Has anyone else hit a wall because a website or API you needed for work or a project was blocked in your region? I was trying to gather some comparative data for a client last month, and it was a complete nightmare. Every other request was met with a CAPTCHA or, worse, a full-on IP ban. I was wasting more time fighting blocks than doing the actual analysis.
A contact who does a lot of market research mentioned they used a residential proxy to get around these issues. The key for them was using IPs that appear as regular home users, not datacenter IPs which are easy to flag.
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It got me through a really tight spot. If you're constantly battling geo-restrictions or anti-bot measures for legitimate work, it's worth looking into. You can check out their service here: FlyProxy