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Proxy knowledge base

Plain-English guides to residential proxies, datacenter proxies, rotation, avoiding blocks and choosing a provider — for people doing scraping, multi-accounting and automation. Bilingual EN/中文.

What is a residential proxy?

A residential proxy routes your traffic through a real home-broadband IP so websites see an ordinary user, not a server. Learn…

Residential vs datacenter proxies

Residential proxies use real home IPs and pass anti-bot checks; datacenter proxies are faster and cheaper but easily blocked. A…

How to avoid getting blocked while web scraping

Blocked scrapers usually share a few mistakes: datacenter IPs, no rotation, robotic request patterns. A practical checklist —…

HTTP vs SOCKS5 proxy

HTTP proxies understand web traffic and can inspect it; SOCKS5 proxies move any TCP/UDP traffic blindly and flexibly. When to use…

What are rotating proxies?

Rotating proxies give you a different IP on a schedule — per request or per session — to spread traffic and avoid blocks. Learn…

How to choose a proxy provider

Cutting through proxy marketing: the seven things that actually matter — IP quality, pricing model, geo coverage, session…

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