Latest articles and insights about proxies, web scraping, and internet infrastructure
Learn how to connect to NBA 2K25/2K26 servers in the desired region using a proxy, buy VC at a lower price, and avoid account bans.
Want to play on the Korean server of Black Desert Online or switch between regions without restrictions? We discuss which proxies work for BDO and how to set them up correctly.
We explore which proxies can help bypass geo-blocks of online casinos, maintain anonymity, and avoid account bans — without technical knowledge.
ISP proxies combine the speed of data centers with the trust of residential IPs. We analyze when they are more advantageous than regular proxies for arbitrage, SMM, and price monitoring.
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.
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.
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.