Akamai
Akamai Bot Manager protectionOne of the strictest anti-bot systems out there. Protects banking, corporate sites and parts of e-commerce. Even premium residential typically delivers a 65-80% success rate against Akamai.
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Glossary of proxy and scraping terms
Industry jargon explained in plain English: residential, ASN, fingerprint, KYC, sticky session, CGN, JA3, anti-detect and ~50 more. Useful for newcomers and for anyone talking to a provider's support team.
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Anti-bot
antibot system protectionSoftware systems that detect automated traffic: Cloudflare, Akamai, PerimeterX, Datadome, Imperva. They analyse headers, fingerprints, TLS handshakes, behavioural patterns. The harsher the anti-bot, the more expensive the proxy you need (residential/mobile instead of datacenter).
Anti-detect browser
toolingA specialised browser that builds a unique browser fingerprint per profile — Multilogin, Dolphin Anty, Adspower, GoLogin. Used for multi-account work in combination with mobile proxies.
API rotation
technicalChanging the IP address by calling a separate API endpoint (rather than rotating on a timer or per request). Lets you rotate programmatically — for example on receipt of an HTTP 429.
ASN
Autonomous System Number networkA unique identifier for a network on the internet (e.g.
AS16509 for Amazon AWS, AS6939 for Hurricane Electric). Anti-bot systems look at the ASN of an IP: if it belongs to a data centre, that's a bot signal. Residential ASNs (Comcast, Vodafone, BT) look natural.