diff --git a/tradein-mvp/backend/app/services/scrapers/avito.py b/tradein-mvp/backend/app/services/scrapers/avito.py
index d44a9a25..ae49f725 100644
--- a/tradein-mvp/backend/app/services/scrapers/avito.py
+++ b/tradein-mvp/backend/app/services/scrapers/avito.py
@@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ class AvitoScraper(BaseScraper):
         self.parse_failures: int = 0
 
     async def __aenter__(self) -> AvitoScraper:
-        await super().__aenter__()
         if settings.scraper_fetch_mode == "browser":
             self._browser = BrowserFetcher()
             await self._browser.__aenter__()
             logger.info("avito: SERP fetch via BrowserFetcher (camoufox) — #901")
             return self
+        await super().__aenter__()
         proxies = None
         if settings.scraper_proxy_url:
             proxies = {"http": settings.scraper_proxy_url, "https": settings.scraper_proxy_url}
@@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ class AvitoScraper(BaseScraper):
 
         Returns:
             HTML при HTTP 200, либо ``None`` при non-200 (конец пагинации).
+            В browser-mode HTTP-статус недоступен: метод возвращает HTML или
+            поднимает ``AvitoBlockedError`` (pagination ends via empty-parse in callers).
         Raises:
             AvitoBlockedError / AvitoRateLimitedError — если бан не снят ротацией.
         """
diff --git a/tradein-mvp/backend/tests/test_avito_browser_mode.py b/tradein-mvp/backend/tests/test_avito_browser_mode.py
index d13b6661..f6be8369 100644
--- a/tradein-mvp/backend/tests/test_avito_browser_mode.py
+++ b/tradein-mvp/backend/tests/test_avito_browser_mode.py
@@ -200,3 +200,26 @@ async def test_fetch_city_wide_browser_mode_stops_on_empty_parse() -> None:
     assert result[0].source_id == "LOT_1"
     # page1 parsed (returned lot) + page2 parsed (returned []) → stopped; page3-10 never called
     assert call_count == 2
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 5. rotation returns False → immediate AvitoBlockedError
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_browser_mode_rotation_returns_false_raises_blocked() -> None:
+    """rotate_url set but _rotate_ip() returns False → must immediately raise AvitoBlockedError.
+
+    Covers the branch: firewall detected + rotate_url configured + _rotate_ip() == False
+    (e.g. rotation API timeout/failure) → we cannot recover → blocked.
+    """
+    scraper = AvitoScraper()
+    scraper._browser = _make_mock_browser(_FIREWALL_HTML)
+
+    with patch("app.services.scrapers.avito.settings") as mock_settings:
+        mock_settings.avito_proxy_rotate_url = "http://proxy/rotate"
+        mock_settings.avito_proxy_max_rotations = 2
+        with patch.object(scraper, "_rotate_ip", new=AsyncMock(return_value=False)):
+            with pytest.raises(AvitoBlockedError, match="browser-mode"):
+                await scraper._fetch_serp_html("https://avito.ru/test", page=1)