What Is MASQUE? Explained in 3 Minutes
What is MASQUE, and why might your proxy be quietly dropping HTTP/3? Around 40% of websites now run on HTTP/3, while most proxies only tunnel TCP. When the two meet, your requests can silently fall back to older protocols. In this video, Software Engineer Paulius StundΕΎia, who builds MASQUE support for Oxylabs Residential Proxies, explains how MASQUE and CONNECT-UDP close that gap, how they compare with SOCKS5, and who benefits most, from real-time data and live streaming to HTTP/3 sites. π§ *TRY OXYLABS RESIDENTIAL PROXIES* Residential Proxies: https://oxy.yt/BRax π *RESOURCES MENTIONED* Oxylabs documentation: https://developers.oxylabs.io π¬ *CONNECT WITH OXYLABS* Website: oxylabs.io LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/oxylabs-io X: x.com/Oxylabs_io Support: [email protected] β³ *TIMESTAMPS* 0:00 Intro 0:10 What is currently changing on the web? 0:44 Where TCP tunnels fall short 1:20 What is MASQUE? 1:50 Doesn't SOCKS5 already do UDP? 2:20 What do you get out of CONNECT-UDP? 2:46 Who needs CONNECT-UDP 3:07 Try it yourself #MASQUE #CONNECTUDP #HTTP3 #QUIC #Proxies #ResidentialProxies #WebScraping #Oxylabs #2026 Β© 2026 Oxylabs. All rights reserved.