Latest articles and insights about proxies, web scraping, and internet infrastructure
We analyze real cases where data center proxies in Dolphin Anty, AdsPower, and other anti-detects work seamlessly, and where they get detected instantly.
Data center proxies are cheaper than residential ones, but they are not suitable for all arbitration tasks. We analyze 5 scenarios where they work and 3 rules that must not be broken.
Mobile proxies are more expensive than other types, but in certain scraping tasks, they result in the lowest block rates. We discuss 5 scenarios where this is justified.
On August 25, 2026, Chrome 152 introduced navigator.cpuPerformance — a property that informs the site of the processor class with a single number from 0 to 4. This is only 2.3 bits of entropy, but it is read for free, does not change between sessions, and is checked for consistency with the number of cores, memory, and GPU. Let's analyze who is most affected by this and what to check in your profile right now.
We analyze the features of WebSocket, gRPC, and HTTP/2 proxying— which protocol to choose, how to configure a proxy server, and how to avoid common developer mistakes.
We analyze why a proxy's IP address is registered in one country while ad targeting or a marketplace sees another, and how to verify geolocation using 5 popular databases before launching a campaign.
Fraud Score is the main indicator of an IP address's "cleanliness." We analyze the acceptable threshold for social networks, marketplaces, and scraping, and how to choose a proxy with a low Fraud Score.
The IP address has no coordinates — geo is the opinion of a specific database. We analyze fresh measurements from 2026, why MaxMind, IPinfo, IP2Location, and DB-IP differ from each other, why a site behind Cloudflare sees one country while a checker sees another, and what to do when a proxy is "identified by the wrong country."
Providers often overstate the claimed size of the proxy pool. We demonstrate a working method for verification with 1000 requests, counting unique IPs, along with a ready script.
We analyze how much traffic a single profile in an anti-detect browser consumes on Facebook Ads, TikTok, Instagram, and marketplace scraping — with practical figures.