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Telegram MTProto Proxy: How It Works and How to Use One
Telegram supports its own proxy type, MTProto, designed to keep the app reachable where it is blocked. This guide explains what an MTProto proxy is, how it differs from a normal SOCKS5 proxy, how to add one, and how it relates to running your own.
Read →WhatsApp Proxy: How the Built-In Feature Works
Since 2023 WhatsApp has a built-in proxy feature that keeps you connected when the service is blocked. This guide explains what it does, what it does not protect, how to enter a proxy address, and how you can host your own.
Read →YouTube Unblocked: Proxy vs VPN vs Mirror
When YouTube is blocked or throttled, three approaches come up: a web proxy, a VPN, and mirror sites. They are not equal. This guide compares them honestly for reliability, speed and privacy, and explains which suits video.
Read →Discord Proxy and VPN: Fixing ISP Blocks and IP Bans
Discord gets blocked on school, work and some national networks, and Discord itself can IP-ban. A proxy or VPN can help with a network block, but an account ban is a different problem. This guide separates the two honestly and shows what each tool can and cannot do.
Read →Bypassing DPI: Obfuscation, Shadowsocks, V2Ray and Reality
Deep packet inspection can identify and block standard VPN protocols like WireGuard and OpenVPN. Getting through it means disguising your traffic so it looks like something the censor allows. This guide explains DPI and the main obfuscation tools — Shadowsocks, V2Ray/XRay, and VLESS+Reality — factually and without hype.
Read →Shadowsocks Setup Guide: Server and Clients
Shadowsocks is a lightweight encrypted proxy designed to slip past network filtering. This guide walks through installing a server on a VPS, configuring it securely, and connecting clients — with honest notes on modern DPI and where it fits.
Read →VLESS + Reality: A Complete Setup Guide
VLESS+Reality is currently one of the most resilient ways to tunnel through deep packet inspection, because it borrows the TLS handshake of a real website instead of presenting its own. This guide explains how Reality works and how to set up an XRay server and client, with honest caveats.
Read →DNS over HTTPS and TLS: Setup in Every Browser and OS
Plain DNS is unencrypted, so your ISP and anyone on the path can see every domain you look up — even over HTTPS. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT) encrypt those lookups. This guide explains the difference and how to enable them across browsers and operating systems.
Read →GeoIP Databases Compared: MaxMind, IP2Location and ipinfo
IP geolocation databases map addresses to countries, cities and networks — and they disagree, because none of them truly "know" where an IP is. This guide compares the major providers, explains how they work, and sets honest expectations about accuracy.
Read →How to Hide Your IP Address: 6 Methods Ranked
Your IP address reveals your rough location and ISP and ties your activity together across sites. Several tools can hide it, but they are not equal in reliability, coverage or privacy. Here are six methods ranked honestly, from strongest to weakest.
Read →Static vs Rotating Proxies: A Decision Framework
Should each request use a fresh IP, or should you keep the same address for a whole session? "Static vs rotating" is one of the most common proxy decisions, and the right answer depends entirely on the job. This guide gives you a clear framework instead of a one-size-fits-all rule.
Read →Proxychains: How to Chain SOCKS5 Proxies
proxychains-ng forces any command-line program through one or more proxies, even tools that have no proxy option of their own. This guide shows how to install it, configure a SOCKS5 proxy, chain multiple hops, and avoid the classic DNS-leak mistake.
Read →MTU, Fragmentation and Why Your WireGuard Is Slow
If your WireGuard tunnel connects but crawls, stalls on large transfers, or hangs on certain sites, the usual culprit is MTU. This guide explains what MTU and fragmentation are, why tunnels break packet sizes, and the exact setting to change.
Read →IPv6 Proxies: Cheap but Useless? Where They Actually Work
IPv6 proxies are dramatically cheaper than IPv4 because IPv6 addresses are effectively unlimited. But cheap does not mean useful — an IPv6 proxy only works if your target speaks IPv6. This guide gives an honest breakdown of where IPv6 proxies help and where they fall flat.
Read →What Is a Transparent Proxy? Detection and Risks
A transparent proxy intercepts your traffic without you configuring anything — and often without you knowing. This guide explains how transparent proxies work, why networks deploy them, how to detect one, and the privacy risks they pose.
Read →Forward vs Reverse Proxy: What's the Difference?
Both are called "proxy", but a forward proxy and a reverse proxy sit on opposite sides of the conversation and serve opposite parties. This guide explains the difference with a clear mental model, real examples, and a side-by-side comparison.
Read →The HTTP CONNECT Method Explained
CONNECT is the HTTP method that makes HTTPS work through a proxy. Instead of fetching a page, it asks the proxy to open a raw tunnel to a destination so encrypted traffic can pass through untouched. This guide explains how CONNECT works, step by step.
Read →SOCKS5 Authentication Methods (RFC 1929)
Before a SOCKS5 proxy relays your traffic it negotiates how to authenticate you. This guide walks through the SOCKS5 method-negotiation handshake from RFC 1928, the username/password scheme from RFC 1929, and what it means in practice — including the plaintext caveat.
Read →Web scraping with Python requests and proxies
A practical scraping workflow built on requests and BeautifulSoup, routed through an authenticated proxy so your origin IP stays hidden and your crawler survives rate limits. Full runnable code included.
Read →How to use proxies with Scrapy
Scrapy routes every request through a proxy in one of three ways: a per-request meta key, an environment variable, or a rotating downloader middleware. Here is each, with working code for authenticated s4m proxies.
Read →Puppeteer proxy setup with authentication
Puppeteer takes the proxy server as a launch flag, but the username and password go somewhere else entirely — through page.authenticate(). Here is the correct pattern for authenticated s4m proxies, with full Node code.
Read →Playwright proxy configuration guide
Playwright makes proxies first-class: one proxy object with server, username and password, set at the browser or the context level. Here is the clean setup for authenticated s4m proxies in both Python and Node.
Read →Selenium proxy setup in Python and Java
Selenium can route a browser through a proxy in a couple of lines — but authenticated proxies need an extension or an outbound helper, because Chrome will not take USER:PASS on the command line. Here is the reliable pattern.
Read →curl with a SOCKS5 proxy: the complete reference
The definitive curl-and-proxy reference: SOCKS5 vs SOCKS5h, the -x and --socks5-hostname flags, environment variables, a persistent .curlrc, and authenticated s4m endpoints. Copy-paste ready.
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