Proxies

everyone acts like some proxies are magic bullets for anti-fingerprinting but tbh i call bullshit. yeah you want your proxies to blend in but between residential, datacenter and mobile, how much are we really saving going cheap and still expecting stealth? so many of the popular cheap "residential" ones are just glorified datacenter ips with a fancy label and people get flagged constantly. meanwhile the high-end ones cost a fortune but sometimes it's the same old stuff with a shiny wrapper. does paying double or triple for big brands even matter when a fingerprint is a fingerprint anyway? i see people throwing cash at premium thinking there's secret sauce but really it's all about mixing proxies, user agents, headers and timing. price vs quality - do we actually believe the cheapest proxies keep you hidden or is it all hype? ymmv but i think lots of folks chase that shiny proxy and forget anti-fingerprinting is more than just the proxy, it's a whole layering game. anyone actually tested cheap vs premium for anti-detection and got real results or is it just marketing?

yo ive been thinking about setting up my own proxy pool. everyone says its so easy but tbh i dont really buy it. like where do you even begin? do you just grab a bunch of residentials and throw them together hoping they work? whats the trick to keeping them alive and not getting banned? ive seen so many guides but they all seem sketch or old. has anyone actually tried this and had it go okay or did you just waste a ton of time and money? is it actually cheaper in the long run or just a total headache? for real i need honest advice not hype. anyone here done it or have tips?

ok so ive been messing with my own proxy pool for a while and keep hitting walls trying to scale it without getting banned or flagged. i have like 200 residential ips but the scraping speed just tanks after a few hours. tried rotating them with a custom python thing but results are all over the place. has anyone actually figured out reliable proxy pooling that works long term? anyone mix datacenter and residential in one pool? how do you deal with session management and how often to rotate? costs are adding up but i need something more stable. also whats the real deal with proxy freshness and ip health checks? imo most guides are either outdated or too simple, i need something thats actually proven to scale. any real world tips or setups that wont cost a fortune?

hey quick question - using geo-targeted proxies for scraping local stuff and honestly what's the best type here. residential, datacenter, mobile? tried a few providers but they all say different things and i need this done asap. trying to get into sites that are strict about location but can't get flagged. saw some tool integrations but nothing's clear, im kinda impatient tbh. anyone got real experience with providers or setups that don't set off alarms? need the fastest reliable way to get local content w/o blocks, like yesterday. if you've got tips or a quick rundown on what actually works now, let me know i gotta move fast.

Alright I gotta vent. Every time I see one of those comparison blog posts about residential proxy cost per GB I want to scream. They list 20 providers with a clean little table like it means anything. You see the $8/GB provider and think 'oh nice that's cheap'. Then you run 10GB through it and the conv rate is trash because the IPs are recycled so hard they're basically datacenter rejects painted blue. What's the real cost per successful action? That table never shows that. My last test: Provider A at $12/GB gave me 2.1% success on a shopify task. Provider B at $18/GB gave me 8.7%. So which is cheaper? The 'cheap' one cost me $5.71 per success. The 'expensive' one cost $2.07. But you'll never see that math in the pretty blog posts. They just want the affiliate click. Fwiw I'm not naming names but you know the ones. All that 'unlimited bandwidth' talk is just bait for people who don't track actual results. Sarcastic slow clap for the seo-optimized comparison industry. Pay for performance, not per gig. Numbers don't lie but people curating them do. Scraping by, literally.

ok so im tryna figure out sneaker proxies cuz i got some botting stuff set up but the proxy prices make no sense like i got this discount code from a provider for 20 off but when i check the gb usage its still higher than another provider with no discount? and some are selling 'sneaker specific' proxies that are just rebranded residential ips with a markup i think? like i used one last week for a yeezy drop and got insta flagged even tho the proxy test said low ban rate maybe im missing something about how the sites detect u? do they look at asn differently or is it more about the rotation speed? cuz my bot is set to like 2 sec delays and im using anti-detect browser but still getting cart jacked idk if anyone found a provider that actually works good without costing like 50 a gb especially with discount codes that are worth it or if im just doing something wrong.

tbh need to scrape listings from like 20 different city sites (think craigslist style). each site blocks non-local ips. my current residential pool gets me a conv rate of maybe 15% before bans kick in, which is sus. so im looking at integrating with puppeteer-stealth (or maybe undetected-chrome-driver) but need proxy API that can give me clean IPs for specific zip codes (or at least accurate city-level geo). anyone got hard data on this? like success rates and cost per successful session? tired of vague answers.

hey guys been messing with proxies for a bit and lately i'm thinking of building my own pool instead of using providers. but tbh i'm kinda lost. like i get the basics - get residentials, datacenter, mobile ones and rotate them right? but checking all those speed tests and reviews online just confuses me. some say residentials are slow as hell but safe, others say datacenter is faster but risky. and mobile proxies? idk if they're even worth it or if you can find decent ones for a diy setup

ok so follow up from my old thread - i tried that python script for rotating residentials. everyone here says rotating is better than static for scraping but honestly after testing, im not fully convinced. like the bans are just slower not gone. used a popular provider, script logs in fresh session each time thru a new ip, random delays, real browser headers via requests lib. still got soft-blocked after like 2k requests on a basic ecom site. maybe its just that site but i feel like the whole 'rotate = safe' thing is overhyped. if the site checks fingerprint or behavior patterns ur ip pool wont matter. i can share the code snippet later but basically it pulls ips from an api endpoint and cycles them via requests.Session adapter. still hits blocks. i wanna hear if anyone else runs into this? maybe my cr sucks cuz im missing some other signal they track. or do u think datacenter proxies with better anti-detect setup would actually outperform cheap rotating resis? been seeing some wild debates lately.

Man, remember the old days when just rotating proxies was kinda a pain but also kinda fun? Now it's like a whole science. I wanna set up a simple proxy rotation script with Python but I keep running into issues with scraping and getting flagged. Used to be just throw in some proxies and go, but now it feels way more complex. Wondering if anyone still does it the old way or if the new stuff like proxy pools or API integrations are the only way. Anyone got a quick setup guide or some tips? Miss the simpler times when you just used free proxies and hoped for the best, now it's all about anti-detection and rotating every request. Just wanna get my scraper running smooth without drowning in captcha hell. Would be cool to hear what ya guys are doing these days or if there's some old school tricks still workin.

man i gotta say back in the day backconnect proxies were just the thing right no fuss no hassle just spin up a bunch of ips and go. remember setting up my first batch felt like i was some hacker or smth all sneaky and stealthy. speed was decent not perfect but good enough for scraping and sneaky ops. now lol its a whole different ball game. everything's more complicated providers throwing in layers of anti-detection speed tests are like rollercoasters. i still remember when you could just grab a proxy and know youd get decent speeds no lag no stutters. these days i run tests and its like my proxies are on dial-up mode. data centers got smarter residential proxies cost more mobile proxies man theyre a whole other beast. swear some providers promise blazing fast but i end up with ping spikes like its 1999. kinda nostalgic but also frustrating as hell. i mean i get it the games evolved but sometimes i miss the simplicity yknow? just some decent proxies a little rotation and i was golden. now gotta juggle anti-detection speed and cost like im in a circus. anyone else feel the same or is it just me chasing the ghost of proxies past

yeah i posted a while ago about anti-detect stuff. everyone keeps giving the same crappy advice like "just rotate proxies bro" lol. sites aint just checking IPs anymore they look at the whole setup like browser signals, canvas, webrtc, even your timezone drift. if your proxy is clean but your fingerprint is trash youll still get flagged. so whats the real combo that actually works after all the 2025 updates? residential plus antidetect browser? mobile proxies? i need real numbers on block rates not just guesses or theories.

ugh i need to vent real quick. been losing my mind trying to find rotation proxies that actually work for long scrapes. tried everything spent so much on "premium" residential ones and they just die or get blocked after like an hour. so much time wasted on ip bans and redoing configs its insane. yesterday found this new proxy provider and i figured it was another scam but i hooked it up to my tool and wow. no joke the rotation is smooth speeds are okay and zero bans for 6 hours straight. best part it works with puppeteer and i dont have to watch it constantly just set it and forget it. feels like i finally got the secret to scraping without getting banned every two seconds. anyone else have a good setup like this or am i just gonna keep wasting cash on providers hoping one works lol

So I got these proxies, right? Mostly residential and some datacenter stuff cause I heard it's good for scraping without getting banned. Thought hey, why not try to automate the whole thing with Python? Makes sense, right? But lol, turns out setting up a rotation system is like trying to assemble Ikea furniture without the instructions. I keep hitting issues with IP leaks, session hangups, and those proxies just dropping out randomly. I tried using requests and selenium, even some cheap proxy libraries but nothing's smooth. Sometimes it works, then next time I get blocked or captcha'd like I'm some spammer. Anyone got a solid way or script snippets that actually work? I want this to be simple but reliable, not some janky nightmare. Also, do I need to worry about proxy types, like should I mix mobile proxies in or stick with residential? Ugh, so confused and annoyed but still curious if anyone's cracked the code. Lol, this stuff is a mess sometimes.

alright so I've been tinkering with proxies for a while and lately I keep seeing people talk about IPv4 and IPv6 proxies like they're some kinda magic. Honestly, they're not that different on the surface but the main thing is IPv6 is like the new kid on the block and most providers still give out IPv4 because well, it's what everyone's used to and basically running out of those addresses fast. If you're scraping or doing stuff that needs a lot of IPs, IPv6 can be a huge win because the pool is massive and kinda easier to rotate w/o raising flags but the catch is not all sites support IPv6 yet and some anti-scraping measures are still on IPv4. So my tip is don't just jump on IPv6 blindly, check if the target site supports it and test both if you can. ymmv but in my experience, having both options is pretty legit, especially if you wanna stay undetected or just wanna future-proof your setup a bit.

I just got cooked on the last few releases and I'm pretty sure my proxies were a big part of it. I was running with a mix of some datacenter IPs from a budget provider and residentials from a reseller I found on another forum, total cost for the month was around $450 between them. The datacenters were getting insta-filtered after like 10 requests during high traffic periods, completely useless. The residentials had better success rates but still ended up with maybe 15% checkout success across my tasks when things got heavy. Burned about two grand in pre-auths that never went through. What's the actual setup people are using now? I see all these proxy sites advertising 'sneaker optimized' networks but the pricing is all over the place, like $30 per GB from one place and then $5 per GB from another for supposedly similar geo-targeting. Are you guys just biting the bullet and paying for premium ISP proxies or are certain residential pools still holding up? Need real numbers on bandwidth usage per task and ban rates during peak drop windows. My current bot setup is solid so I know it's not that. Just trying to figure out if there's a provider that consistently delivers sub-second response times without getting flagged as soon as footsites or shopify firewalls ramp up. Seen some talk about mobile proxies being more resilient but the costs seem astronomical for the data limits.

man, just had a bad run with some proxies for automating social media stuff. Bought a bunch of residentials, paid like 3 bucks each, thinking they'd be gold for scraping and automating, but wow, got blocked like crazy. Ran a campaign for 2 days and lost almost 200 bucks cause the accounts got flagged, all cuz the proxies just weren't good enough. Some of the cheap resis looked legit but turned out to be super slow and flagged within hours. Tried datacenter ones too, cheaper but more stable, but they got banned way faster than I expected. Mobile proxies sounded promising but also pricey, and honestly, no difference really. It's like, I spend all this cash and get nothing but headaches. My last batch was around 30 bucks a pop, and most of them were junk. Does anyone have legit recs? Or should I just stick to scraping with cheap proxies and accept the risk? Lowkey, I think I need a serious upgrade but the prices make me wanna cry.

been digging into proxy options for sneaker bots and honestly the choices are kinda overwhelming. residential proxies seem to be the safest but they slow down speed and cost a lot. datacenter proxies are cheap but super easy to detect, so not ideal for high-traffic releases. mobile proxies? lowkey tempting for anti-detection but the pools are sketchy sometimes. I've seen some providers claim they got the perfect combo of speed and stealth, but reviews are all over the place. curious if anyone's cracked the code lately or got solid provider recs that actually work for sneaker drops? what are y'all using and why?

Bruh, I've been trying to use this residential proxy for ticket scalping and it's a nightmare right now. Speed tests are all over the place, some days it's decent, then it tanks to like 50ms ping and 1mbps. I'm losing my mind cause I need stable, fast connections and this thing is just flaky. Tried a few providers, but no real difference. It's like they advertise lightning fast but I get stuck waiting for pages to load or connections just drop mid-buy. Anyone else dealing with this? Or is it just my luck? Need some legit advice cause I'm about to throw in the towel and switch to datacenter but I don't wanna get blocked or flagged. Ugh, this isn't how it's supposed to work, I swear proxies should be reliable for this kinda stuff.

so ive been messing with proxy rotation for a bit and finally got a decent setup going. im using python and requests with residential proxies, the trick is rotating them smooth. i keep a pool and grab a new one every few requests so i dont get spotted. also toss in some random headers and a delay between calls to seem legit. for more stealth i switch user agents and sometimes swap ips mid session if blocks get bad. its not that complicated but this setup lets me scrape a ton without bans. anyone have scripts or tips for fast proxy rotation that doesnt slow things to a crawl?