Residential proxy
A residential proxy is an IP address issued by an internet service provider to an ordinary home connection, not a data center. To anti-fraud and anti-bot systems, that IP looks like a real person browsing, not a server or a VPN.
Residential vs. datacenter proxies
A datacenter IP belongs to a hosting provider and is easy to flag as non-human via ASN/IP-intel lookups. A residential IP is tied to a real ISP in a specific region, so it passes geo and human checks far more reliably — at a noticeably higher price.
Residential proxies in PWA arbitrage
Buyers use residential proxies to check how a landing page or PWA looks from the target geo through a genuine user's eyes, without exposing their main IP to the platform. The flip side: datacenter/proxy/VPN IPs among incoming traffic are one of the strongest bot signals — APEX's IP-intel, part of its cloaking+anti-bot layer, automatically filters that non-residential traffic away from the real offer and routes it to trafficback.
FAQ
- Do you need to buy residential proxies for PWA arbitrage?
- Not always — it depends on the task. They're useful for QA-checking a landing page in a specific geo, but filtering incoming datacenter-IP traffic is already handled by the anti-bot layer on the PWA side.
- Why are residential proxies more expensive than datacenter ones?
- Their pool is limited to real ISP connections, often sourced through peer networks of physical devices, so supply is lower and price per IP or per GB runs noticeably higher than datacenter servers.
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