Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
The Security Questionnaire Your InfoSec Team Will Send a Proxy Vendor
What InfoSec and procurement ask a proxy vendor, section by section: IP sourcing, logging, access control, audits, GDPR terms and incident response.
Sofia Marin · October 24, 2026 Provenance in the AI Training Pipeline: Proving Where Your Dataset Came From
What AI training data provenance means in practice: the record to keep for every document, what the EU AI Act summary asks for, and how to carry it through.
Elena Petrova · October 24, 2026 How to Test Website Speed from Different Countries
How to test website speed from different locations: lab and field tools, what PageSpeed Insights does not show, checking CDN edges and cache status per country, and a repeatable curl workflow.
Daniel Okafor · October 23, 2026 Buy Proxies with Bitcoin & Crypto: How to Pay Safely
How to buy proxies with Bitcoin, USDT and other crypto without losing money: picking the coin and network, sending the exact amount, vetting the provider and handling renewals.
Matt Brown · October 23, 2026 Shifter Web Proxy Is Now Available in 120 Countries, With No More Limits
Shifter's free web proxy is now generally available: residential IPs in 120 countries, up from 54, with no time limit and no daily data allowance.
James Meadow · October 23, 2026 Price Monitoring Across Temu, Shein & AliExpress: Data & Proxy Needs
What to track on Temu, Shein and AliExpress, why the same product has a different price in each country, and the proxy setup that shows you each market as local shoppers see it.
Priya Nair · October 22, 2026 Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy: Differences & When You Need Each
A forward proxy acts for the client, a reverse proxy acts for the server. How each one works, how they differ in practice, and when you need one, the other or both.
James Meadow · October 22, 2026 Collecting Social Media Data With Modern Web Scraping APIs
How brand and research teams collect public social data with web scraping APIs: what to collect, one schema for every platform, and personal data designed out.
Priya Nair · October 21, 2026