# The week in free proxies: Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2026

Every hour, [proxy-scraper](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper) collects public HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5
proxies from 700+ lists and keeps only the ones that pass a real handshake, a honeypot check and a content check.
This is what 49 of those runs looked like.

14,611 different proxies passed every check at least once. Of the 13,242 that dropped off again, 86 % were gone by the next check. None of them lasted 24 checks in a row (about a day). 135 proxies on the list right now have been up for 24 checks in a row or more.

Google let 22 % through – 15 % of datacenter exits, 35 % of the rest.

Reddit let 29 % through – 8 % of datacenter exits, 78 % of the rest.

Amazon let 1 % through – 1 % of datacenter exits, 2 % of the rest.

Between 888 and 4,223 proxies worked at any one time. Right now: 1,365, 57 % of them tunnel HTTPS, 55 % exit from a datacenter.

Most of them sit in United States (491), Australia (179), China (58), Germany (54), Indonesia (51).

![How long free proxies last](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/report/lifetimes-light.svg)

The list, filters and a page per proxy: https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/
Raw data (JSON, CSV, TXT): https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/proxies.json

*Generated automatically from the hourly checks. Public proxies are run by strangers – never send passwords or
personal data through them.*