Residential proxy

It is bought to look like a person at home rather than a machine in a rack. What you rent is somebody else's connection, and the meter runs on traffic rather than on time.

A residential proxy is an exit address on an ordinary household internet line, rented out through the provider that serves it.

Where the address sits

Every block of addresses is registered to an organisation and that registration is public. A block belonging to a consumer internet provider reads as a household line.

Traffic from a residential proxy leaves through a real subscriber connection. That is what the label describes and the whole of what it describes.

The owner of the block
A public record naming the provider. This is the part a platform can look up in a moment.
The country and the city
Read from the same records and from measurement. It has to agree with the clock and the language of the session.
The history of the address
What this exact address did before you arrived. It is invisible to you and visible to a large platform.

How sellers price it

The supply is somebody else's line, so the seller pays for every byte that crosses it and the meter counts bytes rather than hours.

Rotating pool
A fresh address per request or on a short timer. It suits collecting public data and breaks a session you are signed in to.
Sticky session
One address held for a window the seller sets, usually minutes. This is the shape an account needs.
Metered by traffic
A heavy page costs more than a light one, so images and video are the part of the bill people underestimate.

What a platform reads

A platform looks up who owns the block, and then looks at how this exact address behaved before you arrived.

The second half is about the address rather than about its class. A household line that carried an attack last month brings that history into your session.

Using one in a profile

A line from a seller becomes a library entry in one paste, and as many profiles as you like link to that entry. Each profile also keeps its own copy of the connection, so removing a row never quietly leaves a working profile without an exit.

The exit country is asked through the address itself over an encrypted connection, and it decides the timezone and the language list the profile reports.

The password stays out of the launch line

Residential traffic is sold by the gigabyte, and a launch line is readable by every process running under your account. The password goes instead to a small relay on loopback that holds it in memory and presents it to the proxy.

Often confused with

Datacenter proxy
An address from a hosting network. Cheaper, faster and openly a machine rather than a home.
ISP proxy
A consumer registration on a machine in a rack. Static and sold per address rather than per gigabyte.
Mobile proxy
A carrier address shared at the same moment with real phones.
VPN
One address for the whole computer. A profile browser needs one exit per profile instead.

What this does not do

It does not make an address trusted. Reputation follows the individual address and its history rather than the kind of network it sits on.
It does not tell you what you bought. The app stores the label you typed, and a check names the exit country rather than the type of network.
It does not repair the rest of the identity. A household address with a clock from another country is a contradiction that gets read before anything else.
We do not sell proxies. The provider directory inside the app records an intent, takes no payment, and puts nothing into your library by itself.

Check it

Everything said above about the product is held by a file and by a stand you can run.

What a saved address holds and what a profile keeps: apps/desktop/src/lib/proxies.js · apps/desktop/test/proxy-library.js
The exit country is asked through the address itself: apps/desktop/src/lib/exitGeo.js · apps/desktop/test/exit-geo.js
The password reaches the proxy without the launch line: apps/desktop/src/lib/proxyAuthBridge.js · apps/desktop/test/прокси-с-паролем-живьём.js
An order in the provider directory takes no payment: apps/server/src/proxy-store/proxy-store.service.ts · apps/server/test/proxy-orders.js

Questions

Is a residential address safer than a datacenter one?: It is less unusual on sight and several times dearer per gigabyte. What a platform does with it still depends on that address and on what the account does.
Why is it billed by traffic?: The supply is a real subscriber line and the seller pays for everything that crosses it. That cost is what the meter passes on to you.
Can two profiles share one residential address?: They can, and a platform reads two accounts leaving through one address as one person. One entry per profile is the reason the library exists.
Does the address change the profile clock?: The exit country does. It is measured through the address itself, and the profile takes its timezone and its languages from that answer.

Next to this

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Paste a seller list once, link a profile to an entry, and see which country the address answers from.

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