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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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Gateway

technical
An entry-point server for a proxy pool. You connect to the gateway, which routes traffic through an appropriate IP from the pool.
See also: endpoint backconnect

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation legal
The EU regulation on personal data protection. If your scraping collects PII (names, emails, photos), you become a data controller with a full set of obligations. Fines up to €20M or 4% of revenue.
See also: compliance pii

Geo-targeting

feature
The ability to choose the country/city for the exit IP. Minimum precision: country (every provider). Mid: city, ASN (top 10). Maximum: ZIP code (Bright Data, GeoSurf).
See also: rare-geo asn