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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Tutorial
How to Set Up a Proxy on Pop!_OS
Pop!_OS 24.04's COSMIC desktop has no proxy screen. How to set a proxy that Chrome, Firefox, apt and the terminal all use, read from the code of each.
October 4, 2026 · 8 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on a Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi OS has a proxy menu in raspi-config. What it really writes, how to use it over SSH, the password trap, sudo, Chromium on the desktop and Raspberry Pi Imager behind a proxy.
October 4, 2026 · 10 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on a Samsung Galaxy
Where One UI keeps the proxy on a Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet, from Samsung's own documents: Wi-Fi under View more, mobile data in the APN, and where a proxy login can go.
October 4, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Argos: the Argos stock checker, and what argos.co.uk showed our server
Argos checks stock on every product page: enter a town or postcode and pick a store. Its app and store checkers do too. What argos.co.uk showed our server.
October 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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Proxies for Autotrader: price drop alerts, price labels and what autotrader.co.uk allows
Autotrader UK has its own price drop alerts and price labels against its valuation. What outside price trackers do, and what Autotrader's terms allow.
October 3, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Google Hotels: the price tracker, and why your country can change a rate
Google Hotels tracks prices itself and emails you when they drop. Some rates show only to searchers in one country, which Google reads from the IP address.
October 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Google Images: the closing image API, the rules and image rights
Google's own route to image results, the Custom Search JSON API, is closed to new customers and ends on January 1, 2027. What Google allows, and image rights.
October 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Google Jobs: where the listings come from, the EEA difference and the rules
Google's job listings start on employers' and job sites' pages. In the EEA, job searches add a Job sites carousel. What Google allows, and where a proxy fits.
October 3, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies for Google local results: what sets the location and what Google allows
Google places a search by device, home or work address, past searches or IP. Distance is one local ranking factor. How to check another city, and the rules.
October 3, 2026 · 9 min read
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Proxies for Google News: editions by country, the RSS feeds and their terms
Google News picks its edition from language and region, carried in the page address. Its feed loaded from our US server, and its terms allow personal use only.
October 3, 2026 · 4 min read
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Proxies for Google reviews: the API, the five-review limit and what Google allows
Owners can pull every review of a verified profile through the Business Profile API. For other places, the Places API returns at most five. What Google allows.
October 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Takealot: price trackers, wish lists and what Takealot's terms allow
Takealot's app listings name no price history, so outside trackers fill the gap. What they do, what Takealot's terms say about robots, and its Seller API.
October 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Tesco: the stock checker in the Tesco app, and what tesco.com showed our server
Tesco's own stock checker is Stock Check in its app, with live stock for your local store. What tesco.com showed our US server, and what Tesco's terms allow.
October 3, 2026 · 5 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on Arch Linux and Manjaro
pacman has no proxy setting of its own. Which variable it does read, how to keep it through sudo, and what Manjaro's Pamac and MSYS2 on Windows change.
October 3, 2026 · 11 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on CentOS, RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux
CentOS, RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux keep a proxy in six places. Every step for yum, dnf, subscription-manager and sudo, checked against each tool's own code.
October 3, 2026 · 20 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on Fedora
Fedora keeps a proxy in five places. Every step for GNOME, the terminal, dnf and sudo, run on Fedora 44 with a proxy that logs each request.
October 3, 2026 · 15 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on Linux Mint
Linux Mint's proxy setting reaches Firefox, not the terminal or Update Manager. Every place to set it on Mint 22.3, checked against Mint's own code.
October 3, 2026 · 14 min read
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How to Set Up a Proxy on Debian
Debian keeps a proxy in five places that do not share it. Every step for GNOME, the terminal, apt and sudo, run on Debian 13 with a proxy that logs each request.
October 2, 2026 · 20 min read
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Proxies for Agnai: Who Sends Your Requests, Local Requests, Third-Party URLs and a Self-Hosted Server
Where a proxy goes for Agnai, from its source: the server sends model requests unless Use Local Requests is on, and a self-hosted server needs two settings.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Backyard AI: The Web and Phone Apps, the Retired Desktop App, and What the Terms Say
Where a proxy goes for Backyard AI: the web app, the iPhone and Android apps, the desktop app it no longer supports, and what its terms say.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Codex CLI: HTTPS_PROXY, the System Proxy Feature, and the Sandbox Network Proxy
How the Codex CLI takes a proxy, from its source and docs: the variables it reads, the system proxy feature, where SOCKS works, and the sandbox network proxy.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Cohere: Why the Python SDK Ignores HTTPS_PROXY, and Where a Proxy Goes Instead
Where a proxy goes for Cohere, from its SDK source and docs: why HTTPS_PROXY stopped working in the Python SDK, the fix, the TypeScript SDK and base URLs.
September 28, 2026 · 5 min read
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Proxies for Copy.ai: The Web App and the Workflows API Behind a Proxy, and Why Webhooks Never Use It
Where a proxy goes for Copy.ai, from its docs: the web app, the workflows API and its key header, and the webhooks that come back to your server instead.
September 28, 2026 · 3 min read
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Proxies for DALL-E: DALL-E Left the OpenAI API on May 12, 2026, What Replaced It, and Where a Proxy Goes
OpenAI removed DALL-E 2 and 3 from its API on May 12, 2026. What replaced them, what a free DALL-E proxy really is, and where a proxy goes for the new models.
September 28, 2026 · 4 min read
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