Residential proxy

A residential proxy exits through a connection assigned by a consumer internet service provider — the kind of address a person browsing from home has. That provenance is the product: an address registered to a broadband ISP in the city an account claims to live in is the least interesting thing a site can see, whereas an address on a hosting range is a fact the site will weigh. Pools are usually metered and priced by the gigabyte, and a media-heavy site burns more of that than people expect.

For account work this is normally the right purchase, with two things to check. Buy sticky sessions rather than a rotating endpoint, because a session whose address changes mid-scroll looks like a hijacked one. And verify what you actually bought: pools sold as residential that answer from a hosting range are common enough to be worth checking rather than trusting. Argus health-checks every proxy in the library for egress IP, country and latency, flags an exit sitting on a datacenter network and names the provider behind it, and blocks a launch rather than falling back to your own connection when a check fails. The proxies page is the buyer's guide.