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I am new to data science and web development.

Currently, I am using Selenium to scrape data and I am trying to fake my IP address from being blocked. I followed the instructions in Running Selenium Webdriver with a proxy in Python But it didn't work. After applied proxy in the request header, my IP address is still not change at all.

Apart from this, in this post, people are faking IP using random IP addresses and seems that they made it.

So my question is, since we can fake any IP address we want using these kind of proxy configuration provided by Selenium, then why do we need a paid proxy server?

Thanks for your answers.

Dawei Xu
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  • You cannot **fake** IP addresses. Using a proxy means re-routing the connection pipe through that proxy, so you need a valid IP address, correctly configured. And if you want reliability, you will pay for such service. – Barry the Platipus Oct 08 '22 at 10:44

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