Proxies

Been running some tests with datacenter proxies lately. Got a list from a provider that offers 10k IPs for around $50. Speed is solid, like 200-300ms ping, no issues there. But then I checked detection rates on a few target sites. Results? Around 70% of the proxies get flagged prettyyy quick. The others stay under the radar but with a risk of being flagged later. Tried different IP ranges, some from residential pools, some from cloud providers, but the detection still hovers around that 70% mark. Data shows that even with low-cost proxies, detection isn't rare. For scraping or automation, cheap datacenter proxies might save cash but they come with a high chance of being blocked or flagged. Anyone got better success with cheaper pools or tricks to beat detection? Curious about what others are seeing on the detection front.

hey so i'm new to this affiliate thing and wanna scrape google for keywords but proxies are confusing. got some cheap datacenter ones from a random site, paid $20 for 100 IPs. they were cheap sure but kept getting flagged after like 50 searches tops. then i switched to residential from a fancy provider, cost me about $150 for 50 IPs and i could blast through 200 searches no problem. the difference is wild but the price jump is insane too. i see people talking mobile proxies or other niche stuff but tbh idw spend a ton right now. just want decent scraping without constant bans. anyone found a good middle ground between cost and quality, especially for SEO tools? ymmv but i feel like with google you gotta pay more for steady results. would be awesome if someone knows a provider that's not crazy expensive but can handle maybe 300-400 queries a day reliably. thanks

so ok so my custom rotating setup is getting screwed by target sites this week. script hits a new ip from the pool, random user agent, some basic header spoofing, decent delays between requests and bam. hit like 50-60 requests and the whole chain turns into a captcha farm. this worked fine for months so idk maybe they changed something or my config's just old. smh. using a mix of residential proxies from two mid-tier providers and i got the rotation logic in python with requests session + adapter thing. the ips themselves aren't really burned - it's more like they see the rotation pattern and just blanket flag the whole subnet or whatever. anyone else run into this lately? need to know if i'm fighting an arms race i can't win or if i missed some fingerprinting thing. ymmv but drop some numbers if u got em.

Looking for specific examples of what static residential proxies can do for me. I tested them last month, got like 50k pages scraped without ban, but then my IP got flagged after a week. Anyone got results like that? How long do they usually last before bans? Need quick numbers, don't wanna waste more time

Been messing with proxy rotation stuff lately. For residential ones paying like 5-7 bucks per GB was okay-ish but the quality is totally hit or miss. Some give me maybe 10-15% captcha others are up at 30-40%. Datacenter proxies cheap like 1-2 bucks per IP but they get blocked so fast after barely 50 requests. Mobile proxies ugh so expensive but yeah way less detectable i guess. I tested like 20 providers cheapest mobile was $20 for a GB and it was garbage honestly. If you want captcha under 10% gotta shell out at least $10 per GB for residentials prob. Anyone else testing this? Would love some real numbers on what people actually pay and what success rate they get tbh

man remembering how it used to be with proxies, remember when residential was king and everything felt so legit? now its all about balance, cheap datacenter stuff works but you get flagged quick. found this new deal on mobile proxies tho, thought of those old days of just running legit accounts, no hassle. if you wanna keep it simple for automation and avoid bans, check out this provider, they got discounts right now. honestly, kinda nostalgic how far proxies have come, but the struggle for good quality, cheap proxies still the same. dont sleep on mobile proxies, they still fly under the radar better than residential sometimes. if you used to pay a fortune for decent proxies, this one might just bring back the old vibe, cheap and reliable. anyway, just sharing the find, might help someone out, peace out and keep grinding.

so I posted about proxies for social media automation before and yeah I thought I found a sweet deal but turns out not so much. Just saw a promo from this provider offering residential proxies at like 50% off but trust me it's a trap. I've been using them for a couple weeks now and the IPs keep getting flagged or worse, banned after a few days. Seems legit on the surface but the quality is total crap. If you're planning to run serious automation, steer clear. Just a heads up before you fall for the discount hype, always check user reviews and test small first. ymmv but this one's a warning shot.

ok so everyone's always talking up rotating proxies like they're the best thing ever for scraping but honestly how much of that is real? i tried a couple and some just seem sketchy or super slow. they say its all stealthy and you wont get banned but then i get blocked instantly lol. also the prices are wild, are they even better than sticky proxies? feels like some places just sell cheap ip pools and thats it. has anyone actually used these for a while and gotten good results? or is it just hype so they can charge more

been testing a few providers for residential proxies and honestly it's like shopping for a luxury car but ending up with a bicycle. some charge 2$ a GB and perform like they're on a budget, others ask 10$ a GB and barely justify it. just tried provider X, paid 3$ a GB, got about 70-80% success rate on sites that usually block everything. provider Y charges 8$ a GB, got near 100% success but the speed is meh, like dial-up era. it's a total game of which sacrifices you're willing to make. curious if anyone has real numbers or recent experiences that actually compare quality, uptime, speed, and cost without the marketing fluff. seems like everyone's just guessing these days.

tested both for a few weeks. grabbed 100k requests with provider A's proxy api and 100k from provider B's proxy list. api avg cpm was like 2.8, bounce rate 15%. the list? same load but cpm fell to 1.9 and bounce shot up to 30%. why? api proxies are cleaner - less ip churn, less detection. list ones are more raw, often stale, more bans, more retries. data's clear tbh. if you want stability and speed go api. if you're just messing around or cheap? lists can work but expect slowdowns and bans. watch out for providers selling cheap lists with no freshness guarantee, i had one that got blocked in a day. api guys charge like 0.01 per request, list sellers do 1k ips for $20 but half are dead or flagged. imo if your budget's ok go api - saves time and headaches. but if you're starting out test both, keep an eye on bounce rate, and decide based on your sites and workload

so i posted about proxy pools before, but honestly been diving deeper lately and wanted to break down what ive found so far without the fluff. i tried combining residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies from different providers and honestly the results are kinda all over the place. some cheap residential proxies from one provider get me banned super quick on some sites but hold up well on others. datacenter proxies are cheap and fast but super obvious so they get flagged instantly unless i rotate them super frequently. mobile proxies? they seem promising but damn they're costly and sometimes still get caught especially on anti-bot measures. i built my own pool with a mix of a few providers but the key seems to be rotation frequency and fingerprint masking. some providers give you a ton of IPs but their rotators are slow or unreliable so i end up with IP leaks or detection. others have solid API setups but the proxies are low quality. imho, you gotta test each provider for your use case and don't just buy blindly, especially if scraping or anti-detection is your goal. also, adding in some custom user-agent and fingerprint spoofing seems to boost success rate but that's a whole other rabbit hole. anyone here actually built a real scalable pool that works across different use cases? i mean not just buy cheap proxies but really dialed in their setup?

so after my last post about scaling i figured id tighten my geo-targeting, get better localized content for a project. saw a thread somewhere with a 'deal' for geo-targeted residentials, price was too good to be true but i was tired of paying like $15 per gb for solid ips. vendor promised city-level targeting for like 5 bucks a gig. set it up for a news aggregation scrape across 3 european cities. first 100 requests were golden, ips looked local, response times decent. then the cr started dropping hard. like from 90% success to maybe 40% after a few hours. checked the logs. the ips were supposedly from frankfurt but half the requests were getting routed through datacenters in freaking miami. the geo-db lookup i run on the side confirmed it. they were selling me a backconnect pool with bad routing labels. wasted a day's work and the data is useless cause the localized ads and content are all wrong. moral of the story? if a geo-proxy deal seems cheap, they're prob just slapping a location tag on a random ip pool and calling it a day. ask for a small test batch first. always verify with an external api like ipinfo or maxmind on a sample of the ips. i learned the hard way again. anyone else got burned on a 'localized' proxy promise lately?

ran a scrape test last week with cheap DC proxies ($1/gb from that popular vendor) vs basic residential (like $10/gb). dc got blocked after 2.5k requests avg, residential made it to 17k before captcha hell. epc diff was brutal - dc: $0.03 conv, resi: $0.12. so the 'cheap but detectable' thing feels extreme now (google especially). anyone else seeing DC success rates drop like this recently? kinda sus.

man so i was digging into residential proxy prices and man, some providers are just playing games with cost per GB. like yeah u see 10 bucks a month but then u hit the data cap or pay crazy extra fees. and if u do the math, some of these guys are charging like 3-4 bucks per GB which is insane for residential proxies. fwiw i had a bad experience with one that promised unlimited data but then throttled me hard once i hit a certain point. u gotta be super careful. check the fine print, ask for real usage cases, not just the sticker price. some providers just mark up the price and say 'oh, it's premium' but end up being junk or overhyped. don't get blinded by cheap monthly rates, look at the actual cost per GB. and don't trust the ones that don't offer transparent breakdowns or user reviews. i've seen a few legit ones but they're rare and worth paying for if u wanna avoid headaches. this game's all about avoiding overpriced junk and finding real value.

been using some cheap datacenter proxies for quick scraping and tbh they're fast but sites keep flagging me. like the speed is fine but I always get blocked or hit with captcha after a bit. is it just me or are these budget proxies just more detectable? i run them thru checker tools and they come back as legit but I still get the

yo i asked about this before but need a fresh take. been using residential and datacenter proxies but now i'm eyeing ISP ones. they're supposed to be stealthier but i need actual numbers not just talk. some companies swear their ISP proxies hit like 85% success against anti-bot stuff but others are barely scraping 60%. checked out a few like ProxyRack and Bright Data they both claim reliability but the pricing and speeds are all over the place. some mention 100-150 ms ping and okay uptime but then you hear they choke when things get busy. anyone run tests recently? what's your real world experience with ISP vs residential or datacenter? looking for a decent mix of speed stability and not getting flagged. hit me with the facts gotta decide quick.

yo guys so I posted about this before but now I really wanna get serious. I'm trying to do ad verification for a bunch of different markets and honestly it's a pain with the proxies I got. Some drop out, some get flagged quick, and I need ones that are pretty stealthy but still fast enough to handle multiple checks. I was using some cheap datacenter proxies but they just ain't cutting it anymore. Anyone got solid recs for residential or maybe some mobile proxies that can handle this kinda stuff w/o raising flags? Also, if anyone's got experience with certain providers that won't rip me off or give me fake proxies, lemme know. Just want my checks to go smooth without getting blocked or flagged as suspicious. Thanks in advance, appreciate the help lol

Yo guys just found out that using residential proxies for ad verification totally works like magic. Tried a bunch of datacenter and mobile proxies before but they got flagged or blocked fast. These residentials though, seem legit, they mimic real users so ads don't bounce. The best part? I finally got some consistent results and no more suspect flags. Been scraping ad networks and doing some quick checks, and it's like a whole new world. Anyone else using these for legit ad checks? Tips or proxy providers you trust? Feels like I cracked a code or somethin.

tbh been testing a few residential proxies lately and trying to figure out the real cost per GB. some providers say they're cheap but then I see hidden fees or they throttle bandwidth. I ran speed tests on a few and here's what I got: provider A gives me about 1.2 MB/sec on average and it costs 50 bucks for 10 GB, so about 5 bucks per GB. provider B is a bit slower but costs only 3 bucks per GB, with speeds around 0.8 MB/sec. question is, am I better off with a slightly cheaper provider with slower speeds or paying more for faster proxies? I wanna make sure I'm not overpaying but also not sacrificing too much speed for scraping or anti-detection stuff. anyone done real cost/benefit breakdowns here?

ok so i posted about proxies maybe a year ago right stuck with all the basic ones everyone talks about. anywaaay i finally found something that actually works for my scraping stuff which is wild cause i was so done with proxies that ban instantly or are just way too slow not worth the trouble at all. ended up testing brightdata smartproxy oxylabs again just checking if things improved tbh its totally different now? thought i'd get the same old runaround but brightdata really got their residential ips sorted pools are legit dont die immediately. smartproxy was surprisingly good way cheaper than i thought too oxylabs yeah still crazy expensive but for specific jobs where you need stealth its worth it if you're trying to scrape properly w/o getting caught. so yeah anyone have recent experience here any new favorites? im pumped messing with these more would love some new recs though or heads up if someone got burned recently