Using a Proxy Server

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Are proxies better to use than VPN?

They are similar,but VPN is more secure as all traffic is encrypted.
Now can proxies be more geared against web scraping operations.
VPN services are mostly oriented towards a single user,
who looking to not only mask their IP address,but also to make sure that their internet requests are encrypted.

Personally so do i use Astrill for VPN,used it for 7-years now.
Has also own setting to us proxy severs.

If doing a bigger Businesses like scrape project,then can rotating proxy service help eg Crawlera.