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Forward proxy vs reverse proxy comes down to who you’re hiding—clients or servers.

For scraping, you want a forward proxy (residential IPs work best).
For hosting, reverse proxy all the way (Cloudflare even does some of it for free).

Just avoid free proxies—they’re usually trash.