Advantage Proxy

To hide the geckodriver.exe console in Selenium, you can use the subprocess module in Python to start the geckodriver.exe process without a console window.

Here's an example of how to do it:

import subprocess
from selenium import webdriver

# Replace 'your_url' with the URL of the webpage you want to open
subprocess.Popen(['geckodriver.exe'], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('your_url')

# Rest of your code

driver.quit()

In this example, we use the subprocess.Popen() function to start the geckodriver.exe process without a console window. The stdout and stderr parameters are set to subprocess.DEVNULL to suppress any output from the process.

After starting the geckodriver.exe process, you can create a Firefox webdriver instance and interact with the browser as usual.

Keep in mind that hiding the console window might make it harder to debug issues that arise during the execution of your Selenium script. Consider keeping the console window visible during development and testing, and hiding it only in the final production environment.

An HTTP proxy works as an intermediary between a client (usually a web browser) and a web server. It receives HTTP requests from the client, forwards them to the appropriate web server, and then returns the web server's response back to the client. The primary purpose of an HTTP proxy is to provide various benefits such as privacy, caching, and content filtering.

In a local network, you will need two computers to do this. One will be used as a proxy server, the other as a client. Then you need to activate the proxy on the server. And on the client PC - choose to access the Internet via a local network connection (i.e. from the server). Another option is to use a web server like Nginx.

VPN allows you to hide your real IP address, as well as further encrypt your traffic. VPN is also actively used for address spoofing. For example, the user is in the Russian Federation, but by connecting through a VPN server, the site "thinks" that the user is from the United States.

In Windows, proxy settings for local connections are made through the "Network and Sharing Center" (from the "Control Panel"). You need to select "Browser Properties", then go to "Connections" and click on "Network Setting". And there you can set either the script or the parameters for the proxy.