How I bypassed Akamai on the Illinois liquor license portal (and why it changed how I build scrapers)

Illinois liquor license data lives behind a Salesforce Experience Cloud portal guarded by Akamai. I needed to reach it because the rest of my API already covered California, Texas, New York, and Florida, and four states out of fifty looked like half a product. I thought it would take an afternoon. It took a week. TL;DR Akamai blocks Webshare residential, datacenter IPs, ScraperAPI proxy mode, and even my own Paris residential IP. Four for four. ScraperAPI's render API (not proxy mode) is the...