The HProxy Blog

SwitchyOmega setup for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox: install ZeroOmega, add an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy, switch from the toolbar, and route sites with auto switch.

What is a mobile proxy? A real 4G/5G carrier IP shared by thousands of phone users, so sites can barely block it. How mobile IPs work, rotate, and what they cost.

What is a residential proxy? A real home IP that makes your traffic look like an ordinary person online. How it works, why sites trust it, and what it costs.

reCAPTCHA interrupts your scraping when your IP reputation or behavior looks automated. Here is what triggers the challenge and how to see it far less often.

Are free proxies safe? An honest guide from a team that runs a free proxy list: what a free proxy can read, inject or steal, and when free is genuinely safe.

An honest CroxyProxy review: what the free web proxy is good at, where it quietly fails (logins, scraping, speed), whether it's safe, and better alternatives.

Free proxy data study: across 537,000 free proxies and 47 million checks, how many actually work, how fast they die, their protocol mix, and where they live.

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.

Genuine free residential proxies are mostly a myth. Our data on 537,000+ free proxies shows they're overwhelmingly datacenter, plus how to spot the real traps.

A free web proxy loads one site in your browser with no setup. A free proxy list gives you ip:port entries you control in any tool. Here's which one you need.

HideMyAss's free proxy hides your IP from websites, not from HMA. Here is the documented record, from the 2011 LulzSec case to what the proxy still logs.

An honest Hidester review of the free web proxy: what it hides, the metadata its policy logs, its Hong Kong base, and when a dedicated proxy is smarter.

Learn how to check if a proxy is working: test if it's alive, fast, and anonymous with curl, or paste it into our free online proxy checker. No signup.

A 504 Gateway Timeout through a proxy has a handful of specific causes. Here's how to diagnose which one you have and fix it, with copy-paste checks.

Chrome has no built-in proxy panel. The four ways to route Chrome through a proxy: system settings, an extension, command-line flags, or a separate profile.

Every way to route curl through a proxy: -x syntax, SOCKS5 vs socks5h, proxy auth, env vars, timing flags, plus scripts to test whole proxy lists in parallel.

HProxy vs Bright Data on price, network and ownership: a cheaper Bright Data alternative for residential proxies, and when the enterprise machine is worth paying up for.

How to choose and use proxies for web scraping: proxy types ranked by job, rotation strategy, avoiding blocks, request hygiene, and code you can run today.

The real difference between rotating and static residential proxies, how rotation works mechanically, where each one fails, and a decision guide by use case.

What is a SOCKS5 proxy? How the protocol works, what it does that HTTP proxies can't, remote DNS, UDP support, and when a SOCKS5 proxy is the right choice.

An honest guide from a team that runs a free proxy list: which jobs free proxies handle safely, which ones burn you, and how to tell in 30 seconds.