Puppeteer and Proxies: My Most Expensive Web Scraping Mistake

Puppeteer and Proxies: My Most Expensive Web Scraping Mistake I am KazKN. I thought throwing money at Vinted would solve my scraping problems. I was completely wrong. My infrastructure bill exploded in two days. 😵 I deployed Puppeteer with premium residential proxies. I thought I was a genius. Running headless Chrome is an absolute nightmare for server memory. My server choked on massive RAM bloat. Zombie browser instances multiplied everywhere. 💥 Then the proxy bans started hitting. Cloudflare saw right through my expensive IPs. Vinted flagged my headless browsers. My terminal spit out pure failure: ❌ Error: Navigation timeout. Proxy connection refused. [Cloudflare] Access denied. IP reputation too low. I burned hundreds of dollars on residential bandwidth for absolutely nothing. It was a humiliating technical defeat. I finally gave up the fight. I deleted my heavy Puppeteer scripts. I officially surrendered. I paid for the Apify Vinted Smart Scraper instead. It handles everything. ✅