What Are Residential Proxies & How To Use Them?

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Our lives are now permanently lived in the digital realm. Not only do we use the internet for work, but also our personal lives and infact most of what we do is managed online. This means there is a greater need for privacy and keeping our information secure so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. One of the most important tools to help protect your anonymits while browsing the web are proxies - more specifically, residential proxies. These essentially use IP addresses assigned to real devices by ISPS to route your internet traffic through an intermediary server. This then replaces your IP address with a residential one and enhances your privacy when you are online.

Residential proxies are so important and are only going to continue getting more vital with the ever increasing amount of time we spend on the web. Residential proxies have a higher scraping success rate that make them hard to detect and be blocked by sites that have anti-scraping measures installed. They are also useful for tasks requiring a login, social media automation and large-scale data requests as well as having a better city and state-level geographic coverage.

In the below infographic it goes more into detail of what exactly a residential proxy is, how it can benefit you and what it means for the future of your web use. It can also help you learn how to set up a residential proxy and further improve your security when you are online.

Infographic by:understanding residential proxies with ScraperAPI

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