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Lucky Orange Pricing Review: Is The Price Worth It?

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  Running a successful website without web analytics software is nearly impossible today. That's why most analytic tools are offering heatmaps to gain insights on how to increase their conversions.  Lucky Orange is no exception, as it comes into play with dynamic heatmaps for its users. It’s a preferred tool by UX designers and product managers, as they subscribe to different versions of its product. But looking for something in the budget? Lucky Orange is a great platform but I feel there are so many areas where luckyorange lacks where other brands make up really well. So, let’s look at Lucky Orange's pricing model and what it offers. I recommend reading this review to inspire you to decide whether it’s worth the price or not. Lucky Orange Lucky Orange  is an all-in-one conversion optimization suite that helps you understand your visitors' behavior. Thus, by choosing to use it, you can optimise your customers' journeys—including future interactions and general website ...

Node Unblocker for Web Scraping

  We all hate the moments when we try to access a page and the site blocks our request for no good reason. Geoblocking, for example, can be passed only by using a proxy.  Node-unblocker  helps us to create a custom proxy and have it up and running in a matter of minutes. What is Node-Unblocker? Node unblocker is a general-purpose library to create a web proxy, intercept and alter requests and responses.  This library is also used in web scraping for bypassing restrictions implemented by the site like geo-blocking, hiding the IP address and rate limiting, or for sending authentication tokens.  To make it shorter, while using this library, you can kiss blocked and censored content goodbye. In this article, we create an Express application with a custom proxy using Node Unblocker, we add a middleware that changes the user agent for each request, discuss the proxy limitations, deploy it to Heroku and compare it to a managed service like  WebScrapingAPI . Prereq...

Introducing Redactable - Redaction software that really works

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  Employees of law firms, legal departments, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and the public sector often need to collaborate internally on documents that will be sent to outside parties, such as clients, and other companies. To avoid disseminating confidential data and others' personal information, it's necessary to properly redact PDFs and other file types to ensure that sensitive data does not land in unwanted hands. ‍ Permanent redaction is important - and if performed incorrectly can lead to a leak of confidential information and consequences such as fines, lawsuits, scandals, and loss of customer trust. To avoid the mess that can be created by failed redactions, you need to ensure that your documents are redacted permanently and that the redaction software you are using really works. ‍ Of course, professionals tasked with redaction are doing their best with the tools at their disposal. However, many of the common practices for redaction are leaving organ...