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potamic
14 days ago
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An update on residential proxies and the scraper s...
I doubt they are doing it. You just have to get on a VPN to and see yourself being flooded with captchas despite browsing the web like a normal human and solving dozens of captchas along the way.
alightsoul
14 days ago
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I guess that raises the bot score given that the vpn IP is a data Center IP and thus in a lot of ban lists
acdha
13 days ago
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Also some of the free VPN apps support themselves by proxying this kind of traffic:
https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/what-is-wrong-with-free-vpn-s...
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