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On July 1, 2026, age verification in social networks came into effect in Nebraska — another link in the chain of laws fracturing the internet. Following each such date, there is a surge in demand for VPNs and proxies (up to +1400%), and Utah is already targeting the very circumvention tools. Let's analyze what this means for geo-access and privacy.

On July 1, 2026, Cloudflare designated AI agents as a separate category of bots and from September 15, it blocks them on advertising pages. Amazon has already won a lawsuit against Perplexity Comet. Let's analyze what the agent web is, how sites detect autonomous browsers, and why without residential and mobile proxies, AI assistants increasingly hit a wall.

On July 2-3, 2026, the FBI, the IRS, and the Google Threat Intelligence Group dismantled NetNut — one of the largest residential proxy networks, which turned out to be the Popa botnet consisting of 2 million hacked Smart TVs and TV boxes. Over the course of a week, 316 groups operated through it. Let's analyze how it works and how to distinguish a legitimate residential proxy from a criminal one.

RESIDENTIAL IP is already not enough: in 2026, the largest anti-bot systems will recognize a bot by the TLS handshake even before the first byte of HTML. We analyze the transition from JA3 to JA4+, the post-quantum TLS trap, HTTP/2 fingerprinting — and what really works for scraping now.

Learn how proxies can help you get Xbox Game Pass cheaper and access regional games in Cloud Gaming – a step-by-step guide without technical complexities.

Want to catch regional Pokémon or participate in events unavailable in your region? We explain how location spoofing works in Pokémon GO and what proxies are needed for it.

YouTube Music geo-blocks restrict access to millions of tracks based on your country. We explain how to bypass these restrictions using proxies to access the full music library.

Cloudflare announced: starting from September 15, 2026, "mixed" AI crawlers will be blocked by default on advertising sites, and Pay Per Crawl turns access to content into a paid service. Let's analyze what is behind numbers like 73,000:1 and why data collection increasingly relies on the quality of proxies.

Living in a country where OpenAI is blocked? We explain how to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus via a proxy — step by step, without technical knowledge.

Confused about proxy types? We explain the difference between HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 in simple terms—without code and complex jargon, with specific examples for arbitrage, SMM, and marketplaces.