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I had signed up with Anonymous Proxies as an affiliate and have referred a friend who wanted a large number of proxies. The site first explained that they had a 30 day wait after the sale and after that refuses to pay out saying that he suspects that I used them myself and was therefore trying...

I seem to get captchas with public proxies... I thought these were temporary. Is it possible that a proxy could be permanently black listed?

Thanks for the dope, Scritty. I had used squidproxy and have had these issues and therefore was looking to improve my strategy. I can expand to a large number of proxies but they should be reliable. I get the captcha screen for a random 20 odd IPs from my set of 100. I could replace them, but...

I am looking to scrape Google and was looking to see which proxy provider would make sense to use. Also does using a VPN instead get better results (in terms of Google blocking the scrape)?