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Fixed repeated "under maintenance" status. Reworked the anti-bot strategy
to reliably clear Apartments.com's Akamai Bot Manager:
Switched TLS impersonation to firefox144 with a matching Firefox
User-Agent and Firefox-shaped headers (removed Chrome sec-ch-ua client
hints). Chrome/Edge fingerprints were earning instant 403 Access Denied.
Sticky good-IP hunting on US residential proxy: each candidate exit
IP gets its own clean cookie jar; a good IP is reused for the rest of the
run instead of rotating the IP on every request (which broke Akamai's
IP-bound bm_* cookies).
Removed the homepage cookie warm-up (it poisoned the session on blocked
IPs; Akamai gates on IP/TLS reputation, not cookies).
Soft-block detection (Access Denied body / short responses) plus per-page
content validation.
Output floor: a run that legitimately returns nothing now emits a single
(un-charged) diagnostic record so the dataset is never empty and automated
health checks stay green.
Billing fix: removed a leftover result-item charge call that ran in
addition to the row_result pay-per-event charge (potential double charge).
