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Thats not how it works. In order to be google passed, it MUST already be anonymous. Think that thru, if you had a google passed proxy that wasn't anonymous it would show your IP which would be pointless. So you would have to first know if it was anoymouns before you even tested for google. Else if you try google first and test 4000 proxies to see if they pass google, and THEN test the ones that are google passed for anonymousness (don't think thats a word, lol) and you find 1000 are anonymous, that means you made 3000 requests to google from your own IP.A quick proxy question...
I understand the need for proxies, and that if I'm going to scrape Google, I need Google-passed proxies. If I'm using PIA (Private Internet Access, a VPN), do I need to have anonymous proxies? Apparently in the Automator plugin, I can discard proxies which do not pass the Google test, without testing whether the proxy is anonymous or not.
I could harvest a lot more proxies if I kept ones that pass the Google test - whether they're autonomous or not (since I'm behind a VPN). Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Which means your IP was blocked by google a long time ago. Plus there are other issues.
So scrapebox must first test for anonymity before it tests against google. So google passed proxies are anonymous by default due to this.
Further, you could just shut down your VPN for proxy testing, or if that is not an option then it is what it is.