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Guides, comparisons and honest explainers on proxies, scraping and staying unblocked, from the team that actually runs the network.
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Comparison
Best Captcha Solving Services: Real Cost Compared
Six captcha solving services, every published price converted to dollars per 1,000 solves. Half the market does not sell by the solve at all.
September 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Review
CaptchaAI.com Review: Unlimited Solves, Priced by Thread
CaptchaAI sells concurrency, not solves, which inverts the usual cost curve. We worked the break-even from its own numbers: about 25,000 solves a month.
September 8, 2026 · 7 min read
Data study
Independent Benchmark of Our Residential Network: Our Worst Number Was 60% on Google
ProxyVero measured our residential pool at 89.4% success and 60% on Google. We downloaded its full 50-provider dataset to find out whether 60% is bad.
September 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
What happened to Cool-proxy.net: the free proxy list that froze in December 2022, and what to use instead
Cool-proxy.net listed free proxies from 2007. Its data froze on December 1, 2022, the site served that snapshot into 2024, and the domain was parked in 2025.
September 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
What happened to GatherProxy.com: the free proxy tool that went dark in 2020, and what to use instead
GatherProxy.com checked free proxies from April 2013 until February 2020. What it was, when it went dark, and who still parks the domain today.
September 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Comparison
What happened to GimmeProxy.com: the free rotating proxy API that stopped answering in 2025, and what to use instead
GimmeProxy.com returned one checked public proxy per API call from May 2015. Its last archived answer is dated January 30, 2025, and the domain now 404s.
September 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
What happened to ProxyScan.io: the free proxy list that now sends you to an IP checker, and what to use instead
ProxyScan.io ran a free proxy list and a public API from January 2020 until autumn 2023. When it broke, who still holds it, and what a script can call instead.
September 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
What happened to SocksList.net: the SOCKS proxy list that announced its own shutdown, and what to use instead
SocksList.net sold free and paid SOCKS proxy lists from 2007 and posted a shutdown notice for December 1, 2021. What it charged, and what replaced it.
September 6, 2026 · 7 min read
Comparison
What happened to Xroxy.com: twenty years of free proxy lists, and what to use instead
Xroxy.com listed free proxies from April 2005 until January 2023. What it was, when it died, who holds the domain now, and which free lists still relay.
September 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
Buy Mobile Proxies in 2026: What 4G and 5G IPs Cost and What They Change
Buy mobile proxies with the market in view: a median $4.00 per GB across 33 sellers in October 2026, what a carrier IP changes, and the checks before you pay.
September 2, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Proxies for undetected-chromedriver: Setup, Authentication and SOCKS5 (Measured on Chrome 151)
undetected-chromedriver proxy setup: --proxy-server, why user:pass in the URL fails, three fixes that work, SOCKS5 and headless, measured on Chrome 151.
September 2, 2026 · 20 min read
Guide
Residential Proxy Free Trial: What 16 Sellers Offer in 2026
Trial and refund terms of 16 residential proxy companies, read October 22, 2026: free trials, paid trials, refunds, and what to test in your first GB.
September 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
Best Residential Proxies 2026: 10 Providers Compared on Published Facts
Ten residential proxy providers and ours, compared from their own pages in October 2026: the price of 10 GB and 100 GB, billing, expiry, targeting and payment.
September 1, 2026 · 12 min read
Guide
Buy Proxies With Crypto: Coins, Networks, Fees and How the Checkout Works
How to buy residential proxies with Bitcoin, USDT and more: what each network charged to send a payment in October 2026, the invoice rules and documents.
September 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
Buy a Residential Proxy for Canada: Networks, Uses and Prices
Buy a residential proxy for Canada: which home networks Canadian addresses come from, what a Canadian address changes, why free ones fail, and what it costs.
September 1, 2026 · 5 min read
Guide
Buy a Residential Proxy for India: Networks, Payment and Prices
Buy a residential proxy for India: which networks Indian addresses come from, why free Indian proxies fail, how to pay with an Indian card, and what it costs.
September 1, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
Pay As You Go Residential Proxies: The Math Against Subscriptions
Pay as you go residential proxies at 14 sellers, read October 22, 2026: the price per GB, when bought traffic expires, and when a monthly plan wins.
September 1, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
PlainProxies.com review and alternatives (2026)
PlainProxies sells residential proxies from €0.55 a GB, but only at 5,000 GB. Prices on October 6, 2026, the ID check, the web proxy, five alternatives.
September 1, 2026 · 14 min read
Tutorial
Proxy einrichten: Windows, Chrome, Firefox, Android
Proxy einrichten Schritt für Schritt: in Windows, Chrome, Firefox und Android, mit und ohne Passwort. Wo du IP, Port und Zugangsdaten einträgst und wie du prüfst, dass es läuft.
August 28, 2026 · 15 min read
Guide
Blocked From Editing Wikipedia? Why It Happens and How to Edit Again
Why Wikipedia blocks people who never edited, how to read the block notice, and the ways back its rules allow. We checked 300 proxies: 99 were blocked.
August 26, 2026 · 11 min read
Guide
Cloudflare Error 1020: What Access Denied Means in 2026 and Who Can Fix It
Cloudflare error 1020 means a security feature the site owner set, such as API Shield, blocked your request. What causes it now and who can lift it.
August 26, 2026 · 6 min read
Guide
Cloudflare Verify You Are Human Loop: Why It Repeats and How to Fix It
The box says you passed, the page reloads, and Cloudflare asks again. Why the pass does not stick, and the fix for each cause, in order.
August 26, 2026 · 16 min read
Guide
How to Check If an IP Is Blacklisted, Step by Step
Check whether an IP is blacklisted the way the blocklists work: a reversed-IP DNS lookup, Spamhaus' listing and error codes, the test entries, and dead lists.
August 26, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
A Website Says VPN or Proxy Detected: Why It Happens and What You Can Do
Why a site says VPN or proxy detected: address lists, hosting ranges, shared carrier addresses and browser signals, from the vendors' own docs, and the fixes.
August 26, 2026 · 14 min read
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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. $0.23/GB is the 10,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
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