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
Review
Oxylabs.io review and alternatives (2026)
Oxylabs.io read on October 10, 2026: one subscription, residential from $30 for 5 GB to $2.50 a GB from 1 TB, monthly expiry, KYC for all, and the alternatives.
August 3, 2026 · 12 min read
Use case
What People Actually Use Proxies For: The Honest Map
What are proxies used for? Price checks, drops, travel, SEO, scraping, AI, social, streaming and more: what breaks in each case and which proxy type fits.
August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Data study
Residential Proxy Price Study 2026: What 57 Providers Charge per GB
Residential proxy prices in 2026 from 57 providers' own price lists: the median per GB at 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 GB, the spread, the gap and the fall since 2022.
August 3, 2026 · 11 min read
Data study
Residential Proxy Supply Chain Economics: What the Person Supplying It Earns
Residential proxies are resold consumer bandwidth. We checked what the apps buying that bandwidth pay per GB, against what providers charge for it.
August 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Data study
Scraping API Credit Multipliers: Why 250,000 Credits Buy Fewer Requests
Scraping APIs bill in credits, and one request can cost 1 credit or 75. We read the credit tables at ScrapingBee, ZenRows and ScraperAPI and did the arithmetic.
August 3, 2026 · 7 min read
Review
SOAX.com review and alternatives (2026)
SOAX sells residential and mobile proxies at one rate set by your plan and exit country. Prices, expiring credits, the ID check, support and alternatives.
August 3, 2026 · 12 min read
Review
Webshare.io review and alternatives (2026)
Webshare gives 10 proxies free and sells cheap datacenter IPs, but its residential traffic is a monthly plan that resets. Prices, fine print and alternatives.
August 3, 2026 · 12 min read
Comparison
The 'Best Chinese Proxy' Lists Are Wrong: They Name Zero Actual Chinese Companies
The English 'best Chinese proxy' roundups name only Western brands and zero real Chinese operators. Here is who actually runs China's proxy industry.
July 21, 2026 · 12 min read
Free proxies
Dead Free Proxy Sites: The Lists and Checkers That No Longer Work
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.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
DePIN Proxy Tokens: A Reality Check on Grass, Nodepay, and 'Earn Crypto for Bandwidth'
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.
July 21, 2026 · 14 min read
Comparison
Does Your Proxy Provider Resell Someone Else's Network? How to Tell
How to tell if your proxy provider just resells a bigger pool: shared gateways, identical pool sizes, WHOIS and ASN overlap, and rebrand chains.
July 21, 2026 · 13 min read
Comparison
Google Erased 13 Proxy Brands in One Move: Inside the IPIDEA Takedown
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.
July 21, 2026 · 13 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Playwright (Chromium, Firefox, WebKit)
Playwright's proxy option from its own docs and source: browser-wide or per context, why user:pass in the server URL is dropped, SOCKS5 without a login, bypass.
July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Scrapy (Rotating, Retries, Auth)
Proxies in Scrapy 2.19 from its own docs and source: the meta key, credentials since the 2.6.2 fix, which download handler takes SOCKS5, rotation and retries.
July 21, 2026 · 10 min read
Comparison
Inside the IPIDEA Cluster: How IP2World and PIA S5 Proxy Share One Hidden Network
Google says the actors behind IPIDEA control IP2World, PIA S5 Proxy and a dozen more storefronts. The companies, filings and shared plumbing behind them.
July 21, 2026 · 13 min read
Comparison
One Software Behind Many Mobile Proxy Brands: Inside the ProxySmart Stack
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.
July 21, 2026 · 12 min read
Use case
Proxies for Airbnb: The Right Type, Setup, and Avoiding Bans
Proxies for Airbnb: why the invite-only API pushes you to scraping, and which residential setup reads geo-priced listings and reviews at scale.
July 21, 2026 · 10 min read
Use case
Proxies for Facebook Marketplace: what the Facebook terms say
Facebook asks for one account per person and accurate details, and bars automated data collection without written permission. What it means for Marketplace.
July 21, 2026 · 4 min read
Use case
Proxies for OnlyFans: what the terms say about access, age checks and teams
OnlyFans requires fans to be 18 and legally permitted to view content where they are, checks their country of residence before an account starts, and holds creators responsible when a team helps. What the terms and privacy policy say, and what they leave out.
July 21, 2026 · 4 min read
Use case
Proxies for Pokemon TCG: proxy cards, the tournament rules and Pokemon Center
In the Pokemon TCG a proxy is a stand-in card, and events allow one only from a judge or organizer. What Pokemon Center says about VPNs, its queue and bots.
July 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Use case
Proxies for Pop Mart: Copping Labubu Blind-Box Drops
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.
July 21, 2026 · 14 min read
Use case
Proxies for Steam: what the Subscriber Agreement says, the store country and the Web API
Valve names IP proxying in the Steam Subscriber Agreement. How the store country really changes, why bans ignore your address, and the Web API for data.
July 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Use case
Proxies for WhatsApp: Meta's own proxy, several numbers, business messaging and bans
What a proxy can do for WhatsApp, by Meta's own pages: the built-in proxy and the servers behind it, what fits the field, business messaging and bans.
July 21, 2026 · 11 min read
Comparison
Thordata.com Real Founding Story: It Says 2018, Its Paperwork Says 2023
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.
July 21, 2026 · 14 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.