Software1 hOctober 6, 2026, 17:54

Cold proxy exit gets Google results 20% of the time, warmed one 87%

Tests in a real headful browser show a fresh residential IP gets Google results only 20% of the time, rising to 87% after six ordinary pages in the same sticky session. The effect grows with warm-up depth, and a Linux VPS scored 0%.

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Cold proxy exit gets Google results 20% of the time, warmed one 87%

Cold exit: 20% (46 of 232); warmed with six pages: 87% (409 of 471)
Warm-up depth 0/2/4/7 pages yielded 11%, 24%, 33% and 82% results
Windows workstation served 39% (24 of 61), Linux VPS 0% (0 of 84)
Warming one exit took ~3 minutes and 34 MB; each results page 17–21 s

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