Proxy Basics

In the world of proxies you come across various types of servers that vary by their functionality and methods of data transfer. If we consider proxies by location, then we have residential and datacenter servers. And by the type of operation proxies can be rotating or static. But when you see HTTPS or SSL proxies you should know that here the name refers to the protocol of the proxy server. 

With over 4 billion million users worldwide, social media platforms have become a lucrative data tidbit for market analysts, recruitment executives and business owners around the planet. This fact dramatically increased the popularity of all types of data scraping on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin: bots and automated scrapers crawl the social media for geo-targeted info on businesses, prospect candidates, customers and decision makers in all possible areas. But is it all legal in the first place? And how can you maintain ethical standards while automating your process of gathering publicly available data from social media platforms? 

All popular search engines like Google or Bing have one thing in common: they want to provide search results to humans not robots. And, whenever you want to engage in scraping the search engine results with a proxy, you will have a certain risk of getting banned or facing Captcha. 

Imagine you are one day before the finale of your favorite show on Hulu and you get an assignment to go across the border on a business trip but cannot wait to enjoy the episode you were so longing to watch. Oops, unlucky for you, the service is not available outside the US and your weekend can be completely ruined. Fortunately there are a few ways to solve this problem for you involving digital aides like anonymous proxies Hulu supports and VPNs with US-based servers. 

ScrapeBox is a must-have tool for all those involved in SEO related activities. It claims to be the “Swiss Army Knife of SEO experts” and deservingly so.

This Proxifier setup guide will teach you how to use our proxies for Diablo 2 and similar online games. We at PrivateProxy understand how painful it can be to use free, glitchy proxies for these purposes.

In this guide to SOCKS5 proxy we will cover the details of functionality and features of SOCKS5 Proxy Server. We will answer the question “what are SOCKS5 proxies?” and describe the most common use cases of this particular type of proxy protocol, underlining its benefits over using VPNs and other types of proxies.