Proxy Guides and Product News

Guides

How to Monitor Competitor Prices Across Countries

What to track, how to automate it and how to validate local offers with country-targeted proxies before you reprice.

Guides

How to Set Up a Proxy in BitBrowser with Nefo

Pair each BitBrowser profile with its own Nefo IP: which IP type to pick, the exact host, ports and username format, and what to check first.

Guides

How to Solve reCAPTCHA While Scraping with Python

Keep one sticky residential IP, solve reCAPTCHA v2 with CaptchaAI and submit the token from the same IP, with full Python code.

How to Test Your Website From Other Countries

Five ways to check what visitors in other countries see, plus a QA checklist for pricing, checkout, redirects, search and ads.

Where Do Residential Proxy IPs Come From?

How residential proxy IPs are sourced, what ethical consent means, how to check an IP is really residential and what to ask providers.

SOCKS5 vs SOCKS5h: Why DNS Matters for Proxies

SOCKS5h resolves domain names through the proxy; SOCKS5 resolves them locally. How to set each up in curl, Python and browsers and check for leaks.

Where Do Static ISP Proxies Come From?

How static ISP proxies are sourced and hosted, how they differ from residential and datacenter IPs, and the honest limits of the type.

What Is a Proxy Server and Why Use One?

What a proxy server is, how it works, the main types (residential, mobile, datacenter, static), common uses and when not to use one.

SOCKS5 vs HTTP Proxy: Which Should You Use?

How SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies differ in traffic types, UDP, auth and compatibility, with setup examples and a simple rule for choosing.

Guides

How to Scrape eBay: A Python eBay Scraper Guide

Create a lawful eBay scraper in Python: what data is public, how to handle blocks and pagination, and which proxy type to use.

Guides

How to Scrape Amazon Product Data With Python

A step-by-step Python tutorial for lawful Amazon product scraping: requests, parsing, anti-bot handling and proxy choice.

Proxy Basics

Why Are Mobile Proxies Hard to Detect?

How carrier-grade NAT, real carrier metadata and IP rotation make mobile proxy IPs hard for sites to flag, and what it costs.

Nefo Adds 4G/5G Mobile Proxies

Real 4G/5G carrier IPs with free unlimited switching and a host:port that never changes, from $30 per 30 days.

Proxy Basics

Mobile vs Residential Proxies: Which Should You Choose?

Compare 4G/5G mobile and residential proxies by IP source, trust, coverage, billing and price, and choose by task.

City and ISP Targeting Expansion for Residential Proxies

Full state and city lists, ISP/ASN search and a faster picker in the proxy generator, plus a fix for state targeting.

Guides

Sticky Sessions Explained: How Sticky Proxies Work

A sticky session keeps one residential IP for 1 minute to 24 hours so logins and checkouts stay consistent. Rotating gives a new IP per request.

Proxy Basics

Residential vs Datacenter Proxies: Which Should You Choose?

How residential and datacenter proxies differ in IP origin, speed and cost, and which to choose for your task.

Compliance

Safe and Acceptable Proxy Use Cases

Legitimate proxy use cases, from price monitoring to ad verification, and the clear line on what is never allowed.

Proxy Basics

What Are Residential Proxies? A Plain-English Guide

Residential proxies explained: real ISP-assigned home IPs, how requests are routed, rotating vs sticky sessions and common lawful uses.

Guides

Why Small Proxy Bandwidth Plans Matter

Start with a small pay-per-GB plan, measure real usage, then scale. How to estimate proxy bandwidth and avoid paying for GB you never use.