The HProxy Blog

The English 'best Chinese proxy' roundups name only Western brands and zero real Chinese operators. Here is who actually runs China's proxy industry.

A field guide to dead free proxy sites: the lists and checkers that stopped working, why they keep dying, and how to spot a dead source before you use it.

DePIN proxy tokens like Grass and Nodepay are residential proxy networks with a crypto wrapper. The real funding, the token crashes, and what you actually sell.

How to tell if your proxy provider just resells a bigger pool: shared gateways, identical pool sizes, WHOIS and ASN overlap, and rebrand chains.

A free UK proxy list gives you a live British IP for geo checks. Which free UK proxies actually work, their honest reliability, and when to go paid.

A free USA proxy list gives you a live US IP for geo checks and testing. Which free US proxies actually work, their honest reliability, and when to go paid.

Google's 2026 takedown named 13 proxy brands under IPIDEA: 922Proxy, PIA S5, IP2World and more, built on hijacked home devices. What it means for buyers.

How to use proxies with Playwright: per-context proxy config, the credentials-in-URL trap, rotation with sticky sessions, and verifying your real exit IP.

How to use proxies with Scrapy: HttpProxyMiddleware, per-request meta proxy, a rotating-proxy middleware with retries, and the proxy auth stale-header trap.

IPIDEA runs IP2World, PIA S5 Proxy and a dozen storefronts on one pool through Hong Kong shells. Here is the shared infrastructure and how it was built.

NordVPN and Surfshark merged on February 2, 2022 under one Dutch holding company, Cyberspace B.V. Here is the sourced proof, and what it means for buyers.

Researchers tied two dozen 'independent' mobile proxy brands to one Belarusian software stack, ProxySmart. Here is the map and what it means when you buy.

Proxies for Airbnb: why the invite-only API pushes you to scraping, and which residential setup reads geo-priced listings and reviews at scale.

Proxies for Facebook Marketplace let you list as a local seller in any city and run multiple accounts without Facebook linking them by IP. The honest setup.

Proxies for OnlyFans give a creator and their management team one consistent login IP, so logins from many countries do not lock the account. The honest setup.

Proxies for Pokemon TCG give each account a clean IP for Pokemon Center restocks. Which type fits the Queue-it waiting room, how many you need, and the limits.

Proxies for Pop Mart give each account a clean IP for Labubu blind-box drops. Which type survives the online queue, how many you need, and what a proxy cannot fix.

Proxies for Steam: which type fits Community Market scraping and account safety, how the region lock works, and why no IP lifts a VAC ban.

Proxies for WhatsApp: why the phone number outranks the IP, which type fits multiple numbers and business messaging, and the honest limits on avoiding bans.

Thordata claims a 2018 founding, but its Hong Kong company dates to 2023 and its own US trademark claims first use in 2025. Here is the sourced timeline.

Proxy anonymity grades explained: what transparent, anonymous, and elite proxies leak, the X-Forwarded-For and Via headers that set the grade, and how to test yours.

AWM Proxy sold access to malware-infected PCs as proxies from 2008 until Google sued its operators in 2021. How it worked, who ran it, and the Glupteba link.

BuyProxies sold dedicated 'virgin' datacenter proxies at buyproxies.org. What it sold, why the private-proxy era faded, and if it is still worth buying.

GeoSurf was one of the oldest enterprise residential proxy networks. It lost a patent war to Bright Data and shut down all proxy services on December 20, 2023.