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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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Rate limit

protection
A cap on requests from a single IP per period (typically 60-1000/min). Going over gets you HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. Mitigation: rotate IPs or throttle on your side.
See also: rotation 429

Residential proxy

type
Proxies through IPs of real home users (Comcast, Vodafone, BT). High trust score against anti-bot. Pricing $1.40-10/GB. The standard for scraping and SEO monitoring.
See also: datacenter isp

Rotation

feature
Changing the IP between requests or on a timer. Rotating: a new IP every request. Sticky: the same IP for a session (10-1440 minutes).
See also: sticky-session api-rotation