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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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iGaming

industry
Online casinos, bookmakers and lotteries. The hardest vertical for proxies because of strict anti-fraud. Most enterprise providers block these use-cases at KYC.
See also: kyc tolerance

IP pool

technical
Total number of unique IPs available from a provider. Marketing numbers: Bright Data 150M+, Decodo 125M+, SOAX 191M+. The real pool for any specific geo is always smaller.
See also: residential rotation

IPv4 / IPv6

technical
Two versions of the internet protocol. IPv4 is the standard, scarce (~4.3 billion addresses). IPv6 has effectively unlimited addresses but less anti-bot support (often cheaper for scraping).
See also: datacenter asn

ISP proxy

Static residential type
A residential and datacenter hybrid: IPs belong to real ISPs but are hosted in data centres. Fast like datacenter, looks like residential. Sold per IP rather than per GB.
See also: residential datacenter