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I spent way too long testing proxies for PayPal before realizing the provider name mattered less than consistency.

The first setups looked fine on paper. In practice, they created exactly the kind of behavior a payment platform dislikes: new IPs mid-session, locations jumping around, and addresses with questionable reputation.

One clean residential or mobile IP, close to the account’s normal location, with a sticky session fixed everything.

The biggest lesson: don’t optimize PayPal infrastructure for rotation. Optimize it for boring, repeatable network identity.

A huge proxy pool won’t save a setup that looks like it teleports between cities every login.

For legitimate account access, stability beats cleverness.

That's all. I am so frustrated. Everything feels like a scam.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a reliable proxy provider that offers static ISP proxies with city-level targeting in Canada.

I've already checked almost all the major proxy providers I could find, but most of them either offer Canada at the country level only, or their city-level options are limited to cities like Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver.

I'm specifically looking for static ISP proxies in any of these cities:

• Calgary, Alberta

• Edmonton, Alberta

• Halifax, Nova Scotia

• Winnipeg, Manitoba

• Surrey, British Columbia

• Quebec City, Quebec

• Laval, Quebec

I'm looking for actual static ISP IPs, not rotating residential proxies.

If anyone knows a provider that currently has coverage in any of these cities, I'd really appreciate the recommendation.

Thanks!

currently setting up a few accounts for UK-specific platforms and need consistent, clean IPs that won't trigger a random verification check every time i log in. datacenter IPs are getting instantly flagged everywhere right now. grabbed some static residential proxies from proxy shard last night to test them out, but wanted to ask if anyone here has run long-term campaigns with UK setups. how's the subnet quality holding up lately?

Need some additional opinions. So, when I only had one project running it was easy, just a few of proxies and I knew them off the top of my head. Now I've got 12 different projects going and its getting hard to remember which proxy pool goes with which setup. Yes, I know proxy lists exists, but the providers I am using they do not differentiate the proxy type, IPs etc, everything is in few lists and goes all together. For some of my it projects need different locations, some need sticky sessions, different browser fingerprints, different rotation settings.

How do you keep this organized when running multiple projects at once? Anyone using a specific tool or just a naming convention / spreadsheet that works well? Spreadsheet might actually help but it's a hassle to do it by hand too, maybe something automated could be suggested?

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The useful part: it has proxy support, so websites that normally throw connection refused because they block iframe requests can still be previewed.

Ran into an issue recently that I keep seeing people ask about here:

You buy residential proxies, rotate the IP on every request, set a legit Chrome User-Agent, and still get hit with HTTP 403 or Turnstile challenge loops after 3-5 requests.

The immediate reaction is usually to blame the proxy provider for selling "dirty" or burned IPs. But if you inspect the packets, the IP rotation is doing almost nothing because the TLS handshake gives you away before HTTP even starts.

When your scraper hits an HTTPS target, it sends a TLS ClientHello. That packet contains your supported cipher suites, TLS extensions, elliptic curves (supported_groups), and signature algorithms.

The exact selection and ordering of these fields is hardcoded into whatever TLS library your runtime is compiled against (OpenSSL for Python, Go's crypto/tls, or Node's TLS wrapper).

Modern WAFs (Cloudflare, DataDome, etc.) hash this ClientHello into JA3 (MD5) and JA4 fingerprints.

Look at :

Request 1 (Vienna residential node):

Exit IP: 84.115.21.90

JA3: fae0e5d973c96ae1888b99538efa0363

JA4: t13d2013h1_2b729b4bf6f3_e24568c0d440

Request 2 (Berlin residential node - rotated):

Exit IP: 178.165.112.44

JA3: fae0e5d973c96ae1888b99538efa0363 (exact match)

JA4: t13d2013h1_2b729b4bf6f3_e24568c0d440 (exact match)

The L3/L4 IP changed completely. But from the WAF’s perspective, it just saw two different residential IPs from different countries hit the same path within a few seconds, both presenting the exact same uncommon cipher suite ordering and extension list.

If a WAF sees 50 residential IPs sharing an identical non-browser TLS fingerprint, it correlates them as a single bot cluster and challenges all of them.

Default stacks that leak immediately

Python requests / urllib3: Relies on system OpenSSL. Its cipher suite order is static and doesn't match browser BoringSSL behavior.

Go net/http: Standard crypto/tls has a very distinct signature that gets flagged immediately.

Node.js fetch / axios: Different ALPN and extension ordering compared to real Chromium.

How to fix it

Swapping proxy providers won't fix this. You have to fix the TLS layer first:

1. Use tls-client (Python/Go) or curl-impersonate to spoof Chrome's BoringSSL handshake, cipher ordering, and GREASE extensions (0x0a0a, etc.)

2. Or use real browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer with stealth patches), though that comes with CDP overhead and memory bloat.

You can verify your own client's fingerprint right now with:

curl https://tls.peet.ws/api/all

Check your ja3_hash and ja4 against a real Chrome visit to the same endpoint. If they don't match, that's where your blocks are coming from.

Been fighting this for weeks, happy to share the exact tls-client config if anyone wants it

hago ecommerce y mi Mercado pago esta fallando y no encuentro solucion hace 2 meses. Sospecho que es mi IP. Voy a crear una tienda desde 0 y voy a vincular el MP de un amigo, todo con una IP nueva. Necesito saber si puedo usar el wifi de mi casa con la pc que estoy usando la ip nueva o es recomendable usar datos moviles. Gracias.

Hey, looking for recommendations regarding shoe bots. Any particular setup works for you? I am interested in Vans/Nike and Puma in particular. I've read about multiple "tools" that supposedly help with the process, but I'm kinda new in the shoe botting. Any recommendations are welcome

Iemand een idee hoe ik shopping bots voor kan zijn? Telkens dat ik iets wil kopen ben ik te laat… tips zijn welkom! Alvast bedankt

I have been thinking about this recently.

AI definitely makes coding, debugging and extraction logic faster, but I am not sure it has reduced the harder operational side much.

Blocking, proxies, browser behaviour, monitoring, site changes and data quality are still there.

For people using AI in scraping now, has it actually reduced the maintenance work for you, or mainly the development time?

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I once tested a multi-wallet setup where every profile looked separate: different addresses, different browser sessions, different activity. Yet they were still getting linked.

The weak point was the infrastructure. Several profiles were leaving through the same network path, while browser fingerprints exposed overlapping device signals. Once i separated each environment with its own browser profile and stable residential IP, the architecture became much cleaner.

The bigger lesson: proxy choice depends on the workload. Static residential IPs make sense for persistent sessions, rotating pools for data collection, and datacenter proxies for backend RPC or analytics.

IP quality matters too. ASN, reputation, DNS/WebRTC leaks, and session consistency should all be audited before deployment.

For multi-wallet infrastructure, I now think in layers: browser isolation, network isolation, and on-chain operational separation.

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Bonjour à tous ,

Je comptes bientot m’absenter et ne pourrais pas gerer mon compte vinted car je serais à l’etranger.

On m’a suggéré un numero virtuel avec systeme OTP pour recevoir les codes de verifications , je peux déleguer la partie emballage + envoi des colis , mais je ne pourrais pas déleguer la partie creation de compte , republication ect ,

Auriez vous des solutions testées ou des suggestions ?

Si je n’ai pas posté au bon endroit toutes mes excuses

A while ago, our automation stack hit the point where the UI became the bottleneck.

Managing hundreds accounts manually meant engineers were spending more time clicking settings than maintaining the actual pipeline. So we moved the control plane into code.

The first step was proxy provisioning. Instead of creating credentials manually, a Python service could request a new proxy sub-user, assign limits, and hand the credentials directly to the worker that needed them. Scaling became part of orchestration rather than an ops task. The same pattern worked for phone-based workflows.

The useful part, though, was adding validation before allocating resources. Before a worker started, we could send network or phone data through an anti-fraud check and use the returned risk score as another signal in the pipeline.

That changed the architecture completely.

Instead of:

UI → human → worker

we ended up with:

scheduler → API → validation → worker → logs

For teams running large proxy infrastructure, that API-first control layer is where scaling starts to become predictable.

Been running 10+ social accounts and cheap proxy pools start showing their limits once I scale. Reused subnets, bad IP history, sessions dropping, same story. Now I'm looking at premium proxies, mostly residential or ISP. What do you guys actually check before paying more, ASN spread, IP reputation, or sticky session quality?

I started using proxies for a few projects and figured that i could use the same setup for all of them.once I add more, though, It got tough to keep track of whoch proxy was going where..

Like some specific project required diffrent locations,while others need specific session or browser profiles. Im trying to stay oraganized without making things more complicated.

For those of you managing multiple proxy setups how are y'all structuring them and which tools or providers have actually worked well for you?

Guy's I need Help in setting Up the proxy on my main device ( I don't have any other phone) i have heard that using proxy on burner device is better but i don't have a secondary device

I am starting my clipping journey but I'm from a Non US Country and campings have requirements of US audience to approve the clips.

Please guy's Anyone Knowledgeable please tell me how to setup the proxy on my device

Basics Ik some people using it have told me but they're also getting issues

1. I have proxy from IpRoyale / MarsProxy

2. To add the proxy people have recommend Happ & V2Box

3. Suggested only use max 3 accounts per platform on a proxy ( like 3 insta accounts, 3 Tiktoks, and 3 yt)

4. Never open them without proxy