However, this should be done with care, as each restriction reduces the number of available IPs in the pool.

Rayobyte’s proxy filtering feature is already available and can be used at no extra cost.

Oxylabs, the Lithuanian provider of web scraping infrastructure, has announced the agenda for OxyCon 2026, its annual conference on web data collection.

The conference will take place online on September 16. Participation is free of charge. 

This year’s event will include seven presentations and two panel discussions:

• The presenters will talk about building datasets with AI agents, loading dynamic content without a browser, AI’s role in production scraping, identifying where to prioritize your scraping efforts, building agentic workflows, and finding the best open-source web scraping repositories.
• The panelists will discuss how to turn industry challenges into a competitive advantage and how the web becoming more closed will impact the industry. 

Oxylabs, the Lithuanian provider of web data extraction tools and services, has announced a $130 million investment from global private equity firm Warburg Pincus.

The deal values Oxylabs at approximately $3.6 billion, making it the second unicorn to emerge from Lithuania’s Tesonet accelerator after cybersecurity company Nord Security, which Warburg Pincus also backs. Oxylabs also appears to be the first company in the proxy industry with a publicly confirmed unicorn valuation.

The investment comes from the Warburg Pincus Capital Solutions Founders Fund. It closed with more than $4 billion in commitments in 2024 and focuses on providing capital for growth, acquisitions, shareholder liquidity, and other strategic purposes.

Oxylabs says it will use the investment to expand its global infrastructure, advance its technology, and develop products for AI agents and other applications that require real-time web data.

According to Vytautas Savickas, Oxylabs’ Chief Executive Officer:

SOAX, the UK-based provider of proxy servers and web scraping tools, has made sweeping changes across its service. They include an updated web design, additions and removals from the product line-up, new features, revised pricing structure, and more. 

The provider calls this a reboot. The overarching idea is to give customers more control over the infrastructure. We’ll cover the highlights.

Our new review covers BartProxies – a renowned sneaker proxy provider that has since grown in scope and scale. The ISP proxies we received worked very well, and they didn’t cost much at all with a discount applied.

At the same time, the provider remains rooted in the glory days of sneaker reselling, which is to say, its user experience has fallen behind some competitors.

In the end, we decided to give BartProxies a respectable score of 7.9. Read the full review here: https://proxyway.com/reviews/bart-proxies

On July 2, 2026, Google published a blog post about disrupting the residential proxy network of NetNut, a proxy and web scraping infrastructure provider from Israel.

Google’s measures included: 1) disabling accounts associated with NetNut’s control infrastructure; 2) flagging NetNut’s SDK in Play Protect; and 3) sharing intelligence with other platform providers, intelligence teams, and authorities about the SDK. 

On the same day, the FBI and the IRS seized netnut.com, NetNut’s sister brand proxyjet.io, and divinetworks.com; the latter was used to supply the provider with ISP (static residential) proxy servers through direct contracts with internet service providers. According to Krebs, the takedown of NetNut’s main .io domain is in progress. 

Decodo, the Lithuanian provider of proxies and web scraping tools, has launched new targeting functionality for its datacenter and ISP proxy networks.

From now on, both products support state, city, and ASN targeting in addition to country selection. This significantly expands their usefulness for use cases that require local presence, such as search engine optimization or quality assurance.

The provider’s customers will be able to specify either a city or ASN when buying a new plan, modifying an existing plan, or replacing individual IPs.

Advanced targeting is rare for server-hosted proxies, with providers like Bright Data even deprecating these features. The cherry on top is that Decodo has decided to introduce them at no extra cost.

Oxylabs, the Lithuanian provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has announced the 2026 edition of OxyCon, its annual conference on web scraping.

As usual, the event will take place online on September 16. Attendance is free of charge and requires registration.

This year’s OxyCon will focus on three topics:

1. AI-native extraction & autonomous workflows
2. Adaptive real-time data & scalable infrastructure
3. Governance, compliance & strategic value

We’ve launched the 2026 edition of our proxy market report! This year, it:

• Features 13 companies that cover all segments of the market.
• Overviews three proxy server types: residential, mobile, and shared datacenter. 
• Describes the prevailing market trends informed by a questionnaire we sent to all participants. 
• Provides large-scale performance benchmarks enriched with years of historical data.