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How NOT to detect residential proxies

A new technical blog post examines common but flawed methods for detecting residential proxies, the techniques often used to mask automated traffic by routing it through ordinary home IP addresses. The article walks through detection approaches that fail in practice and explains why, drawing attention from developers and security engineers debating how sites should separate real users from bots.

Why now: Developers and anti-fraud engineers are debating proxy detection methods, a topic central to bot mitigation and web scraping battles.

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