Synopsis: As more and more purchases take place online, companies are naturally required to share information about pricing and inventory on their websites. When this information is publicly available, it can be scraped by both aggregators and competing businesses. Today we examine both of these phenomena and explore how they…

Synopsis: We’ve discussed AI training as one use case for residential proxy networks, but text-based models are only one example of data-based decision making. Another can be found in price comparison. When determining prices, major retail companies regularly monitor the websites of their competitors as a part of their market…

Synopsis: Buyers on the Grass network may use your bandwidth to scrape data from the internet, but this doesn’t mean they access any of your personal information. By exploring how AI labs train their language models, we can learn a bit about what types of material they use Grass to…

The story so far… If you’re just joining us, here are a few posts we’ve made in the past to get you caught up to speed on our mission here: Grass 101: What Grass is Grass 102: On safety and privacy Enter The Data Wars: What’s going on with AI…

Today, we’ll explore the concept of Grass Points, the reward system for our app’s Beta phase. At present, these points are instrumental in determining the distribution of network ownership. Continue reading to discover how you can leverage this system and reap the benefits as one of the pioneering users of…

Let’s start with a thought experiment: At what point does the following text stop describing the current timeline, and transition into science fiction? Read carefully.

The Grass beta is live! We’ve been thrilled with the response to our initial launch and want to thank everyone for downloading the extension and giving feedback. A lot of people asked for more details about how Grass works, so we’re writing a post to answer some of your questions. …

Welcome to Grass beta! Entry to the Grass beta is invitation-only, so if you’ve made it here, congratulations. This is as early as it gets. Today we’ll go over Grass Points, the points-based rewards system that will be used on the app. At this stage, points are instrumental in determining…