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Rate Limiting and Proxy Rotation

Server-side controls that throttle or block clients by address and request volume, and the residential or datacenter proxy pools used to spread traffic across many exit addresses.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

YouTube refuses caption scrapers with a well-formed empty 200

Seven variations of the old ytInitialPlayerResponse scrape returned zero bytes from a clean residential IP on 2026-09-21. Getting text back now costs either a maintained library or a headless browser per request.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives72
Confidence50