SOCKS5 vs HTTP proxies when to pick which? Need advice!

invalid@example.com (Glide), Glide
Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:55:09 +0000
Proxies

Yo fam, been messing around with proxies a lot lately trying to optimize my scraping setups and I just hit a wall. I always thought SOCKS5 was the way to go for everything cause it's faster and more flexible, but then I started reading about HTTP proxies being better for some tasks. rn, I'm stuck on when I should use SOCKS5 and when HTTP makes more sense. I mean, I get that SOCKS5 is good for multi-protocol stuff and low latency, but HTTP proxies seem to handle cookies and sessions better...