Recent content by O2CO

Most bans I've seen blamed on "bad IPs" are really behavior or fingerprint stuff. If you're rotating on every request but the site expects a session (login, cart, anything with cookies), the IP changing mid-session is itself a red flag, so use sticky sessions for that kind of flow and only...

The green light in most antidetect browsers only means it could open a connection to the proxy, it doesn't prove traffic actually goes through. So I'd test outside the browser first. Run curl with the -x flag (user:pass@host:port) against any IP echo page from your terminal, and if that works...

Speed isn't the problem, 150/150 is plenty. "Connected but no network" almost always means the proxy itself isn't accepting the request. Most common causes imo: wrong port or host, you picked a SOCKS5 endpoint but iOS only does HTTP in that setting, or the Authentication toggle is off/user and...

Truly free residential IPs basically don't exist. Residential bandwidth costs money because it comes from real people's connections, so when something is free, you're usually the product. The "free residential" stuff is either random home devices that got infected, or it's an app/SDK that...

Something that gets missed is that some targets slow you down on purpose instead of blocking you. You get 200s but with several seconds of delay, so it looks exactly like a bad proxy. Easy way to tell is to hit a neutral endpoint through the same proxy at the same time, if that's fast and the...

One thing nobody mentioned, the built in iOS proxy setting is per wifi network (Settings, Wi-Fi, the i next to the network, Configure Proxy). It only does HTTP/HTTPS, so no SOCKS5, and it does nothing at all when you're on mobile data. Some apps also ignore the system proxy completely, so you...

Worth separating two things here. Proxies don't solve captchas, they just decide how many you get shown and how hard the score looks. Clean residential or ISP IPs with a realistic browser fingerprint will trigger far fewer recaptchas than datacenter ranges, so that part is what everyone above...

Thanks all. V, the biggest change I've seen is that the IP alone isn't enough anymore. Targets check TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprints, so a plain python requests client gets flagged even on a clean residential IP. Most people either run a real browser (playwright with some stealth patching) or use an...

I think what Invictus means is run the proxy against the thing you actually care about and watch the numbers, not a score from some site. Send a few hundred requests to your real target (or something close to it) and track success rate, how many captchas/403s/429s you get, and median plus p95...

Hey all, I've been lurking for a bit and finally made an account. My day job is around proxy infrastructure and web scraping, so mostly rotation, session handling, blocks and retries, that kind of thing. Here to learn how people actually use proxies in the wild and to answer what I can in the...