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Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Ethical Residential Proxies for AI Data Collection
Ethical residential proxies for AI data collection help teams scale public web access with consent, compliance controls, and reliable geo-targeting.
James Meadow · June 6, 2026 Residential Proxies for Price Monitoring
Residential proxies for price monitoring and market intelligence help teams collect accurate local data at scale with fewer blocks and lower cost.
Matt Brown · June 5, 2026 Residential Proxies for AI Search SEO
Learn how residential proxies for AI search engine optimization improve SERP accuracy, geo-targeting, scale, and data quality for enterprise teams.
James Meadow · June 3, 2026 What Are Residential Proxies?
What are residential proxies? Learn how they work, why teams use them for web data collection, and where they fit in large-scale proxy infrastructure.
James Meadow · May 20, 2026 Why the Per-Port Proxy Era Is Over
Port-based proxy plans made sense in 2012. They stopped making sense around 2020. How the industry settled on bandwidth pricing and what it means for buyers.
James Meadow · April 28, 2026 Are Proxies Legal? Web Scraping Laws, Safety and Ethics
Learn when proxy use and web scraping are legal, how rules differ across the US, UK and EU, and what ethical IP sourcing involves.
James Meadow · April 4, 2023 What Are Rotating Proxies? How Rotation and Sticky Sessions Work
Learn how rotating proxies work, including per-request rotation, sticky sessions, backconnect gateways, setup options and common use cases.
James Meadow · January 6, 2023 Static vs Rotating Proxies: Benefits, Drawbacks and Use Cases
Compare static and rotating proxies by IP source, session length, speed, detection risk, cost and ideal use case.
Chris Collins · October 7, 2022 7 Questions to Ask Your Proxy Provider
How do you choose the best proxy server provider? Ask your proxy company the following questions to make sure you make the right decision!
Chris Collins · October 3, 2022