Troubleshooting
Specific error messages and block screens — what triggers them and what actually fixes them. 9 articles.
- Cloudflare Error 1015 — "You Are Being Rate Limited" Explained and FixedWhat Cloudflare Error 1015 actually means, how it differs from 1020 and the 100x ban codes, and the fixes that work — for ordinary visitors, API clients and teams running at scale.
- Cloudflare Error 1020 — "Access Denied" Explained and FixedError 1020 means you matched a Cloudflare firewall rule, not a rate limit — so it does not expire. The real triggers, the fixes for visitors, and the header and TLS fingerprint issues that catch developers.
- HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required — What It Means and How to Fix ItWhat a 407 proxy error actually means, how it differs from 401, and why it appears even when your credentials look correct — encoding, auth schemes, protocol mismatches and proxy chains.
- HTTP 429 Too Many Requests — What It Means and How to Fix It ProperlyWhat a 429 actually is, how it differs from Cloudflare's Error 1015, how to read Retry-After in both formats, and how to write backoff that matches the rate limit algorithm you hit.
- Mobile Proxy Not Working — A Diagnostic Checklist That Actually Isolates the Cause"Proxy not working" is four different problems wearing the same sentence. How to tell a dead proxy from a working proxy that is being blocked, in about two minutes.
- Mobile Proxy Slow? How to Tell a Real Problem From the PhysicsAbout 2-3 MB/s is the normal ceiling on a mobile proxy, and it is the cellular uplink — not a defect. How to tell that apart from slow connects, a bad tower, a wedged device, and a failing upload.
- Proxy Connection Refused — Causes and How to Fix Each OneWhat ECONNREFUSED really means, how it differs from a timeout or a reset, and the specific proxy misconfigurations that cause it — wrong port, wrong scheme, allowlists, firewalls and IPv6.
- Rotation Says Success But the IP Never Changes — How to Diagnose ItA rotation that returns success in ~2 seconds did not change your IP; a real one takes ~6. The elapsed-time tell, the four faults that look identical, and the curl recipe to separate them.
- YouTube "Sign in to Confirm You're Not a Bot" — What Causes It and How to Fix ItWhy YouTube shows "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot", what actually triggers it, and the fixes that work — for normal viewers, yt-dlp users, and teams running at scale.
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