Hey dev community, If you are running programmatic SEO networks, web scrapers, or scaling data pipelines for LLM ingestion, you are probably relying heavily on Rotating Proxies . The pitch from proxy vendors is always the same: "We give you millions of residential IPs, and we rotate them automatically on every request so you never get blocked." Sounds perfect, right? But last month, while auditing our Django-based scraping manager, I noticed a painful anomaly: our proxy bill was...