Proxies

Just did some tests with a few proxy providers and wow it's kinda nostalgic. Back in the day you could run a basic datacenter proxy with some script kiddie browser tweaks and get like 100ms latency, enough for most scraping stuff without too much hassle. Now I'm messing around with modern anti-detect setups using resi proxies and fingerprint spoofing. The numbers are kinda funny but sad - one big provider gave me like 850ms avg response time, another was around 600 but had a crazy 40% failure rate on connections during the test. imo it feels like we swapped raw speed for this endless game of cat and mouse with detection, idk if it's even worth it sometimes when simple tasks take forever.

ok so man I was so tired of people just guessing prices without any real numbers. So I checked my recent orders and figured out what I actually pay per GB for residential proxies. Most places charge like 0.10 to 0.25 bucks per GB but it totally depends on how much you buy and who you use. Did some quick math and if you go bulk, like 10 TB, some drop to 0.07 or even 0.05 per GB. Huge difference if you're scraping a lot or automating things. Added this to my proxy manager and tbh it's way easier to track costs now instead of just guessing and wasting cash. Sick of hearing 'cheap proxies are bad' when folks don't even know their real cost. If you wanna scale up seriously, get actual numbers and compare. ymmv but this was a big help for me, especially with budgeting and avoiding shady providers

Yo, so I been using static residential proxies for a while now, mainly for sneaky stuff like sneaker drops, ticket scalping, and some legit ad verification. They just work better for long-term setups, no rotation needed, and sites can't flag me as easy as with rotating ones. I got a hookup recently from this provider that's got a 30% discount if you buy in bulk, like 10k+ proxies, which is sick. Their residential proxies are legit, no IP bans after weeks of use, and they got a pretty big pool, so I can target specific areas or avoid geo restrictions without worrying about random blocks. Tbh, if you wanna go all-in on high-volume tasks that need stable IPs, static residential is the move. Oh, and their prices are pretty fair atm, I've seen some deals online but this one's actually legit and not some scam. Just don't go cheap, that's how you get caught. Hit me up if you want the provider, I got the link saved.

alright folks, just spent a few hours testing some popular proxies for sneaker bots. Spoiler: speeds are all over the place and some providers are straight up lying. You think you're getting a fast residential proxy, but nah, it's crawling slower than dial-up. And don't get me started on the latency, sometimes it's so bad I could've walked to the store and back. Makes me wonder if some of these providers are just selling glorified VPNs pretending to be legit residentials.

Need a quick answer here. I'm trying to figure out the real cost per GB for residential proxies and how to judge the value. Seems like some providers charge a lot but have better quality, others cheaper but more fragile. I don't wanna waste money on trash but also don't wanna overspend for nothing. So what's a realistic price range for good residential proxies? And is there a clear quality difference at like $3 vs $10 per GB? Just need a straight up breakdown, don't wanna waste time. Thanks.

so tbh i posted before about free vpns costing me ad spend a while back and got some replies well today im talking about free proxies again i just ran a quick test on a simple ecommerce site with like 200 free public proxies from the usual sources like i did like 6 months ago just to see if anything changed spoiler it hasn't heres the quick numbers using a basic python script with requests trying to hit the same product page 200 times one request per proxy only 3 went thru so thats like 1.5% success rate and those that did were taking around 8.7 seconds to respond which is totally useless for real automation or scraping the rest either timed out after my 10 sec limit or gave a connection error right away this isnt even about anti-detection this is just basic connectivity then i did the same thing with 200 ips from my usual residential proxy provider which costs me like 2 bucks for the data and got a 98% success rate with an average response of 1.2 seconds so yeah u can say bandwidth costs matter but if ur doing anything serious ur time and reliability matter too those free lists are scraped by everyone and blacklisted on basically every cdn and firewall instantly i keep seeing folks in different places recommending free proxies for small projects lol dont do it it will waste more hours than its worth better to just find a cheap reliable provider with pay as you go pricing even if its just for testing cause debugging why your scraper failed cause of bad proxy 147 isnt worth it ymmv but these results are pretty consistent in my tests.

man i'm losing my mind trying to decide if i should just pay for proxy apis or hunt down cheap proxy lists online. everyone's got an opinion but nobody says what actually works long-term. like yeah apis cost more but do they really save you from all the dead proxies and bad connections? or are cheap lists fine if you're careful? sometimes feels like i'm just throwing money at something that should be simple. honestly id rather spend a bit more on a reliable api with steady speed and good anti-detection, but then i see ppl bragging about these cheap lists for like 10 bucks a month. ngl ive burned through so many free or super cheap proxies it's insane. if anyone's tried both give me some real thoughts - is quality worth the extra cash or are budget options still okay for scraping and testing? i just want my stuff to run smooth without constant dead proxies or getting flagged all the time.

Been messing around with static residential proxies for a bit now and trying to understand their best use cases. Mainly I want to see if they're worth the price for certain tasks or if I should stick with rotating pools. My main goal is to scrape local data without getting banned fast but also keep costs down. From what I gather, static residential proxies are supposed to be more stable for long-term sessions since the IPs don't change often, but I wonder if that actually translates to better anti-detection or if sites are just more sophisticated now and can spot static IPs easier. Also, I noticed some providers sell these at a premium and some have mixed reviews on whether they actually work long term or get flagged after a few uses. Anyone got real-world experience with their use cases? Do they excel in any particular scenarios like targeted geo-specific scraping, social media automation, or account creation? And for the love of god, do they really stay under the radar or are they just a shiny object for noobs?

been testing both for scraping and anti-detect stuff. ipv4 proxies from providers like BrightData or Oxylabs tend to have more stable IP pools and lower block rates since they're more established. ipv6 proxies are newer, some providers like Blazing Proxies are pushing them harder, but they can be more unreliable because of limited ipv6 pools and detection issues. numbers speak, ipv4 offer around 95% success rate on most sites, ipv6 still struggles to match that in practice. if you need stability and fewer bans, go ipv4. if you want newer IPs and maybe cheaper, ipv6 can work but expect more fails. just my 2 cents based on tests, fam. choice depends on your target and budget

Everyone keeps pushing the idea that IP whitelists are the way to go for anti-detection and security but honestly I question if it's really that simple. I mean yeah, locking down with an IP whitelist sounds secure but in practice, do sites even respect it? I've seen plenty of cases where they still flag or block despite a whitelist being in place. Then again, user:pass auth is easier to implement but aren't they more vulnerable? Like if someone gets hold of your creds or the site is sophisticated enough to detect login attempts with stolen creds, it's a mess. So what's the real deal? Do you guys go full whitelist or just use user:pass? Or is there some hybrid approach that actually works without getting your proxies banned in a week? I dunno, I've always been skeptical of the "one size fits all" claim on this stuff, seems like a lot of hype around the supposedly "more secure" options.

Hey guys, so I heard some peeps are using residential proxies for ticket scalping and wanna get in on the deals. I found this one provider offering a good discount on mobile proxies but kinda curious if anyone here has tested it for scalping events. Been using datacenter proxies but they're kinda hit or miss with tickets. Wonder if the mobile proxies are more undetectable? If anyone got some legit discount codes or tips for smooth buys w/o getting flagged, hmu. Just trying to learn if this new deal is worth a shot or if I should stick to my usual setup. Thanks fam.

Yo so I posted about proxies before but man this proxy pool thing got me all messed up now. Been trying to build my own and I keep reading mixed stuff about residential, datacenter, mobile proxies and how they all play with speed. I threw some tests on a few providers and honestly I dunno if I'm just bad at reading results or what but it's confusing as hell. Some say residential are slow but legit, datacenter are fast but easy to block, mobile proxies are somewhere in the middle but harder to detect. so what's the real scoop? I tested like 3 providers yesterday, some are like 200ms ping, others under 50 but then the IPs get banned fast. Is there a way to get a pool that's fast and not easily flagged? Or do I just gotta accept that building my own means choosing what I want and sacrificing speed or stealth? I'm really trying to understand how to mix these right for scraping but it feels like trial and error at this point. Anyone got tips or even just their own speed tests they wanna share? ICYMI, I'm tryna piece together a good proxy pool w/o wasting tons of cash or time.

Alright so I'm at my wits end here. Spent the last month building a custom proxy pool for a scraping project, nothing crazy just product data. Mix of residential IPs from a couple providers and some datacenter ones for speed. Scripts are clean, using puppeteer-extra with stealth plugin, random delays, the works. But the second I run it against even a simple ecomm site, bam, instant block. Not even a captcha, just straight up connection refused or 403. My success rate is like 5%. FWIW, conv rates are zero obviously. I've checked everything. Headers are good, TLS fingerprinting should be handled. Are the IPs just cooked from the start? Do I need to warm them up somehow? Or is my whole approach wrong and I should just be buying those expensive backconnect rotators? Feels like I'm burning cash and time for nothing. Anyone else hit this wall recently? Catch you

so you think you're clever with puppeteer-extra-stealth, a fresh residential proxy, and randomized timings. spoiler: you're not. the sites i'm hitting are still throwing up captchas after like 3 requests (not even fast ones). using a major proxy provider (you know the one), running the whole anti-fingerprint shebang in a headless browser. my conv rate is basically zero. is the proxy quality sus now or is the fingerprinting stack just outdated? (asking for a friend who's tired of burning cash on this). seen some wild claims about mobile proxies fixing this but their epc is gonna be brutal

Hey guys, quick one. I've been using cheap datacenter proxies for scraping and stuff but I feel like they're getting flagged more often lately. Anyone got real experience? Are they just too obvious now or am I missing some tricks? I don't wanna spend tons but I also don't wanna get banned instantly. I'm trying to integrate with this tool called Xtool (not gonna name it lol) and it seems like some proxies work fine at first but then boom, detected. Is it just the proxy provider or is datacenter in general just too risky now? I need a fast reply cause I gotta fix this ASAP. Thanks.

So I was messing around with some cheap datacenter proxies for a new project and man I got burnt bad. Thought I'd just go for the lowest price, right? But then I kept getting flagged, cookies kept changing, fingerprinting still detecting me. It was like, I thought proxies alone were enough but nooo. Turns out, the quality matters a lot more than price. Residential proxies are premium for anti-fingerprinting but they come with a big cost. Yeah, they're expensive but they blend in better, no doubt. Datacenter proxies, especially cheap ones, are easier to spot, even if they claim to be stealth. You get what you pay for. Mobile proxies? They're kinda in between, but sometimes they work wonders for evading detection because they rotate IPs often and mimic real devices. But ymmv, some are trash too. I've seen some 'reviewed' proxy providers with hype prices, but quality? Meh. It's like a roulette. The real warning I wanna give is don't think you can just buy a bunch of random proxies for anti-fingerprinting and be safe. You need a combo - maybe legit residential + mobile rotation + some fingerprint masking. Just throwing cheap proxies in the mix won't cut it, especially for long sessions or sensitive stuff. I've lost accounts, gotten flagged, and it's not fun. It's like paying for a Ferrari and getting a roller skate. So yeah, price vs quality, don't get blinded by the cheapest options unless you wanna deal with headaches and bans. Choose wisely, test a lot, don't get lazy.

so ive been running these static residential ips from a couple providers for about a year now specifically tied to puppeteer extra with the stealth plugin and its pretty wild how stable it is for stuff you just gotta leave running. im talking like multi-hour login sessions or filling out forms across 50 pages where any hiccup means starting over. datacenter would get nuked in minutes mobile rotates too much and breaks the session. these static ones just sit there look like some dudes home internet and the target site doesnt even flinch. my setup is puppeteer extra on a vps launching the browser instance with the proxy injected at launch using the --proxy-server flag and then letting stealth plugin handle the fingerprint. key thing is i set a crazy long user agent session string so it doesnt regenerate per page and i disable any automated headless detection overrides that might cause inconsistencies. also using a specific profile directory so cookies persist exactly like a real user. the main use case nobody talks about is when you need to maintain state across dozens of actions over hours not just quick hits. stuff like monitoring a dashboard that requires auth or slowly submitting data to avoid rate limits. rotating proxies are garbage for that lol. one provider gave me the same ip for 8 months straight never changed once cost was high but saved me probably 200 hours of debugging failed sessions.

so i was testing for a client scraping project last week and got stuck on ipv4 datacenter stuff always getting flagged like every single time. then i switched to ipv6 residential from a provider i barely ever use and dude, the combo with puppeteer-extra-stealth-plugin is actually pretty crazy. like zero blocks for 24 hours straight scraping this super hard site. i think the main thing was the ipv6 pool size? way less common so maybe fingerprinting isn't as harsh? plus the stealth plugin randomizes viewport, fonts, all that junk. yeah it's still expensive per gb compared to datacenter but for long jobs where u want stability imo this is my new go-to setup. only problem is the tool side of things tho. just tossing ipv6 proxies into a regular scraper didn't do anything, had to tweak the stealth plugin settings to match the proxy type. anyone else try this combo? idk if it's just this site or a bigger trend.

Been reading here a few days after I started the whole affiliate thing, and honestly my brain is fried lol. Everyone keeps saying residential proxies are the best but they cost a ton, then datacenter ones are cheap but you get blocked all the time. Then I saw something called ISP proxies? kinda sounds like they're in the middle or somethin? Idk. Are they from real internet companies? Is that what's up? I'm super confused on where to even find them, like are there special sites or what or are they just in the normal proxy provider lists? I mainly just need them for some basic data stuff, not botting, so I don't need the crazy heavy proxies but I heard datacenter ones can get flagged quick. Anyone got cheap simple ISP proxies that aren't gonna kill my wallet?

Been messing around with both proxy APIs and static proxy lists for my scraping projects and honestly im kinda torn. On paper proxy APIs sound slick, you get real-time updates and usually cleaner proxies but do they really perform faster? I ran some speed tests over the past week on a few providers and here's what I found: API based proxies tend to have a slight edge on latency but not by much. Sometimes their speeds drop randomly which kinda defeats the purpose. On the other hand, proxy lists, especially those from popular providers, often give me more consistent speeds but they're not always as fresh or clean. I wanna know from the community, have you tested these yourself? Are APIs worth the extra cost or do proxy lists still hold up for high-speed scraping? I've seen some providers claim 1-2ms latency via API but my tests show 4-5ms most of the time. Curious if anyone's really seen a real speed boost with APIs or if it's mostly hype. Also, what about anti-detection? Do APIs make a difference there or is that a separate thing altogether? I wanna get serious about scaling but the speed bottleneck is killing my throughput. Would love to hear some legit numbers from you all.