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 Multilogin: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Multilogin are fine for testing a throwaway profile, not one you keep. Why a dead or leaky free IP burns a profile, and how to add one.
August 23, 2026 · 7 min read
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Free Proxies for Nike (SNKRS): What Actually Works
Free proxies for Nike and SNKRS almost never work: datacenter IPs against Akamai Bot Manager and account bans. The one thing they can still do, and what copping really needs.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
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Free Proxies for OpenSea: What Actually Works
Free proxies for OpenSea fail sustained floor and metadata scraping behind its rate limits and Cloudflare. A logged-out spot check works; real work needs residential.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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Free Proxies for Scrapy: What a Test of 300 Showed, and the Settings to Use
We sent the first request of a new Scrapy project through 300 free proxies from our list. 83 returned the file. The settings and middleware that follow.
August 23, 2026 · 10 min read
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Free Proxies for Selenium: What 300 Page Loads Showed, and the Setup to Use
We loaded a page and its 25 files through 300 free proxies from our list, the way Chrome does. 111 arrived whole. The setup and timeouts that follow.
August 23, 2026 · 9 min read
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Free Proxies for SHEIN: What Actually Works
Do free proxies work for SHEIN? Its Terms of Use forbid any robot or automated means of access, and a free proxy puts your account and card at risk.
August 23, 2026 · 9 min read
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Free Proxies for Shopify: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Shopify fail on defended stores: datacenter IPs draw the checkpoint and get orders canceled. The narrow browse case, and when to go residential.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
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Free Proxies for StubHub: What Actually Works
Free proxies for StubHub are fine for a one-off price check and fail at real listing or price scraping. Why per-IP throttling breaks them, how to verify, and when to go residential.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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Free Proxies for Supreme: What Actually Works
Free proxies for a Supreme drop get your orders canceled: shared datacenter IPs are link-banned on sight. The narrow case they cover, how to verify, and when to go residential.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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Free Proxies for Telegram: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Telegram: which ones work, why free MTProto and SOCKS5 proxies are flaky and a privacy risk, the one narrow case they fit, and what to use instead.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
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Free Proxies for Ticketmaster: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Ticketmaster fail the moment the queue opens: they die mid-wait and lose your slot. The narrow case they cover, how to verify one, and when to go residential.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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Free Proxies for Walmart: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Walmart mostly fail: datacenter IPs against PerimeterX and store-level pricing. The narrow case where a fresh one works, and when the job needs residential.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
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Free Proxies for Yelp: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Yelp scraping fail fast: per-IP rate limits and CAPTCHAs stop shared datacenter IPs cold. The narrow case they cover, how to verify, and when to go residential.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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Free Proxies for Zalando: What Actually Works
Free proxies for Zalando fail at scale: datacenter IPs against bot defense, and no reliable per-country EU targeting. Where a fresh one works, and when to go residential.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
Geo-Testing Your App With Proxies: A QA Playbook
Localised pricing, regional catalogs and country-gated features all ship untested because QA runs from one office. How to verify what each country actually sees, in CI, without a VPN farm.
August 23, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
How to Resell Proxies in 2026: The Business, the Math and the Traps
Most proxy brands you can name are resellers themselves. How the business actually works, what it costs to start, where new resellers die, and how to pick a program that does not bill you before your customers do.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Test Proxy Speed and Latency (Free Methods)
Test proxy speed and latency for free: curl's timing variables with their exact meanings, a small Python timer, what latency, TTFB and throughput each measure, and testing from the right region.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With aiohttp: HTTPS, SOCKS5 and trust_env
aiohttp's own docs and code on proxies: proxy= per request or per session since 3.11, the login after 3.14, trust_env, HTTPS proxies and SOCKS5.
August 23, 2026 · 11 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Axios (Node.js)
How to use proxies with axios: why the proxy option fails on HTTPS, the httpsAgent fix with https-proxy-agent, SOCKS, auth, rotating a pool, timeouts and verifying the exit.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Colly (Go)
How to use proxies with Colly in Go: SetProxy for one proxy, the RoundRobinProxySwitcher for rotation, SOCKS, authentication, timeouts and retries, and verifying the exit IP.
August 23, 2026 · 4 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With LangChain
How to use proxies with LangChain: route WebBaseLoader, document loaders and scraping tools through a proxy, and why you proxy the data side, not the model call.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Node fetch (undici ProxyAgent)
Native fetch in Node has no proxy option. How to route it through a proxy with undici's ProxyAgent and setGlobalDispatcher, per-request dispatchers, auth, SOCKS, and verifying the exit.
August 23, 2026 · 4 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With OkHttp (Java, Kotlin, Android)
OkHttp's proxy rules from its own source: proxy() and the ProxySelector, the CONNECT tunnel and proxyAuthenticator, SOCKS through Java's socket, and the errors.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Postman: Settings, SOCKS5 and Newman
Postman's proxy settings in its own words: system or custom proxy, SOCKS since v11.56.4, the proxy login, the bypass list, OS variables, the 407 and Newman.
August 23, 2026 · 15 min read
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