Residential Proxies

Residential Proxies route your traffic through real, ISP-assigned IP addresses from private homes, ensuring high anonymity and bypassing aggressive anti-bot defenses.

Residential Proxies function as a critical intermediary: they mask your actual IP by routing requests through a pool of legitimate, consumer-grade IP addresses assigned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). This is the key differentiator from datacenter proxies: the destination server sees traffic originating from a real household device, not a commercial server farm. This authenticity dramatically reduces block rates for large-scale operations like web scraping, ad verification, and market intelligence gathering. For instance, you can run a 24/7 price monitoring campaign across 10,000 e-commerce sites, appearing as thousands of distinct, organic users from specific global locations.

https://oxylabs.io/blog/what-is-a-residential-proxy