Glassdoor residential proxies
Glassdoor's defining obstacle isn't rate limiting alone — it's a 'give-to-get' content model that hides full salary distributions and review bodies behind an account/registration gate, fronted by Cloudflare's bot management. Its content is split across country domains (glassdoor.co.uk, .de, .ca) with salary figures normalized to local currency, and employer pages re-serve stale cache to sessions it distrusts. Residential IPs from the matching country keep Cloudflare's IP-reputation scoring calm and return the locale-correct salary bands and review pages a real jobseeker in that market would see.
Once the account/registration layer is handled, the public review and salary pages sit behind Cloudflare's reputation scoring rather than hard interactive challenges, so rotating Premium residential IPs at a human pace are usually sufficient; Elite is only worth it if a run hits sustained challenge pages.
Why Glassdoor is hard
- Full salary distributions and review bodies sit behind a 'give-to-get' registration wall, not just an IP check
- Cloudflare bot management flags datacenter ranges and penalizes bursty request patterns
- Content is fragmented across country domains (.co.uk, .de, .ca) with currency-normalized salary bands
- Employer pages are deeply paginated and re-serve stale cache to suspected automation
How to approach Glassdoor with Aethyn
Targeting & session tips
- Use -country-gb / -country-de etc. to line up the exit with the correct Glassdoor domain and currency.
- Prefer sticky sessions for multi-page employer review runs; rotate between employers, not within one.
- Ramp volume gradually rather than opening many concurrent IPs against the same employer at once.
See the full targeting reference for username suffixes.