The 5 Top Uses for Residential Proxies
Residential proxies route your traffic through real IP addresses assigned by actual ISPs to actual homes. That's the whole distinction that matters. A datacenter proxy comes from a server farm and looks nothing like normal traffic. A residential IP looks exactly like someone browsing from their living room, because, well, technically it is. That's why websites trust residential traffic more and block it far less. For anyone doing data collection, research, or account management at any real scale, that trust gap is basically the whole reason this category exists.