Website Categorization Explained
How content classification works, why categories affect ad placement and filtering, how misclassification happens, and how to verify a category locally.
by LightningBytes Team
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TLS Fingerprinting and Scraping
Your TLS and HTTP/2 handshakes identify your client regardless of headers. How the technique works, why libraries look unlike browsers, and the fix.
by LightningBytes Team
Proxy Authentication: Methods and Best Practices
Username and password or IP allowlisting, how credentials travel, and how to tell a proxy authentication failure from a target-side block or a bad address.
by LightningBytes Team
Are Free Proxies Safe? What You're Actually Trading Away
Free proxies are paid for. Covers interception, injection and traffic resale, how to spot a proxy reading traffic, and what a real free tier looks like.
by LightningBytes Team
What Is an Open Proxy (and Why to Avoid It)
Open proxies are misconfigured relays anyone can use, which is why they get abused. How they work, what they cost you, and what to use instead.
by LightningBytes Team
Transparent, Anonymous, and Elite Proxies
Proxy anonymity levels describe what a proxy reveals about you, not how good it is. Here is what transparent, anonymous and elite actually mean in practice.
by LightningBytes Team
HTTP vs HTTPS Proxies Explained
An HTTPS proxy does not mean what most people assume. This explains CONNECT tunnelling, when a proxy can read your traffic, and how to check what yours does.
by LightningBytes Team
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