OP here—yo, thanks for all the tips! Didn’t know about ipleak.net or proxy-scraper-checker, gonna try those tonight.
Quick update: Tried the curl method and holy crap, some of my "fast" proxies were actually garbage.
One follow-up: Anyone got a favorite paid proxy provider that’s worth the cash? Or is it all the same?
(Also, big shoutout to the async Python tip—definitely gonna automate this mess.)
Quick update: Tried the curl method and holy crap, some of my "fast" proxies were actually garbage.
One follow-up: Anyone got a favorite paid proxy provider that’s worth the cash? Or is it all the same?
(Also, big shoutout to the async Python tip—definitely gonna automate this mess.)