Glossary · Scraping & automation
Geo-blocking
Restricting or changing what a site shows based on the visitor's inferred country, which a proxy in the target country is meant to bypass.
Geo-blocking is a site deciding what you may see from where you appear to be. Sometimes it is a hard wall, content unavailable in your country, and sometimes it is a quieter substitution: different prices, a different catalogue, a different language, keyed to the location it reads from your IP address.
Because that decision runs off your visible address, an exit in the target country is the direct answer. Route through a genuine local IP and the site serves you what it serves a local, which is the whole reason location-specific proxies exist.
The caveat worth stating is that the country is only necessary, not always sufficient. Some sites layer other checks on top, a local IP that still fails a bot test or a payment-region check will not get through, so geo-blocking is best understood as one gate among several rather than the only one.
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