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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Free proxies
Free Proxies for Google Flights: What 60 of Them Actually Did
Free proxies for Google Flights, measured: 60 live free proxies asked for the page, only 8 loaded the shell, and the shell has no fares without JavaScript. Why free fails, what it is good for, and when to pay.
August 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Hilton: 120 Tested, None Got Through
Free proxies for Hilton, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for a Hilton search, none returned a page and 20 were challenged. Why free fails on Hilton's member rates and defenses, and when to go paid.
August 24, 2026 · 3 min read
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Free Proxies for Hotels.com: 120 Tested, None Returned a Page
Free proxies for Hotels.com, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for a Hotels.com search, none returned content. Why free fails on its member rates and Expedia backend, and when to go paid.
August 24, 2026 · 3 min read
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Free Proxies for Kayak: 120 Tested, Exactly One Got Through
Free proxies for Kayak, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for a Kayak search, exactly one reached it and 18 were challenged. Why Kayak bans proxies hard, and when the job needs paid residential.
August 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies for Marriott: The Most-Challenged Site We Tested
Free proxies for Marriott, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for a Marriott search, none got through and 24 were challenged, the most of any travel site we tested. Why free fails, and when to go paid.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
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Free Proxies for Skyscanner: 60 Tested, 1 Got Through
Free proxies for Skyscanner, measured: 60 live free proxies asked for a search page, 1 loaded, 9 hit a human-verification wall, 50 failed. Why free fails against Skyscanner's bot management, and when the job needs paid residential.
August 24, 2026 · 6 min read
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Free Proxies for Trivago: The One Travel Site 20 of 120 Reached
Free proxies for Trivago, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for a Trivago page, 20 reached it, the best result of any travel site we tested. Why Trivago is the exception, and why it still is not enough.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
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Free Proxies for Uber Eats: Another Country's Menu, Measured Against 50 Proxies
Free proxies for Uber Eats, measured: 50 fresh elite proxies, 39 never connected, 11 hit Cloudflare's challenge, 0 loaded the site. Where a free proxy still fits for a look at another country's storefront, and where it never does.
August 24, 2026 · 6 min read
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Free Proxies for United: 120 Tested, Not One Connected
Free proxies for United Airlines, measured: 120 fresh free proxies asked for united.com, not one completed the request. The starkest result of our travel test, and why United needs paid residential.
August 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Data study
We Pointed Free Proxies at 21 AI Sites: Which Edges Block Them, Which Wave Them Through, and the Four Kinds of Wall
A measured study, August 24, 2026: three runs of 50 free proxies from our own list, each sent to a dozen AI sites. Only 20 to 27 of 50 could carry HTTPS at all. claude.ai challenged 18 of 27, Character.AI refused half, Poe challenged a third, while DeepSeek, Civitai, Janitor AI, Mistral and x.ai let every one through, Hugging Face answered three with a 429, and Google Flow showed four a country page. The numbers, the four different walls behind them, and what they mean if you rely on free proxies.
August 24, 2026 · 13 min read
Data study
We Pointed 120 Free Proxies at 12 Travel Sites. 31 Reached Any of Them
A measured study: 120 fresh free proxies against 12 travel booking sites (OTAs, metasearch, airlines, hotel chains). How many reached each, why zero got real OTA or hotel-chain content, and what it means.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Data study
We Knocked on 47 Front Doors With 20 Free Proxies Each: Who Challenges, Who Blocks, Who Stalls
A measured atlas of 47 consumer sites (delivery, restaurants, grocery, pharmacy, retail, fuel): what each front door does to a bare datacenter client and to 20 fresh free proxies, five door types, which bot vendors sit where, and why 'dead' is a property of the proxy list rather than the site.
August 24, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
Git Proxy Settings: How to Set, Unset, and Fix Every Proxy Error
How git finds its proxy and which setting wins, measured with Git 2.51, how to set, disable and remove it, and the fix for each error, in the wording today's git prints.
August 24, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
Google "Unusual Traffic From Your Computer Network": What It Means and How to Stop It
Google shows this page when your network looks automated. Both versions of the page word for word, the causes Google lists, and the fixes in order.
August 24, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
Grok as a Janitor AI Proxy: The xAI Endpoint, What a Message Costs, and the EU Delay to Read First
xAI's API is OpenAI-compatible, so Grok drops into Janitor AI's proxy field: https://api.x.ai/v1/chat/completions with a key from console.x.ai and a model such as grok-4.7. What Grok costs per message at xAI's listed prices, the OpenRouter route, the acceptable-use policy that governs the content, and the region and EU-launch caveats a proxy meets but does not dissolve.
August 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Guide
503 Service Unavailable Through a Proxy: Who Sent It, and the Fix for Each
A 503 through a proxy can come from the proxy, a rate limiter, the site's edge or the site. How to tell which, measured with curl, Wget and Python requests.
August 24, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
Cloudflare Error 522 Connection Timed Out Through a Proxy: What Actually Fixes It
A 522 means Cloudflare could not reach the site's own server in time, so a new proxy rarely helps. Cloudflare's timers, the causes, and what to do.
August 24, 2026 · 13 min read
Guide
How to Scrape Flight Prices in 2026: The APIs, the Rules and the Proxy Setup
How to collect flight prices in 2026: the official APIs and their costs, what 12 fare sites' robots.txt files allow, the proxy setup, its traffic and dated proxy prices.
August 24, 2026 · 12 min read
Guide
How to Scrape Hotel Prices in 2026: The APIs, the Rules and the Rate Layers
How to collect hotel prices in 2026: the Booking.com and Expedia APIs, what the sites' terms and robots files allow, which rate layers follow the guest, the setup and dated proxy prices.
August 24, 2026 · 11 min read
Guide
How to Turn Off a Proxy on Windows 11, Mac, Chrome, and Your Phone
Where the proxy switch lives on Windows, macOS, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Android, and iPhone, how to prove it is off, and what it means when it returns.
August 24, 2026 · 14 min read
Guide
Janitor AI Error 429: What the Limit Is, Which Backend Set It, and What Actually Lifts It
A 429 on Janitor AI is a rate limit set by the backend behind your proxy: OpenRouter's 20 a minute and 50 a day, Gemini's per-project caps, DeepSeek's per-account concurrency. What each one means, the fixes that work, and the three that never do: a second account, a second key, and a different IP.
August 24, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Janitor AI Network Error and 401 Unauthorized: The Two Errors That Happen Before the Model Answers
A network error on Janitor AI means the request never reached a model; a 401 means it reached one that rejected the key. Janitor's own guide traces most network errors to a wrong URL or an unrefreshed page. The exact URLs for OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude and Mistral to compare character by character, a two-line curl test, the key mistakes behind 401, and the one network-error case that is about your network.
August 24, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
Janitor AI 'No Endpoints Found': The Three OpenRouter Settings Behind It, and the Fix for Each
'No endpoints found' on Janitor AI is OpenRouter saying nobody is serving the model you chose, or that your own settings forbid the providers that would. Janitor's error guide lists three causes: provider restrictions, a retired model id, and a privacy setting. Here is each one, the fix, and the current list of free ids.
August 24, 2026 · 5 min read
Guide
KoboldAI as a Janitor AI Proxy: A Local Model, No Key, No Token Cost, and Why the Tunnel Is the Hard Part
KoboldCpp runs an open-weights model on your own machine and exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so Janitor AI can use it with no API key and no per-token cost. The catch is the address: localhost means the machine that sends the request, so the usual route gives your endpoint a public HTTPS address through a tunnel. How the local route works, why it is the most private option, and the honest limits: your hardware, and the tunnel.
August 24, 2026 · 5 min read
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