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Access Challenges

Why requests get blocked and what to do about it: CAPTCHAs, Cloudflare and bot-detection walls, rate limits, geo-restrictions and IP bans.

25 articles

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__cf_bm, _abck, datadome: A Field Guide to Anti-Bot Cookies

Aug 19, 2026 · 8 min read

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CAPTCHA Solver Farms: The Economics and Ethics Nobody Puts in the Docs

Aug 17, 2026 · 8 min read

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The Fingerprint Arms Race: Canvas, WebGL, AudioContext and What Comes Next

Jun 4, 2026 · 7 min read

A ginger cat sitting on mossy cobbles looking up at a white cloud with a heavy iron chain drawn round it and a brass padlock at the front, a dark navy enamel plate hanging against the face of the cloud lettered 1020 in cream, with a rusted iron bollard at the left and fallen leaves on the stones.

Cloudflare Error 1020 Access Denied: Causes and Fixes (2026)

May 25, 2026 · 7 min read

Three cream test cards standing in a row on a pale wooden workbench, each printed with one large inked fingerprint, with three emblems on the plaster wall above them: a camouflage-patterned fox head, a browser window inside a circular arrow, and a smiling theatre mask. A green chameleon stands on the bench holding a magnifying glass up to the middle card, with jars, a shelf of rolled paper, an ink roller and a checked cloth around it.

Camoufox vs. Rebrowser vs. Stock Playwright: A Fingerprint Benchmark

May 5, 2026 · 8 min read

A cartoon spider crouched on a wooden trestle beside a metal case whose front panel carries the green Android robot mark, pulling a steel pin out of the hasp with one leg while the case door stands open, a long punched paper tape spilling out of the case and down across the wet cobbles, and a wooden toolbox lettered FRIDA standing on the ground at the left against a dark plank wall with a coil of rope and a tin bucket.

Frida for Scrapers: SSL Unpinning Android Apps to Extract API Data

Apr 29, 2026 · 9 min read

Two iron gates set in a sandstone wall in front of a tiled cottage, each with a plate fixed to its bars, the left lettered KASADA and the right lettered SHAPE, their barrier arms lowered out across the gravel path from either side with a gap left between their ends, and a cartoon spider stopped on the path under the left arm, with a stone trough, a hanging chain and a lit lantern around them.

Kasada, Shape, and the Next Generation of Anti-Bot: What Scrapers Need to Know

Apr 27, 2026 · 7 min read

A tall smartphone standing in a gap in an iron-railed brick wall, its bright blank screen of empty rounded app tiles left wide open like a gateway, with a ginger tabby cat walking out through it onto the pavement, and to the left along the same wall two older doorways shut and fastened with brass padlocks, with a broken heap of bricks and a wheelbarrow at the left and ivy climbing the railings at the right.

Mobile Is the Last Undefended Frontier (And It Won't Last)

Apr 20, 2026 · 7 min read

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Overcoming Instagram IP Bans: Regain Account Access Now

Apr 16, 2025 · 5 min read

A friendly cartoon spider turns a hand crank on a wooden gear mechanism labeled "cURL", which rotates a computer monitor, a smartphone, and a tablet toward a stone pedestal holding a glowing green circular lens in a courtyard filled with potted plants.

cURL User Agents: Set, Rotate & Test Compatibility

Apr 16, 2025 · 4 min read

A striped cartoon cat holds up a glowing brass key beside a large brass padlock lettered eBay whose shackle hangs sprung open, the cast-iron gate behind it swung wide into a warmly lit stone archway and a rack of spare keys on the wall.

Handling eBay Restrictions with Proxies: Restore Full Access

Apr 9, 2025 · 3 min read

A mole in canvas overalls wheels a wooden handcart along sunlit flagstones past a shoulder-high wall of stacked stone blocks that closes the road, while a copper pipe leaves a brass apparatus lettered Proxifier and arcs over the wall to the road beyond.

Overcome Online Blocks with Proxifier

Mar 29, 2025 · 4 min read

A cartoon spider presses a brass stamp onto one of six cards laid out on a scrubbed oak counter, each card printed with wavy distorted letters crossed by a squiggling line, with a glowing silk web stretched behind the counter above a basket of collected pages.

6 Ways to Handle and Solve CAPTCHAs While Scraping

Mar 29, 2025 · 2 min read

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When Craigslist Blocks You: Effective Tools to Keep Posting

Mar 21, 2025 · 3 min read

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Handling Cloudflare in 2025: Advanced Proxy Strategies

Mar 20, 2025 · 4 min read

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Puppeteer Stealth: Reliable JavaScript Rendering for Scrapers

Mar 18, 2025 · 4 min read

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Navigating IP Bans: Practical Ways to Regain Access

Mar 11, 2025 · 3 min read

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Essential User-Agent Strings for Web Scraping

Feb 23, 2025 · 2 min read

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Fixing Cloudflare 403 Errors: Proxy Tactics That Work

Feb 22, 2025 · 3 min read

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Handling Craigslist Blocks with Proxies & Expanding Your Reach

Feb 21, 2025 · 4 min read

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Boost Web Scraping: Rotating Proxy Networks & IP Rotation

Feb 18, 2025 · 4 min read

Scrape in Python with Undetected ChromeDriver & Proxies

Feb 16, 2025 · 3 min read

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How to Change Your IP Address: Practical Methods

Feb 7, 2025 · 2 min read

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Cloudscraper for Python: Cloudflare Handling & Proxies (2025)

Jan 31, 2025 · 4 min read

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Node-Fetch Proxies: Handle Blocks & Boost Your Web Scraping

Jan 15, 2025 · 5 min read

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