Communications manager at Proxidize, enthusiastic about web data, proxies, and automation. He uses his background in journalism and digital marketing to make the complex simple and the technical relatable.
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If you’ve ever manually checked where your site ranks for a keyword, you know the drill. Open Ahrefs, type the keyword in, note the position, maybe copy it into a spreadsheet. It works when you’re watching 20 keywords. It stops working the moment that list hits a few hundred, and it completely falls apart at a few thousand.
Read articleBrowser fingerprinting is a powerful technique that websites use to identify users by collecting a variety of data points, such as fonts, screen resolution, time zone, plugins, audio setup, and overall configuration.
Read articleMeta’s Llama 3 was pre-trained on over 15 trillion tokens of web-crawled data. Llama 4, released in April 2025, more than doubled that to over 30 trillion tokens of multimodal content (with individual models ranging from 22 to 40 trillion tokens depending on the variant). Common Crawl’s March 2026 archive alone, one month of one nonprofit’s crawling, contained 1.97 billion pages and 344.64 TiB of uncompressed content. The actual volumes that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google collect internally are almost certainly larger.
Read articleThe scraper works fine. It always works fine on the first few hundred requests. Then the responses start coming back empty. The HTML is there, the status code says 200, the page loads normally in a browser. Your scraper is pulling back nothing, or worse, it’s pulling back a CAPTCHA page that looks nothing like the data you expected.
Read articleAPIs didn’t pop up overnight; they’ve been around for a while, quietly doing the “boring” work that keeps the internet stitched together. What’s changed is that people outside of engineering circles are finally stumbling upon the term and wondering what it even means.
Read articleWeb scraping used to be a pretty binary situation, either you knew how to write code, or you just weren’t scraping at all. If you lucked out, you’d end up with a duct-taped together script that worked until the website you were scraping sneezed and changed a div. Then it broke, again.
Read articleManaging proxies in Chrome has never been pleasant. Google keeps burying the settings deeper, system-level proxy changes can break other tools running on the same machine, and nobody wants to dig through network menus every time they need a different IP. That’s the gap Proxy Switcher fills.
Read articleThere used to be a long list of “solid” Chrome extensions that promised to make proxy management easier that disappeared faster than a free VPN trial. Proxy SwitchyOmega is one of those that managed to stick around (well, that’s both true and false). A popular proxy manager for devs, scrapers, and network testers — essentially anyone who actually needs control or just doesn’t like digging through Chrome’s settings every time they switch IPs.
Read articleWanting to buy Instagram accounts isn’t as secretive and taboo as it used to be. What was once a thing you’d occasionally stumble upon on sketchy forum sites (and the occasional Reddit post) now has evolved into something more attainable and common, creating a sort of niche mini-economical marketplace. Whether it’s travel, memes, cuisine, or even those weirdly specific “coffee and cats” pages, if it has a pulse and a following, someone, somewhere, is probably trying to sell it.
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