u/Yeetscoper69

I've been planning this trip for like a year and the flights were killing my budget. So I went deep on setting up alerts. here's what actually worked for me. i stopped being picky about airports. instead of just my home city i added the two other airports within a few hours drive, and suddenly the prices made way more sense. I ran into some weird routes too. one option had me flying through a random third country and surprisingly, it was hundreds cheaper. anyway, if you're doing a bucket list thing and stressing about cost... just widen everything. Airports, dates, routes, it saved me a stupid amount.

I'm doing the classic 2 month backpacking loop through Europe. starting Lisbon ending somewhere in eastern Europe. Haven't locked the exit city yet since it depends how the trip goes. Budget is tight though. Maybe 40-30 euros a night total including transport so every flight leg matters. But somehow Google flights keeps showing me these weird single airline options that cost way more than they should. half the time it doesn't even pull in the cheaper budget carriers and the worst part… it wont mix airlines to save money either. What other option out there compares the whole trip cost across all the legs instead of one route at a time? Nearby airports too would be nice. It seems some of these small cities have like two or three options within a few hours drive.

I am deep in this small market research project and I keep getting flagged. Like every other request gets a strike and half my data is garbage. I've been reading about proxies for a couple of days now and I kinda feel lost. Residential vs datacenter vs private proxy... what's the actual difference when it comes to not getting "caught"? I am a reseller so I am watching budget hard. Datacenters are cheap but they get flagged way too often its frustrating. Residentials seems better but the pricing is all over the place and some of these sellers look shady af. What would be a perfect fit, and how do I even tell if a provider is legit vs just reselling some botnet. I'm still kinda noob at this any advice would be nice

Just getting into sneaker bots and trying to buy proxies without wasting a bunch of money. Budget is like $30 to start, maybe less. I keep seeing residential, datacenter, ISP, rotating, sticky... lemme just say i have no clue what actually makes sense for coping shoes. Mostly wanna test some drops and see if I can get a setup working before spending more. When you guys buy proxies for bots, are residential or ISP better for this? Also rotating or sticky sessions? any recs that fit a broke beginner budget would help, mainly trying to avoid constant captchas and burned IPs.

I'm pulling a small dataset for an ml project, few thousand pages and my residential proxies keep getting flagged around 40% into a run. Session dies, requests start 403ing, and I lose the batch.

Been rotating proxies, randomizing user agents, adding delays, same pattern. Started looking at a node unblocker as a middle layer instead of hitting the target directly, but not sure if that fixes anything. Trying to figure out if the proxy pool is burnt or if my headers/fingerprint are giving it away. Anyone dealt with this at similar scale?