⚠️ Since August 26, Google routes search result links through /goto redirects, which can break your SERP pipeline even when your proxies work fine. That address can't be decoded locally, and HEAD requests are blocked, so each link needs a full GET. In an existing pipeline, that can show up as: 1️⃣ broken URL extraction 2️⃣ normalization failures 3️⃣ parser errors Of course, you can budget for a hi…

⚠️ Your browser can show the proxy IP while UDP traffic takes a completely different route. WebRTC and HTTP/3 both use UDP. Chrome doesn't use SOCKS5's UDP relay, so configuring SOCKS5 in the browser doesn't route UDP the same way. Three possible outcomes: 🟢 TCP fallback through the proxy: direct UDP blocked, application uses TCP 🔴 Bypassed: UDP exposes the real source IP 🟡 Suppressed: UDP never r…

🤔 Picking a proxy type: the short version Two mismatches we see most often: 1️⃣ Datacenter on a protected target. Uptime may be stable, but the response rate is plummeting. You add IPs, nothing changes. 2️⃣ Residential on a public API. It works, but costs several times more than it needs to. There's also a third mismatch, and it's hard to catch: some targets don't error at all. They return ranking…

🎥 New tutorial: building a web scraper that doesn’t get blocked and holds up at scale using AdsPower × Proxy-Seller. Sites always check two layers: your browser fingerprint and your IP. If you only fix one, the other gives you away. Also, what really bites you at scale is if your profiles share an IP or even a subnet, they get correlated and banned as a batch. A unique fingerprint won't save you. …

On September 15, Cloudflare changes how it treats AI bot traffic by default. Here's what it means for your scraping setup. Starting September 15, new Cloudflare domains block AI bots in the Agent and Training categories by default on ad-supported pages. These categories cover AI crawlers, bots collecting data for model training, or acting as autonomous agents. If you're running AI training crawler…