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
Guide
How to Scrape Past Cloudflare With Proxies in 2026
We changed one thing at a time against 14 sites. The same plain request from a home and a datacenter address got the same answer at all 14; changing only the TLS stack changed two. What Cloudflare checks, what a residential proxy does there, and the setup that follows.
July 3, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
How to Use Proxies in Selenium (Chrome and Firefox)
How to use proxies in Selenium for Chrome and Firefox: set the proxy on the driver, log in to an authenticated proxy, rotate IPs, and go headless.
July 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
How to use proxies with Python requests
How to send Python requests through a proxy: the proxies dictionary, passwords, sessions, SOCKS5, proxy variables and trust_env, timeouts, retries, and the error each failure raises. Tested with requests 2.34.2 in September 2026.
July 3, 2026 · 14 min read
Guide
How to Vet a Proxy Provider: A Hands-On Quality Check
How to vet a proxy provider with a small paid top-up and two free checkers: the terms to read first, what each result means, and the red flags that end the test.
July 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
How Websites Detect Proxies, Residential Proxies Included
How websites detect proxies: address lists, reputation, headers, TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprints, timing and leaks, with our data on 7,251 working free proxies.
July 3, 2026 · 15 min read
Explainer
HTTP vs SOCKS5 Proxy: What Changes on the Wire, Measured
HTTP vs SOCKS5 proxy, measured with curl: round trips and bytes before the first byte of the site, who resolves DNS, UDP, the login, and which one to use.
July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
Review
PIA Proxy Review: the Private Internet Access SOCKS5 Proxy, Its Setup, Price and Addresses
The Private Internet Access proxy, checked October 22, 2026: the SOCKS5 server at proxy-nl on port 1080, its separate login, what sites see in Multi-Hop, the 30 Dutch addresses behind it, and what PIA costs.
July 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Use case
Ad Verification Proxies in 2026: What to Check, the Ad Rules, and the Best Proxies
Ad verification proxies load your own campaigns as a local user would. What verification checks, what Google's ad rules say, and dated prices for city, ISP and ASN checks.
July 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Use case
Proxies for Market Research in 2026: Local Data, the Rules, and the Best Residential Proxies
Proxies for market research collect prices, catalogs and ads market by market. What the studies show, what sites allow, and residential prices read October 26, 2026.
July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
Use case
Proxies for Price Monitoring: Which Type, How Much Traffic, What It Costs
Which proxy a price monitor needs, how much traffic 1,000 product pages a day move in a month (1.1 GB to 92 GB), what that costs, and the rules to follow.
July 3, 2026 · 14 min read
Use case
Proxies for SEO in 2026: What Google Allows, Local Checks and the Best Residential Proxies
Proxies for SEO in 2026: Google's rule on automated rank checks, the official search APIs that are closing, how Google sets location, and dated residential prices.
July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
Use case
Sneaker Proxies: What Actually Works for Copping
Sneaker proxies decide whether your tasks cop or get canceled. Which type works for Nike, Shopify and Footsites, how many you need, and how to pace them.
July 3, 2026 · 9 min read
Use case
Proxies for Social Media Management at Scale
Social media proxies let you run many accounts safely: one clean IP per account, why Instagram and TikTok favor mobile IPs, and how to keep each identity.
July 3, 2026 · 9 min read
Use case
Ticketing Proxies: What Works for Event Drops
Ticketing proxies give each buying session its own clean IP for event drops on Ticketmaster and AXS. Which type works, how many you need, and their limits.
July 3, 2026 · 9 min read
Use case
Proxies for Travel Fare Aggregation in 2026: The Rules, the Licensed Routes, and the Best Proxies
Travel fare aggregation in 2026: what 12 fare sites' robots files and KAYAK's terms say, the licensed fare APIs and their prices, and dated proxy prices by market.
July 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
The Proxy Server Is Refusing Connections: How to Fix It
Firefox or Tor Browser says the proxy server is refusing connections. Every cause reproduced on our machine, the fix for each, and a test for the proxy.
July 3, 2026 · 23 min read
Guide
SwitchyOmega Setup Guide: ZeroOmega, Proxy Profiles and Switch Rules
SwitchyOmega setup in 2026: install ZeroOmega from the right listing, add an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy, switch from the toolbar, and route sites with switch rules.
July 3, 2026 · 12 min read
Explainer
What Is a Mobile Proxy? 4G, 5G and LTE Proxies Explained
A mobile proxy sends your requests out from an address a phone carrier assigned. What 4G, 5G and LTE mean, why many people share one address, and the cost.
July 3, 2026 · 10 min read
Explainer
What Is a Residential Proxy? How It Works and Where the IPs Come From
A residential proxy sends your requests out through a home's internet address. How the gateway and the exit device work, what sites see, and where the IPs come from.
July 3, 2026 · 14 min read
Guide
Why You Keep Hitting reCAPTCHA When Scraping (and How to Reduce It)
reCAPTCHA interrupts your scraping when your IP reputation or behavior looks automated. Knowing what triggers the challenge is how you see it far less often.
July 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Free proxies
Are Free Proxies Safe? What We Found in Our Own Pool
Are free proxies safe? We tested our own pool: about one in four free web proxies passed your address on, and hundreds answered HTTPS with a fake certificate.
July 2, 2026 · 8 min read
Data study
Free Proxy Data Study: What 110 Million Checks Found
Free proxy data study: across 580,000 free proxies and 110 million checks, how many actually work, how fast they die, their protocol mix, and where they live.
July 2, 2026 · 8 min read
Free proxies
The Free Proxy List Graveyard: GatherProxy, Samair, and the Sites That Died
A tour of the free proxy list sites that died or went quiet, from GatherProxy to Samair, why they keep dying, and where to find a live list that still works.
July 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Free proxies
Free Residential Proxies: What Our Pool Shows
Are there free residential proxies? About four in five addresses in our free pool were not labeled datacenter, and more than a quarter of their proxies leaked.
July 2, 2026 · 6 min read
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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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