Billal Ainaoui
Billal Ainaoui is the founder of HProxy.com. He started it to make honest proxy infrastructure anyone can afford, and he still reads every support message himself. The guides he signs come from the prices, tests and support questions the team works with every day. HProxy sells proxies, so weigh his view with that in mind.
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Guide
Access Denied, Reference #18 (Akamai): What It Means and How to Fix It
The Access Denied page with a Reference #18 number comes from Akamai, not the site. What the number says, why you were refused, and what to do, in order.
August 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
Ahrefs "Too Many Sessions" Error: What It Means and How to Fix It
Ahrefs lets one person use a login, on one device at a time. Why you get signed out, what a VPN or a proxy changes, and the fixes that stay inside Ahrefs' rules.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Proxy Check Failed in Antidetect Browsers: Fixes
A failed proxy check in an antidetect browser has seven causes: format, credentials, a local VPN, the allowlist, the protocol, a dead exit, or the network. How to tell which.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Best Free SillyTavern Proxy That Actually Works (2026)
The best free proxy for SillyTavern is a free model backend, not a stranger's reverse proxy. OpenRouter's free models, Google AI Studio's free tier and a local model, with the exact SillyTavern fields to fill in and the fixes for 401, 429, no endpoints found and connection errors.
August 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
Claude as a Janitor AI Proxy: What It Costs per Message, the Two Routes, and Anthropic's Own Caveat
Claude is never free on Janitor AI, but it is cheaper than most people think: at OpenRouter's listed $2 per million input tokens for Claude Sonnet 5.5, a 20,000-token roleplay message costs about four cents. The exact values for the OpenRouter route and for Anthropic's own OpenAI-compatibility layer, Anthropic's note that the layer is for testing rather than production, the usage policy that governs what Claude will write, and why no proxy of any kind changes it.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Cloudflare Errors 1006, 1015 and 1020: What Each Code Means and Who Can Lift It
Cloudflare's 1xxx codes name what refused you: an IP, network or country ban, your browser, a rate limit or a security feature, and who can lift each one.
August 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
CloudFront "The Request Could Not Be Satisfied": Every Version, What It Means, the Fix
The CloudFront error page comes in eight versions, from Request blocked and Bad request to the country block and the 504 timeout. What each second line means, from AWS and 628 reports.
August 24, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
curl: (5) Could Not Resolve Proxy, and curl (97) Proxy Handshake Error: Causes and Fixes
curl exit 5 means curl could not use the proxy address it was given, very often -x typed for -X. Exit 97 is a failed SOCKS handshake. Every message, measured in curl 8.21 and 8.16.
August 24, 2026 · 12 min read
Free proxies
Deutsche IP-Adresse bekommen: die Wege im Vergleich
Deutsche IP-Adresse bekommen: Proxy, VPN oder Residential-IP im ehrlichen Vergleich. Welcher Weg für Streaming, Preis-Prüfung, SEO und Testen passt, und wo kostenlose Optionen scheitern.
August 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Comparison
Do Proxies or VPNs Get You Cheaper Flights? What the Studies Found
Do proxies or VPNs get cheaper flights? Two airline studies found no location pricing, and recent VPN tests saved $0 to $7. When the country changes a fare.
August 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
Docker Proxy Errors: proxyconnect, TLS x509, Pulls, Containers and Builds
Set Docker's proxy for pulls, containers and builds, and read each proxyconnect error from the words after it, with Go's source code and our own test run.
August 24, 2026 · 11 min read
Guide
"Your Connection Is Not Private" Behind a Proxy: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID and MITM_DETECTED Explained
A certificate warning on every HTTPS site means something is re-signing your traffic. How to read the certificate, the antivirus and proxy causes, and each fix.
August 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT: What "Checking the Proxy and the Firewall" Actually Means
Chrome's timeout page tells you to check the proxy and the firewall. We made Chrome wait on seven kinds of silence, over http:// and https://, to see which gives which error, then list the checks in order.
August 24, 2026 · 13 min read
Guide
ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED: Why the Proxy Refused the Tunnel and How to Fix It
Chrome reached the proxy, asked it for an HTTPS tunnel, and the proxy said no. What Chromium does with that answer, how to read it, and the fix for each cause.
August 24, 2026 · 12 min read
Guide
FlareSolverr Not Working? Every Error Message, What Causes It, and the Fix
Challenge not detected, Timeout after 60.0 seconds, cookies not valid, empty cookies: which program wrote your FlareSolverr error, what it means, and the fix.
August 24, 2026 · 18 min read
Guide
Free Gemini Proxy for Janitor AI: The OpenAI-Compatible URL, the Free Models, and the Privacy Trade
Use Google's Gemini as a free Janitor AI proxy: the OpenAI-compatible endpoint to paste, the API key from Google AI Studio, the Gemini 3.x Flash models that Google lists as free of charge, the per-project rate limits, the 18+ and region rules, and the fact that free-tier content is used to improve Google's products.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Free OpenRouter Proxy for Janitor AI: Setup, the Free Models, and the Daily Cap
Use OpenRouter as a free Janitor AI proxy: the exact Proxy URL, where the key comes from, which :free model ids exist right now (16 on September 28, 2026), the 50-a-day cap and the one-time $10 that lifts it to 1,000, the privacy setting that causes 404s, and why a second account does nothing.
August 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Agoda: 120 Tested, None Returned Listings
Free proxies for Agoda, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for an Agoda page, none returned listings. Why free fails on Agoda's Asian markets and JavaScript shell, and when the job needs paid residential.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Booking.com: We Asked 60 and Counted
Free proxies for Booking.com, measured: 60 live free proxies asked for one search page, zero returned real results. Why free fails here, what it is still good for, and when the job needs paid residential.
August 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Character.AI: What Works, What Cloudflare Blocks, and the Token Risk
Free proxies for Character.AI, measured: we pointed 50 fresh free proxies at character.ai and counted how many Cloudflare let through. What free handles (a filtered network), what it cannot (the queue, the age rule, a safe login), and the session-token risk.
August 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Chess.com: What Works, What Cannot, and What We Measured
Free proxies for Chess.com, split by job: reaching the site on a blocked school network, playing through one, and the public API. We pointed 50 free proxies at Chess.com and counted. What free handles, and what it costs you on the clock.
August 24, 2026 · 9 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Delta: 14 Reached the Page, but Not the Fares
Free proxies for Delta, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for delta.com, 14 reached it and none were challenged, but the fares are not on the page a proxy fetches. Why free still does not work for Delta.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for DoorDash: What DoorDash Allows and What We Found
Do free proxies work on DoorDash? You do not need one to see another city: DoorDash lists restaurants for the address you enter. Its terms forbid scraping.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Expedia: We Tested 120, Zero Got a Real Page
Free proxies for Expedia, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for an Expedia search page, none returned real content. Why free fails on Expedia, what it is still good for, and when the job needs paid residential.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
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