Draft talk:Oxylabs.io

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This article is full of misinformation. Why is it allowed?

Latest comment: 18 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Here is just a small sample of issues:

1. Statements in the article fail verification
Here is one example, a sentence from the current article:
“The company expanded its product suite in 2017 with the launch of residential proxies and data acquisition service.”
Both provided sources fail to verify this statement.
There are many other examples.

2. Many sources are not independent

• Source originating Builtin.com is a promo text written by Oxylabs themselves.
• Source Octo Browser lists Oxylabs as partner. Again, text is at least in part written by Oxylabs themselves.
  

There are many other examples.

3. Redundant sources, random link spamming
Example: The statement “The company was founded in Tesonet accelerator” has 5 sources. Only 2 of the 5 have any mention of Tesonet or any accelerator or any other affiliation. This is a common pattern, there are other examples. Article provides many sources, most of which, are irrelevant.

4. Sources only partially support the statements
Example. ”In 2024, Oxylabs launched OxyCopilot, an AI-powered assistant designed to help users build data scraping and parsing requests using natural language prompts”. This statement is supported by one source. The source barely mentions OxyCopilot, without information on it. Wikipedia statements are nowhere to be found in and Wikipedia takes the function of original research. This is prevalent throughout the article, from the very first sentence, which is also only partially supported by the sources. Which are also redundant. The sources for the first sentence do not mention proxy infrastructure in any shape or form.

5. Removal of valid, well-sourced non-PR information
There was a statement about hackers using this product with Bloomberg as sourced. Unexplained removal of valid, well-sourced non-PR information.

6. Misrepresentation and promotional tone
Example. "Zdnet's reviewer David Gewirtz named Oxylabs.io the best web-scraper on the market.[34]” Provided source is a sales affiliate. It even has a promotional code in the article – OXYLABS50 for 50% discount.

Visitor LT (talk) 09:48, 14 August 2025 (UTC)Reply