Topic anti-bot
Headless Browsers Are Not Free: What Puppeteer Costs in Proxy Bandwidth
A headless browser downloads the whole page. Behind a residential proxy that is billed by the gigabyte, and at 6.54 MB per protected page fetch the meter runs faster than most teams budget for.
How the _abck Cookie Works, and How to Read It When You Are Blocked
Akamai's _abck cookie carries a trust state, not a session id. Learn to read it, understand the three sensor posts that flip it, and tell apart the four ways a session still fails after it goes valid.
How to Configure Proxies for an Anti-Bot Solver API
Solver APIs generate a payload for one specific exit IP, so the proxy stops being a loose choice and becomes a parameter. Session length, geo matching, concurrency, and how to read your own exit address correctly.
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.
How to Use curl-impersonate (and curl_cffi) With Proxies
Combine a real browser TLS and HTTP2 fingerprint with a proxy IP to pass anti-bot: curl_cffi impersonate plus proxies in Python, the curl-impersonate binary with -x, and verifying both your JA3 and your exit IP.
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.
47M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup