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The Playground: Build and Test Requests in Your Dashboard
We shipped a Playground inside the Dashboard. Pick an endpoint, fill the fields, hit Send, copy the curl. Three endpoints, one cookie jar, every header.
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Why Proxy Pool Size Stopped Mattering in 2026
Vendors advertise 400 million residential IPs. But in 2026, IP reputation collapsed as a defense, and proxy pool size stopped predicting real success.
SERP Monitoring at Scale After num=100
Tracking Google rankings at scale got harder once num=100 died. Here's how SEO engineering teams are rebuilding SERP monitoring infrastructure for 2026.
FourA Digest — May 8 to May 15, 2026
The dashboard now has a real request playground for composing API calls, and `unblocker: true` is back to working end-to-end on Single and Proxy Finder.
JA4 and Post-Quantum TLS Broke the Basic Scraper
Your User-Agent header doesn't matter anymore. JA4 fingerprints classify bots at 98.6% accuracy before headers are even read. Here's what shifted in 2026.
FourA shows up in Dawn — and that's the rise of something
Dawn shipped a FourA integration this week. Behind every agent answer that touches the live web, there's now an extraction call. Here's the shape that's emerging.
FourA Digest — May 1 to May 8, 2026
Proxy Finder now picks proxies based on what actually worked for your target sites, plus Browser stability fixes and a Dashboard product filter.
Detecting MAP Violations Across Six Marketplaces
Manual MAP monitoring catches violations days too late. Here's how brand protection teams scrape Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and TikTok Shop in near real time.
FourA Digest — Apr 24 to May 1, 2026
This week at FourA: Proxy Finder's dashboard joins the FourA design system, login errors now recover cleanly, and Overview filters by product and outcome.
Cutting Response Time From 2.5s to Under a Second Across 4.2M Requests
4.2 million requests in 24 hours. Average 774 ms, down from 2.5 seconds the week before. Here's what changed in the request path, with real percentiles.