Broxy Proxy

In the "System Settings" section, open the "Network" tab, and then, when you highlight the active connection, click "Advanced". Here, in the "Proxies" tab, tick only the HTTP proxy if you do not intend to use other types of proxies temporarily. Enter the address of your proxy server and its port in the designated fields and click "OK".

"Work via VPN" means to connect to a site, an application or a remote server via a VPN server. That is, through an "intermediary" that not only hides the real IP address, but also additionally encrypts the traffic so that it cannot be "read".

Common users can use proxies to bypass blocking, to protect their personal data and to hide their real IP address or data about the equipment they use. But network administrators use them to analyze network traffic and test web applications.

In Selenium, you can add headers to your web requests using the webdriver.ChromeOptions class. This is useful when you want to simulate certain HTTP headers in your Selenium-driven browser. Here's an example of how to add headers to Selenium using the Chrome WebDriver:

from selenium import webdriver

# Create ChromeOptions object
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

# Add headers to the options
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled")  # Example header

# Instantiate the Chrome WebDriver with options
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

# Now you can use the driver for your automation tasks
driver.get("https://example.com")

# Close the browser window when done
driver.quit()

In this example, we use the add_argument method of ChromeOptions to add headers. The specific argument --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled is an example of a header that might be used to mitigate detection mechanisms that check for automation.

You can customize the headers by adding more add_argument calls with the desired headers. Here's an example of adding custom headers:

chrome_options.add_argument("user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36")
chrome_options.add_argument("accept-language=en-US,en;q=0.9")
# Add more headers as needed

Remember to adapt the headers based on your requirements and the website you are interacting with. The headers you add should mimic those of a regular user to reduce the chances of detection.

The main task of these two popular technologies is to provide security for the Internet user. Despite a certain similarity of tasks, they are performed absolutely differently. Proxy, although it allows you to remain anonymous and bypass blocked sites, it is still quite vulnerable, especially when it comes to untested services. VPN in this regard looks preferable, because thanks to end-to-end encryption it reliably protects information from the entry point to the exit point.