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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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Explainer
ISP vs Residential Proxies: What Each One Is, What It Costs and Which to Use
ISP proxies are fixed home-provider addresses run from data centers, and residential proxies rotate through real homes. Real prices, and when to use each.
October 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Explainer
Mobile vs Residential Proxies: Price, Detection and Which to Buy
Mobile proxies vs residential proxies: a carrier address is shared by many users, a home address by one household. Prices at 64 sellers, detection, and a clear pick.
October 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
How to Use NoneCap With Residential Proxies to Solve hCaptcha
NoneCap solves hCaptcha through a proxy you pass with each solve. Give it a sticky residential line, submit the token from that same line within about two minutes, and enterprise sitekeys accept it.
October 22, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
Private and Dedicated Residential Proxies, Explained (2026)
What sellers mean by private and dedicated residential proxies, why a rotating pool is shared by design, and what a dedicated address costs, read October 22, 2026.
October 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Explainer
Residential VPN vs Residential Proxy: What Each One Gives You and What It Costs
A residential VPN puts one device behind one home address, and a residential proxy sends chosen apps through many. Real prices, sources, and which to pick.
October 22, 2026 · 9 min read
Explainer
What Is a Residential IP Address? How It Differs From Data Center and Mobile IPs
A residential IP address is one a home internet provider assigns to its customers. Why it changes, how IP databases label it, and how to get one elsewhere.
October 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Explainer
What is ixBrowser (ixbrowser.com)? The free antidetect browser, by its own team
ixBrowser is a free antidetect browser for Windows and macOS: 100 profiles on the free plan, each with its own fingerprint and proxy. A guest post by the ixBrowser team.
October 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Use case
PrimeSpy: A Free Ad Spy Tool for Meta and TikTok Ads, and How to See Those Ads Country by Country
What PrimeSpy does, what its free Trial and $9.99 Pro plan include, who it suits, and how to check a competitor's ad and landing page the way a user in that country sees them.
October 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Review
711Proxy.com: who runs it, its Hong Kong company and its record
711Proxy's English terms name VELOCITY WAVE LIMITED of Hong Kong, and its Chinese terms another company name at the same address. Its record since 2024.
October 14, 2026 · 12 min read
Review
ASocks.com: who runs it, the four companies in its terms and its record
ASocks has named four companies in its terms since 2022, from the BVI to Wyoming. The registers, a 2024 security report and its own 2026 statement.
October 14, 2026 · 16 min read
Review
CherryProxy.com: who ran it, its 360Proxy links and its end
Cherry Proxy's terms named no company. A FIRENET LIMITED applied for its US mark, its Mac app sat on 360proxy.com, and Google listed it in January 2026.
October 14, 2026 · 14 min read
Review
IP2World.com: who ran it, its company names and the shop that replaced it
IP2World named five companies in four years, and two more names hid in its code. Google listed it in 2026, and its old domain now hosts a new shop.
October 14, 2026 · 13 min read
Review
LunaProxy.com: who ran it, its Hong Kong companies and its end
LunaProxy named two Hong Kong companies in its terms, while its marks and browser extension named Mars Brothers. Google listed it in January 2026.
October 14, 2026 · 13 min read
Review
ProxyEmpire.io: the company behind it, its owners and its history
ProxyEmpire is run by SWIFT SAAS of Burgas, Bulgaria, owned by two partners since 2020: its register entry, accounts, payment resellers and record.
October 14, 2026 · 18 min read
Tutorial
Best language for web scraping: Python, JavaScript, Go and the rest
We ran the same scraper in Python, JavaScript, Go and Java on our server: speed, memory, lines of code, broken HTML, timeouts and proxies, measured.
October 12, 2026 · 15 min read
Tutorial
Best web scraping tools: what each does well and where it gets blocked
The scraping tools you can run yourself, sorted by job, with what our tests measured, and what 16 tool settings got back from eight sites behind bot defenses.
October 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
C# web scraping: HttpClient, HtmlAgilityPack, AngleSharp and Playwright, tested
How to scrape websites in C#: HttpClient with HtmlAgilityPack or AngleSharp, Parallel.ForEachAsync for many pages, and Playwright for JavaScript, tested on .NET 10.
October 12, 2026 · 13 min read
Tutorial
Golang web scraping: net/http, goquery, Colly and chromedp, tested
How to scrape websites in Go: net/http and goquery for pages, Colly for whole sites, chromedp for JavaScript, and the defaults we measured on Go 1.27.2.
October 12, 2026 · 15 min read
Use case
Image scraping: how to download images from a website, and what is allowed
How to download a website's images with Python, tested: what img src misses, srcset and lazy loading, duplicates, robots.txt read the right way, and copyright.
October 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
Java web scraping: jsoup, HttpClient and HtmlUnit, tested
How to scrape websites in Java: jsoup for pages, virtual threads for many pages, HtmlUnit for JavaScript, and the defaults we measured on Java 25.
October 12, 2026 · 12 min read
Tutorial
JavaScript web scraping: fetch, Cheerio and Puppeteer in Node.js
How to scrape with JavaScript in Node.js, tested: fetch and Cheerio for HTML, Puppeteer for script-built pages, garbled text, timeouts and proxies.
October 12, 2026 · 8 min read
Use case
Job scraping: how to collect job postings and which sites allow it
How to collect job postings without breaking a site's rules: what 15 job sites' robots.txt files allow, what Indeed and LinkedIn's terms say, and the public job APIs.
October 12, 2026 · 10 min read
Tutorial
Open source web scrapers: what each project is good for
Which open-source web scraper fits which job: 18 projects with their licenses and releases, and 7 crawlers run with their defaults on a test site of our own.
October 12, 2026 · 12 min read
Tutorial
pandas read_html: scrape HTML tables into DataFrames
How to read HTML tables into pandas DataFrames with read_html, tested on pandas 3.0: picking a table, numbers, links, headers, and the errors you will meet.
October 12, 2026 · 6 min read
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