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.
Founder of HProxy.com · 1666 articles
Tutorial
Discord Proxy Setup: Desktop, Browser, Voice and Bots
Discord has no proxy setting and says it does not work with proxies. How the desktop app takes one anyway, why a login fails, and why voice skips the proxy.
August 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Tutorial
Proxy Authentication Without a Password: When Your Software Can't Send One
Windows has no proxy password field, Chrome ignores a login written into its flag, and some apps only take proxies without one. Four fixes that work, from an address allowlist to a relay on 127.0.0.1.
August 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Tutorial
IP, Port, Username, Password: What Your Proxy Line Actually Means
Someone handed you 198.51.100.7:8080:hp_ir4k2:9fa2c1 and no instructions. The four parts, the three ways the same proxy is written, which shape each tool wants, and the password characters that break it.
August 8, 2026 · 13 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy on Linux
Proxy on Linux: the export line, the permanent files, why sudo apt ignores it, the apt, git, pip and curl settings, and the proof. Ubuntu 24.04, measured.
August 8, 2026 · 19 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy in qBittorrent
The setting most guides skip is the one that matters: an HTTP proxy in qBittorrent covers the tracker and not your peer connections. Where the boxes are, which to tick, and how to check it actually applied.
August 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy on Android
Set a proxy on Android: the Wi-Fi setting and what Android itself warns about it, the APN on mobile data, a device-wide proxy with adb, the login prompt and the exact errors.
August 7, 2026 · 11 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy in Chrome
Chrome has no proxy settings of its own. This guide shows what its proxy button really does, how to set one properly on each system, and how to proxy Chrome alone.
August 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy in Firefox
Where Firefox keeps its proxy settings now, why it follows your system proxy by default, and how to set an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy, the login, the No proxy for list and the errors.
August 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy on iPhone and iPad
Set a proxy on iPhone and iPad: Configure Proxy step by step, the login, which apps follow it, Safari's proxy error, mobile data through a profile, and why SOCKS5 needs an app.
August 7, 2026 · 11 min read
Tutorial
Proxy Setup on macOS: How to Set Up a Proxy on a Mac
Set a proxy on a Mac: System Settings step by step, which of Web, Secure web and SOCKS proxy to turn on, the bypass list, who follows it (Firefox does), Terminal's variables and networksetup.
August 7, 2026 · 11 min read
Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy on Windows 11
Set a proxy in Windows 11's Settings, then see which programs really follow it: browsers do, PowerShell 7 and curl read variables first, and Windows Update reads its own.
August 7, 2026 · 13 min read
Data study
Headless Browsers Are Not Free: What Puppeteer Costs in Proxy Bandwidth
A headless browser downloads the whole page. The median page weighed 2,987 KB in October 2026, so 100,000 loads move about 306 GB of per-GB proxy traffic.
August 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
How the _abck cookie works, measured in a real browser
What the Akamai _abck cookie is, what its value contains, how the sensor rewrites it, and what a proxy changes. Measured in Chrome on September 2, 2026.
August 6, 2026 · 15 min read
Guide
How to Configure Proxies for an Anti-Bot Solver API
A solver API builds its payload for one exit IP, so the proxy becomes a parameter. Session length, pool size, matching identity fields and reading your exit.
August 6, 2026 · 11 min read
Explainer
What Is an Anti-Bot Solver API, and How Is It Different From a CAPTCHA Solver?
A solver API generates the payload an anti-bot script would have produced, over plain HTTP, so you skip the browser. Where it sits between a CAPTCHA solver, a scraping API, and your own proxy.
August 6, 2026 · 11 min read
Free proxies
Free Proxies, Mapped: The Lists, the Checks, and the Catch
Sixty-three free-proxy pages in one map: where the live lists are, how to check them, what free actually costs, and the platform-by-platform reality.
August 4, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
How to Use a Proxy: Setup, Residential Sessions, Walls and Fixes
How to use a proxy in five steps, from the four values to the exit IP test and the errors, plus residential sessions, traffic budgets and 50+ setup guides.
August 4, 2026 · 11 min read
Comparison
The Proxy Industry Graveyard
Providers seized by the FBI, erased by Google, sued out of existence, or gone without a word. The full record of proxy industry deaths, and what the survivors look like.
August 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Review
Decodo.com review and alternatives (2026)
Decodo is Smartproxy, renamed on April 22, 2025. Read September 26, 2026: $4 a GB pay as you go, $3.75 on 3 GB, $2 at 1 TB, the refund rules and the alternatives.
August 3, 2026 · 11 min read
Data study
Free Proxy Source Quality Study: Half of 954,000 Proxies Never Worked
Our engine has checked 954,000 free proxies 426 million times across 116 source lists. Half never worked. The best list has a 24% hit rate, the worst 0.32%.
August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs IPBurger.com: Residential Prices, Monthly Plans and Refunds (2026)
HProxy vs IPBurger.com on residential proxies: its $59, $149 and $269 monthly plans against our pay-as-you-go Lite and Premium, with targeting and refunds.
August 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs Shifter.io: Residential and ISP Proxies, Plan by Plan (2026)
HProxy vs Shifter.io on October 22, 2026: three residential pools on monthly plans, ISP proxies whose address can refresh, a second month free and refund rules.
August 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs Thordata.com: Residential Prices, the 30-Day Rule and the Terms (2026)
HProxy vs Thordata.com on residential proxies: its $2.00 to $0.65 ladder against our Lite and Premium, the 30-day traffic rule, protocols and refunds.
August 3, 2026 · 7 min read
Review
IPRoyal.com Review: A Good Provider With an Expensive First Gigabyte
An independent provider with never-expiring traffic and a wide catalog, reviewed on the gap between its advertised per-GB floor and what a new buyer pays.
August 3, 2026 · 9 min read
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Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
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Honest guides and comparisons on proxies, scraping and staying unblocked, from the team that runs the network.