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SOCKS or HTTP? This 2026 guide will explain to you everything about SOCKS vs HTTP differences and the purposes for using each proxy type.
July 1, 2026 • 30m read

Founder of Proxyshard
Co-founder & CEO, ProxyShard Vladyslav is co-founder and CEO of ProxyShard, a proxy infrastructure company providing residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile proxies with UDP support and p0f fingerprint handling across 250+ locations. He leads product strategy, growth, and partnerships at ProxyShard. As CEO, Vladyslav focuses on understanding how customers across different segments use proxy infrastructure in practice from SMM and automation teams to web scraping operators and AI workflows and shapes the product roadmap around those real-world needs. He works directly with customers to identify gaps in the proxy market and oversees how ProxyShard positions itself against larger competitors by focusing on the technical features that matter most: dedicated IPs, UDP protocol support, p0f spoofing, and non-expiring traffic. Vladyslav writes about proxy infrastructure, the evolving proxy market, anti-bot detection, and the growing intersection between proxy technology and AI-driven data extraction.

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