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…
Bypassing TLS/JA3 fingerprinting with curl_cffi
Clean residential IP but still blocked? The target is fingerprinting your TLS handshake. How to impersonate a real browser with curl_cffi…
JA3 and JA4 TLS fingerprinting explained
Your TLS handshake carries a fingerprint anti-bots read before the page loads. What JA3 and JA4 are, why libraries get flagged, and how to present a browser-accurate one…
How to get past Akamai Bot Manager
Akamai scores you silently on IP reputation, TLS fingerprint, and the _abck sensor cookie. Why an HTTP script fails all three, and the residential IP + real browser setup that clears it…
Cloudflare Turnstile explained
Turnstile issues a token only a real browser can earn - no puzzle to solve. Why raw HTTP and fingerprint tricks cannot pass it, and the real-browser-through-a-residential-proxy path that does…
Stable ChatGPT access with a residential proxy
ChatGPT logging you out or flagging "unusual activity"? The exit IP is usually the cause. Route your browser through a clean residential IP for a stable, trusted session…
Using residential proxies with browser-use (AI agents)
An AI agent that browses the web hits the same anti-bot walls as any scraper. Route browser-use through a residential proxy…
How to get past Cloudflare when web scraping
Cloudflare blocks scrapers in three layers — IP reputation, TLS fingerprint, JS challenge. Which one is stopping you, and the right fix for each…
Using a proxy with Playwright and Puppeteer
Set a residential proxy in Playwright and Puppeteer — launch options, authentication, and per-context proxies for one IP per identity…
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…
Connected but not working
The IP changed but sites still time out. Symptom-by-symptom fixes for DNS leaking outside the tunnel, wrong proxy type, and billed-but-unusable traffic…
Antidetect browser proxy not working
GoLogin, AdsPower and Multilogin all report proxy failures the same unhelpful way. Read the real code first: 407 is credentials, 402 is balance, a timeout is usually their test URL…
Residential proxy FAQ
Straight answers on static IP exclusivity, renewals, region coverage, billing and protocols — the questions customers actually ask before buying…