How to give a browser automation session a proxy, including authenticated proxies that Chrome will not take from a URL, in Playwright (per context), Puppeteer (page.authenticate) a…
Working proxy configuration for requests, httpx and aiohttp with the current parameter names (httpx uses proxy=, not proxies=), SOCKS5 with remote DNS, rotation via a session-ID us…
An ISP proxy is an IP registered to a consumer internet provider but hosted in a datacenter: residential reputation, datacenter speed, and a static address that never goes offline.…
HTTP/2 tunnels through any proxy because it rides on TCP inside CONNECT; HTTP/3 runs on QUIC over UDP, which HTTP proxies cannot carry and most SOCKS5 proxies do not forward. What …
Enterprise anti-bot products score every request across four layers — IP reputation, network fingerprints, browser fingerprint, and behaviour — then challenge, throttle or block. W…
TLS fingerprinting identifies the software behind an HTTPS connection from the handshake itself, before any request is sent. JA3 and JA4 hash it into a signature. Why Python script…
Why Google, Yandex, and Cloudflare show CAPTCHAs more often when you use a proxy: shared IPs with someone else's history, IP type, request rate, conflicting signals, and cookie res…
A plain-language glossary of the terms that appear in proxy dashboards, pricing pages and documentation — from ASN and backconnect to sticky session, subnet and whitelist. Each ent…
An antidetect browser gives each profile its own consistent, realistic fingerprint and storage, so several accounts on one machine look like unrelated people. It controls the brows…
Configuring a proxy takes a host, a port and usually a login. Exact steps for Firefox, Chrome, Windows 11 and macOS, the difference between system-wide and per-app proxies, authent…
Before trusting a proxy, verify five things: the IP actually changed, it is not flagged, DNS and WebRTC are not leaking your real address, speed is acceptable, and geolocation matc…
Proxies, VPNs and Tor all replace your visible IP but differ in scope, encryption, speed and who can see your traffic. A proxy is per-app with many IPs; a VPN tunnels all device tr…