Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Residential Proxies for Recruiting and Job Market Data
Job postings, salaries, and hiring trends are served by location and heavily defended. How residential proxies make recruiting and job market data accurate.
Chris Collins · July 10, 2026 Residential Proxies for Digital Shelf Analytics
Your digital shelf, rank, content, availability, reviews, is geo-personalized per retailer and market. How residential proxies measure it as a real shopper.
James Meadow · July 9, 2026 Residential Proxies for Alternative Data
Investment firms trade on web-sourced signals, but only if the data is accurate. How residential proxies make alternative data complete, geo-true, unblocked.
James Meadow · July 7, 2026 How to Use Residential Proxies with Playwright
A hands-on guide to residential proxies in Playwright: auth, per-context rotation, geo-targeting, cutting bandwidth, and the Chromium gotchas.
Chris Collins · July 6, 2026 Residential Proxies for Threat Intelligence and OSINT
Malicious infrastructure cloaks and geo-fences to hide from investigators. How residential proxies let security teams observe threats as a real local user.
Chris Collins · July 5, 2026 Monitoring AI Search and Google AI Overviews with Proxies
AI Overviews and answer engines vary by location. How residential proxies let you monitor your AI search visibility accurately, per market.
James Meadow · July 4, 2026 Residential Proxies for Competitor Ad Intelligence
Competitor ads are geo-targeted and personalized, so you only see them as a real local user. How residential proxies power accurate competitor ad intelligence.
Matt Brown · July 3, 2026 Residential Proxies for B2B Lead Generation and Data Enrichment
B2B lead generation and data enrichment are data-collection problems. How residential proxies enable complete, accurate, compliant collection of public business data.
Matt Brown · June 30, 2026 Is Web Scraping Legal? A Practical 2026 Overview
Is web scraping legal? Usually yes for public data, but it depends on what, how, and where. A plain-English overview of the law, key cases, and best practices.
James Meadow · June 26, 2026