What to do when a target site blocks your requests

Getting blocked is usually a sign that your request pattern, not just your IP, looks automated. Rotating to a new IP helps, but it's rarely the whole fix on its own.

Start with the IP layer

• Start a new session to force a fresh IP immediately
• Switch to Residential if you're currently on Datacenter — residential IPs carry far more trust with anti-bot systems
• If you're on a long sticky session, that same IP has had time to accumulate a bad reputation — drop to Rotating

Then look at your request pattern

• Add realistic delays between requests instead of firing as fast as possible
• Set a real, current User-Agent header rather than a default library one
• Respect the site's robots.txt and published rate limits where they exist
• Vary request timing slightly rather than hitting the same endpoint on a perfectly fixed interval

If it's still blocking you

Some sites use JavaScript challenges or browser fingerprinting that no proxy alone can bypass — in that case, a headless browser (see the Selenium example in Using InsideProxy with Python) routed through a residential proxy is usually the next step up.