residential proxy
A request relayed through a consumer ISP address so that it is indistinguishable, at the network layer, from a person at home. It defeats ASN blocking and it defeats feed verification, because the address is in nobody's operator feed and belongs to nobody's data centre.
What residential proxy does not show
Any forged-crawler rate computed against operator feeds is therefore a floor: the forgeries that used residential addresses were never counted, and no server-side method can count them.
Where residential proxy comes up on this site
- Web scraping APIs compared: the real cost per pageResidential proxy bandwidth.
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Questions about residential proxy
What is residential proxy?
A request relayed through a consumer ISP address so that it is indistinguishable, at the network layer, from a person at home. It defeats ASN blocking and it defeats feed verification, because the address is in nobody's operator feed and belongs to nobody's data centre.
What does residential proxy not show or guarantee?
Any forged-crawler rate computed against operator feeds is therefore a floor: the forgeries that used residential addresses were never counted, and no server-side method can count them.
Which area of the glossary does residential proxy belong to?
Crawlers and access: Who is fetching, whether they are who they claim, and what your rules actually permit.
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