How this stuff actually works.
How proxy providers inflate your usage, and how to catch them
The three ways a cheap proxy provider quietly bills you for more traffic than it delivered, and a ten-minute test that shows whether yours is doing it.
Read the guide →Residential vs datacenter: stop buying the expensive one
Most people reach for residential proxies when datacenter would have worked for a third of the price. How to tell which one a target actually needs.
Read →Your first scraper with Python and rotating proxies
A working scraper in about forty lines: requests, rotating proxies, retries that do not hammer the target, and a byte counter so you see what you spend.
Read →Not getting blocked: the boring checklist that works
Before you buy more expensive proxies, fix your headers, your pacing and your TLS fingerprint. Most blocks are the client, not the IP.
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