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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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Carrier-grade NAT

CGN, CGNAT network
A technology where a mobile operator allocates a single public IP to hundreds or thousands of subscribers. That's why mobile proxies are nearly impossible to ban — banning the IP would block thousands of real users. The key advantage of mobile proxies.
See also: mobile shared-ip

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NAT

Network Address Translation network
Translation of private IPs into a public one. CGN is the extreme version, where a single public IP is shared between thousands of subscribers.
See also: cgn