Yes, I bought a cheap residential proxy service and used it to scrape a site.

Ironic that I'd need something like that to stop getting blocked from a residential IP

It's probably cheaper to switch your ISP to one that your target site does not block, than to pay someone else to buy that connection and proxy all your traffic through them.

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Sorry, I don't consider that a bypass, or easy.

Using a real browser is also easy.

I have tried many, many, many browsers across multiple OSes and different hardware, and they all give me endless captchas.

Firefox, Waterfox, Iceweasel, Icecat, Seamonkey, LibreWolf, Pale Moon, Mullvad, Tor Browser

Chromium, ungoogled-chromium, Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, Falkon, qutebrowser

Safari, GNOME Web, Konqueror

No difference.

I am 100% certain it has nothing to do with my browser.