"In Most Cases, an Affiliate Will Get Burned" — Interview with a Proxy Seller

Hey, in November 2021 I bought a course. That's where it all started. For six months I was exclusively doing affiliate marketing, running campaigns both in profit and at a loss: FB, Insta, the whole standard setup. 

Over time, I noticed that people were constantly looking for proxies. There were a lot of them — a whole lot of them)

I understand the fundamentals, I understand the problems affiliate marketers run into. And I ran campaigns myself, as I mentioned above.

It all depends on the proxy type: static or mobile. With static proxies, it's fairly straightforward — fraud check, IP quality score, and so on. Services like those will do the job. 

Mobile proxies, in my view, can't really be "low quality." Mobile proxies either work or they don't. The IP pool is the same across all sellers. Proxies can only differ in their fingerprint and the restrictions a seller places on visiting certain resources. 

FB might get triggered by one proxy fingerprint during one period, then switch to flagging another. That's why you should buy from me — where you can change the fingerprint to whatever you need and have the ability to test things like that.

In most cases, an affiliate marketer will get flagged regardless. No antidetect browser or proxy can guarantee full anonymity. There are countless parameters a website receives from a visitor. 

Starting with the fact that your timezone, OS language, and screen resolution — both yours and the one used when farming the account — don't match the GEO of the proxy you're using. There are a lot of details like that. Some of them can be checked on whoer.

Yes, because there are no intermediaries and FB sees that the machine is working "directly" through a mobile proxy. Whether accounts live longer — I can't say for certain. But that there are no checkpoints and FB trusts you more — 100%, proven in practice.

I think 20 Mbit+ is enough for comfortable work.

I can't recall any sites that the carrier restricted access to — feel free to share. In my view, it's the site itself that may restrict access as a security measure: the proxy is mobile, but the connection comes from a PC.

Based on what clients actually take. For crypto — Kyivstar. For FB, Instagram — Life and Vodafone. For checkers and parsers — usually whatever performs best in the given location. For farming or registrations — per the client's preference.

It's not entirely a myth, but it's not entirely true either. Decryption is possible, but keep in mind that every application logs and encrypts data in its own way. So it would take a serious effort to decrypt — a very serious one.

The IPs from which connections originate and where they go — the seller can see that, if the software allows it.

One of our promotion strategies is word of mouth. Advertising, referral bonus campaigns, barters. A personal dashboard development plan has been in place for a while — everything will be rolled out when the time is right.

To stay in the market, you need to value your clients, make concessions where possible, and genuinely try to help with any questions they have.

Not once 😄

For now, I handle everything myself.

Probably, yes 😄

Honestly, it barely works, and I don't put much effort into maintaining it — but some clients do remember it and bring it up regularly. 

If an existing client refers a new one, they get bonus days credited to their account. The number of bonus days depends on the subscription period the new client purchases. Longer period = bigger bonus.

By choosing the right proxy locations and following a certain growth strategy.

I can't really say anything definitive on that — it all depends on the hardware the proxy runs on, the servers, the software, and the location.

No, I don't. What I do guarantee is that I always deliver the maximum I can squeeze out of the proxy. If the mobile operator's tower is performing poorly, everyone suffers. What matters here is having multiple towers at the same location.

In short: modems, SIM cards, servers, software, the right internet connection, the right location, an understanding of how the network works — and an experienced person who can guide you.

No, it's not a myth. A lot of sellers resell the same proxy to multiple clients. As for how to check — from the client's side, you can really only tell by a drop in speed or an IP change that you didn't trigger yourself.

Some people think it's easy and simple. Let them try.

UPS units, batteries, backup power lines work wonders. How long it'll hold — designed for 6 hours, real-world tests will show.

Maybe, haven't thought about it yet. 

Just gut feeling and periodic log checks.

Very simple — money. If they pay, there will be proxies.

Yes, easily. If you want, you can buy an IP address from any country — even Tehran, which has been under sanctions since 1995.

Money. The money would have to run out.

The market will grow, and so will service quality. Although right now there are fewer quality proxy providers than before.

We already have development plans for next year that will make operations more comfortable and significantly more stable. Prices will go up accordingly, but I don't think by much ✌🏻