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In the summer of 2026, Britain is moving from age checks to a ban on VPNs themselves: a ban on social media for children under 16 has been announced, Digital ID and age-gating are being discussed, and the European Commission calls VPNs a "loophole that needs to be closed." We analyze why commercial VPNs are the first to be targeted, what cannot be avoided in principle, and which privacy infrastructure is truly facing a new wave of blockages.

📅 July 9, 2026
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Cloudflare, Google, Amazon, Akamai, and OpenAI have gathered around Web Bot Auth: automatic traffic is now verified not by IP and User-Agent, but by cryptographic signature (RFC 9421, Ed25519). Google is already testing it, and IETF is preparing the standard for August 2026. Let's analyze how the mechanism of signed agents works and why this makes high-quality residential and mobile proxies even more important for independent scrapers.

📅 July 8, 2026
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On June 12, 2026, Cybernews researchers found an unprotected server with 8.3 TB containing 24 billion stolen accounts. We analyze what’s inside, how account substitution works through residential and mobile proxies, and why the shadow market for stolen passwords even impacts legal web scraping and multi-accounting.

📅 July 7, 2026
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