
What Is a DNS Leak? How to Test and Fix It in 2026
Your VPN can be connected and your browsing can still leak through DNS. Here’s how to spot a DNS leak in two minutes and fix it on every device.
Tutorials, comparisons, and industry insights to help you master proxies, VPNs, and web scraping.

Your VPN can be connected and your browsing can still leak through DNS. Here’s how to spot a DNS leak in two minutes and fix it on every device.

Mobile proxies borrow a carrier IP that many real phone users share. Here’s how carrier-grade NAT, sourcing and rotation work, and when the price premium is worth paying.

Robots.txt is not a lock, ToS is usually a civil risk, and proxies do not rewrite the law. A plain-English compliance map for scrapers in 2026.

ISP proxies borrow a home internet provider’s address and run it on a data center server. Here’s how that works, why IP checkers disagree about them, and when they’re worth paying for.

Ten headless browser APIs compared on what an hour of browsing really costs once proxy bandwidth and billing minimums kick in, how they handle detection, and which suits scraping, testing or AI agents.

Nine social media scraping tools compared on what 1,000 results really cost, which platforms they still cover in 2026, and where the legal line sits, plus the official APIs that now beat scrapers.

OpenAI, xAI and Meta all launched always-on AI agents within seven weeks. We compare how Dots, Grok Bot and Muse work, what they cost, what they do with your data, and who each one suits.

A complete Firecrawl Python SDK tutorial: setup, every endpoint, Pydantic schemas, async batches, pagination, webhooks and error handling, plus the cache default that quietly serves old pages.

Reddit shut most of the old scraping routes between late 2025 and mid-2026. We tested what’s left and show the legal ways to get posts and comments now, with PRAW code, costs and the deadlines that matter.

Ten Firecrawl use cases worth building, each with Python code checked against the current SDK, the right endpoint and real credit costs, plus the jobs where Firecrawl is the wrong tool.

GoLogin’s price depends on which page you read. Here’s the live price for every plan, what each tier unlocks, the real cost per profile, and the extras that grow your bill.

AdsPower starts at $9, but almost nobody pays exactly that. Here’s every plan, the hidden per-profile price table, what teammates cost, and the renewal number to check before you buy.