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What to Do If Craigslist IP Blocked You

Craigslist is a great platform to post ads on many brand categories, which has benefited users immensely across the globe. However, when you post on Craigslist, you must abide by their terms and conditions so that Craigslist doesn’t block you from accessing it through your IP address or block your account. So firstly, we will

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What is Browser Fingerprinting and How to Avoid It?

When browsing the internet, privacy should be your primary concern. As you’re already aware, websites employ various mechanisms to track your online identity; include recording your IP address, storing cookies on your browser, HTML 5 Canvas to name a few. You can easily mask your online identity by using proxies or deleting cookies on your

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Web Scraping Solutions for Cybersecurity

This article is about the use of web scraping solutions for cybersecurity for your business. Cybersecurity attacks are escalating daily despite the countermeasures that cybersecurity firms employ to combat them. In fact, according to recent research, the number of stolen and exposed credentials has risen 300%. Therefore cybersecurity firms are exploring new anti-breaching mechanisms to

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How to scrape Google search result pages (SERPs)

It needs no introduction that Google is the widely used platform for search-related queries of people across the globe. According to the Statista website, Google’s share of the global search market is 87.35%. Further, the stats have shown that Google exceeds 2 trillion users annually, indexing over 130 trillion pages.  These statistics prove that Google

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How To Scrape Emails From LinkedIn

LinkedIn provides the perfect social networking platform for professionals with 660 million users out of 303 million active monthly users. So If you haven’t already created a LinkedIn account, do it today. You can rub elbows with industry giants. In this article, we’ll talk about how to scrape emails from LinkedIn accounts. Often you may

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Guide To Using The Best Twitter Proxies For Twitter Tools

Twitter is an engaging social media platform with 330 active million users and 500 million tweets sent every day. Imagine the excitement that you would get if any of these tweets included your brand name? Statistics have shown that 54% of users are likely to engage in a tweet with a brand name. So you need to have

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How to avoid Proxy/VPN exit ban for 4chan

The proxy/VPN exit ban on 4Chan may sound familiar to all those who use it. If you’re a regular 4Chan user falling into that category, this article is here to help you. So in this article, you will find out how to bypass Proxy/VPN Exit Node in some unique ways. But before that, first things

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Using User-Agents For Price Scraping

Many businesses perform price scraping to extract data from competitor websites to stay ahead of the competitors. To implement it, often, people use bots or web crawlers where you’re likely to confront several challenges such as IP blocking from host websites. This is where you need to know how to use a user agent to

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How to Avoid Phishing With Proxies?

As more and more internet users have become Phishing victims through malicious acts of cybercriminals, it is well worth looking at some of the measures that cybersecurity firms can implement to curb Phishing. Although many cybersecurity firms focus on combating Phishing, some of the techniques that hackers implement can be challenging to overcome. In this

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Which one should you choose: Proxies vs Scraper API

Web scraping has become a trend among data scientists in this era of big data, and there are plenty of websites that interest them. Due to this popularity for the past few years, many website owners have implemented security measures to block the scrapers’ IP addresses to minimize web scraping. Developers have thus found ways

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