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How to choose a proxy provider in 2026
Pool size is a vanity metric. Here is the shortlist of signals that actually predict whether your crawls will work.
Practical walkthroughs.
Pool size is a vanity metric. Here is the shortlist of signals that actually predict whether your crawls will work.
When the cheap option is genuinely fine, and when it will quietly waste your budget in retries.
Session length, rotation policy and the header hygiene that makes them hold.
Timezone, WebRTC and DNS mismatches are the most common causes of account linkage.
Per-request, sticky and hybrid rotation, with the failure modes of each.
They solve different problems. Most teams that need one do not need the other.