Cloudflare often blocks scrapers before HTML is returned. Here is what TLS fingerprints, JS challenges, and proxies actually change.
You rotate residential proxies, set a Chrome user agent, and still get a 403. Or worse, you get a 200 response that contains a Cloudflare challenge page instead of the product, article, or search result you expected. That usually means the site is not blocking just your IP address.
The proxy is only one part of the fingerprint
A proxy changes where the request comes from. It does not make your HTTP client behave like Chrome.
This is the common version of the problem:
import requests
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