troubleshooting

The plain 'You don't have permission to access' page with a Reference #18 number is Akamai refusing you before the site sees it. Why, and what to change.

Ahrefs counts simultaneous sessions against your plan's users. Why you get kicked out, why a VPN or rotating proxy makes it worse, and fixes that stay inside the terms.

A failed proxy check in an antidetect browser has seven causes: format, credentials, a local VPN, the allowlist, the protocol, a dead exit, or the network. How to tell which.

Cloudflare's 1xxx codes name the rule that refused you: a banned IP, network or country, a browser signature, a rate limit, or a firewall rule. What changes each.

CloudFront's error page has several variants: a WAF block, a country restriction, a bad request, a signed link, or a broken distribution. Which is which, and what to do.

curl exit 5 means the proxy's hostname did not resolve, usually a leftover variable or a typo. Exit 97 is a failed proxy handshake, usually SOCKS. The fixes for both.

A certificate warning on every HTTPS site means something is inspecting and re-signing your traffic. How to read the certificate to name the interceptor, and the fix for each.

Chrome's timeout page says to check the proxy and the firewall, and usually no proxy is involved. Rule it out in thirty seconds, then find the real cause.

Chrome reached the proxy and asked it to open an HTTPS tunnel, and the proxy could not. What that says about the proxy, the site, and your settings, with fixes.

Challenge not detected, timeout after 60000 ms, cookies not valid, IP banned: what each FlareSolverr error means, its fix, and where a proxy is the missing piece.

Google shows this when the address your network uses looks automated. The causes Google lists, why one person takes the blame for a network, and the fixes.

A 503 through a proxy can come from the target, a bot-management layer, a rate limiter, or the proxy itself. How to read which one answered, and the fix for each.

A 522 is Cloudflare failing to reach the site's origin, so swapping proxies almost never fixes it. What causes it, why scrapers see it more, and what to do.

Where the proxy switch lives on Windows, macOS, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Android, and iPhone, how to prove it is off, and what it means when it returns.

A 429 on Janitor AI is a rate limit set by the backend behind your proxy: OpenRouter's 20 a minute and 50 a day, Gemini's per-project caps, DeepSeek's per-account concurrency. What each one means, the fixes that work, and the three that never do: a second account, a second key, and a different IP.

A network error on Janitor AI means the request never reached a model; a 401 means it reached one that rejected the key. Janitor's own guide traces most network errors to a wrong URL or an unrefreshed page. The exact URLs for OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude and Mistral to compare character by character, a two-line curl test, the key mistakes behind 401, and the one network-error case a network proxy actually fixes.

'No endpoints found' on Janitor AI is OpenRouter saying nobody is serving the model you chose, or that your own settings forbid the providers that would. Janitor's error guide lists three causes: provider restrictions, a retired model id, and a privacy setting. Here is each one, the fix, and the current list of free ids.

Headless Chromium reports proxy failures as net:: errors on page.goto. What each means, why 127.0.0.1 fails inside Docker, and how each framework passes credentials.

Windows, Chrome, Firefox, and Outlook show a proxy sign-in box when a proxy answers 407. Which setting is asking, what to enter, and how to remove a proxy you never set.

Apache's mod_proxy reporting that the server behind it did not answer properly. What each Reason line means, why your own proxy settings are irrelevant, and the admin fixes.

This message comes from Windows itself, not a website. Where the proxy setting behind it lives, how to clear it in every place Windows keeps it, and what to do next.

Consoles ask about a proxy server during manual setup. For almost everyone the answer is Do Not Use. When one helps, what it cannot fix (NAT type, lag), and how to set it.

Something keeps rewriting your proxy setting: a leftover VPN, a policy or profile, or malware. How to identify the writer on Windows and Mac and remove it for good.

Reddit shows this page when your address looks like a VPN, proxy, or datacenter range. What triggers it, the fixes that work, and why logging in is the route Reddit offers.