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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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Akamai

Akamai Bot Manager protection

One 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.

Anti-bot

antibot system protection

Software 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).

B

Bot score

fraud score protection

A numeric anti-bot rating — how bot-like a request looks (0-100, higher = more suspicious). Services such as IPQS expose a bot score for any given IP.

C

Cloudflare

protection

The most widespread anti-bot and CDN. Protects ~25% of the internet. Several tiers: Cloudflare WAF (regular), Bot Management (paid), Turnstile (the new captcha as of 2024).

D

Datacenter proxy

type

Proxies with IPs from server centres (AWS, Hetzner, OVH). Cheapest ($0.5-2/GB) and fastest, but easily detected by anti-bot systems via the ASN.

Datadome

protection

One of the toughest anti-bot services — focuses on TLS fingerprinting (JA3) and behavioural analysis. Even premium residential delivers 50-80% success rate.

F

Fingerprint

browser fingerprint protection

The combination of ~30-50 parameters that identify your browser: Canvas, WebGL, AudioContext, fonts, timezone, screen resolution. Used by anti-bot systems to track you across sessions even from different IPs.

R

Residential proxy