Residential Proxy

Beginner

A proxy that routes traffic through a real home IP assigned by an ISP.

In depth

Residential proxies use IP addresses issued by Internet Service Providers to real households. Because the traffic appears to come from genuine consumer devices, these proxies are far harder for websites to detect or block than datacenter IPs.

Examples

  • Scraping a retailer that blocks datacenter IPs
  • Verifying localized ads in a specific city

Common use cases

Web scrapingAd verificationSneaker copping

FAQs

Yes, when sourced ethically and used for permitted purposes like public-data scraping.

Related terms

Datacenter ProxyRotating ProxySOCKS5