A cold proxy exit gets Google results 20% of the time. A warmed one gets 87%

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You rotate to a fresh residential IP, open Google in a real browser, type a query - and get a captcha. Again. We assumed that was the proxy. We measured it, and it mostly wasn't: what mattered most was whether that exit had done anything before the search. Every attempt below opens google.com in a real, headful browser (Chromium 151 The cold arm searches straight away.

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