# TrueProxies — Full Content for LLMs > Residential and datacenter proxy service with 50M+ residential IPs across 150+ countries. > Condensed index: https://trueproxies.com/llms.txt # Products ## Unlimited residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/unlimited-residential-proxies/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/residential_ipv4_unlimited TrueProxies unlimited residential proxies charge for speed and time, not data. Pick 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, pay by the hour, day, week or month, and move as much traffic as that speed allows through a 16M+ residential IPv4 pool with rotating or sticky sessions and country and city targeting. Plans start at $4.08 for one hour. Unlimited proxies, also called unmetered proxies or unlimited bandwidth proxies: you pay for speed and time, never per GB. ### Frequently asked questions **What does unlimited bandwidth mean for proxies?** You pay for a speed and a duration, not for gigabytes. Transfer as much as your speed allows. **What speed tier should I choose for web scraping?** It depends on page size, request rate and retries. Run your job on a 1-hour plan at 10 Mbps, then size up from what you measure. **Can I switch between sticky and rotating sessions?** Yes. Use sticky sessions for logins and multi-step flows, and rotating sessions for volume. Test both on your targets. **What protocols do TrueProxies unlimited plans support?** Every Unlimited Bandwidth plan supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on the same endpoint. SOCKS5 also carries UDP over SOCKS5 to ports 443 and 53 (QUIC, HTTP/3 and DNS) with the same username and password. Keep UDP packets at 1,400 bytes or less; a UDP connection closes after 60 seconds without traffic. **Can I upgrade my speed tier mid-plan?** Yes. Support can move you to a higher Mbps tier immediately. Pricing is adjusted for the remaining term of your current billing period. **Are unlimited residential proxies really unlimited?** The data is. There is no traffic allowance and no per-GB charge, so nothing counts down while you work. The limits are the plan speed, country and city targeting and the acceptable use policy. Unmetered residential proxies is another name for the same model. **How much data does a 10 Mbps plan move?** Up to 4.5 GB per hour and about 108 GB per day at a constant 10 Mbps (10 × 3,600 ÷ 8 ÷ 1,000). That is a theoretical ceiling: slow destinations, retries and idle connections all lower it, so measure a sample of your own job on a 1-hour plan. **When is unlimited cheaper than paying per GB?** When your traffic is steady enough to use the speed you pay for. On October 20, 2026 prices, a 10 Mbps daily plan at $7.35 beats the lowest Standard traffic pack rate of $0.60/GB above about 12 GB a day, and the 1 GB Standard pack rate of $1.10 above about 6.7 GB. Run your own numbers in the proxy cost calculator. **Can I buy unlimited residential proxies for one hour or one day?** Yes. Hourly plans run 10 to 100 Mbps from $4.08. Daily, weekly and monthly plans run 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, from $7.35 a day. Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable, so test your targets on a 1-hour plan first. **Which countries can I target?** Any country in the pool, by country and city. Region and ASN targeting are on Residential IPv4 Standard, which uses a separate 50M+ pool, and Premium. The country guides show what each location supports. **Are these static or rotating proxies?** Rotating or sticky. Rotating picks a new IP for each connection from the 16M+ pool; sticky holds one IP while it stays available. They are not static ISP addresses, so a sticky session can change IP when its exit goes offline. **Are these unlimited rotating proxies?** Yes. Rotate on every connection, or keep a sticky IP for up to 24 hours. **Is there a free trial?** Not on Unlimited Bandwidth. The free trial is 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps. To test Unlimited Bandwidth, start with a 1-hour plan from $4.08 at 10 Mbps. **Are residential proxies legal?** Using residential proxies is legal in most places when the use itself is lawful: collecting public data, verifying ads, checking prices and testing your own sites are common examples. Our acceptable use policy lists what is not allowed, and every plan is bound by it. **Can websites detect residential proxies?** Sometimes. Residential IPs sit in real ISP ranges, so destinations treat them differently from datacenter ranges, but a site can still challenge or block traffic on behaviour, headers and request rate. Test your targets on a 1-hour plan and check exits with the proxy checker. **Are these unlimited IPv4 proxies or IPv6?** Unlimited is residential IPv4. IPv6 proxies only reach destinations that publish AAAA records, which most sites still do not, so IPv4 is the safe default. Datacenter IPv6 is a separate product with no per-GB charge for targets that do support IPv6. --- ## Unlimited Pro residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/unlimited-pro-residential-proxies/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/residential_ipv4_unlimited_pro TrueProxies Unlimited Pro is residential IPv4 with unlimited traffic for jobs that need many different IPs in one country. It has more IPs per country than Unlimited Bandwidth: a 2.5M+ IP pool across 205+ countries, with city targeting in major cities and rotating or sticky sessions up to 24 hours. Plans are priced by speed, 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, for a day, a week or a month. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are included, with UDP over SOCKS5. ### Unlimited Pro FAQ **How is Unlimited Pro different from Unlimited Bandwidth?** Unlimited Pro has more IPs per country, so a job in one country works through more different addresses. Both have unlimited traffic, country and city targeting and rotating or sticky sessions, and both are priced by speed and time. Unlimited Bandwidth also has hourly plans; the free trial is on Unlimited Pro. **Is there a free trial for Unlimited Pro?** Yes. The free trial is 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with unlimited traffic. You need a verified email address and no card, and the trial never turns into a paid plan. While it runs, Upgrade plan moves it to a paid Unlimited Pro plan with the same username and proxy password. **Can I upgrade my Unlimited Pro plan?** Yes, within Unlimited Pro. Upgrade plan moves the same service, with the same username and proxy password, to a higher plan speed or a longer term, and moves a running free trial to a paid plan. Plans cannot move between Unlimited Pro and Unlimited Bandwidth; buy the other product as a separate service. **What are the limits on Unlimited Pro?** Traffic is unlimited: there is no allowance and no per-GB charge. The limits are your plan speed, which all connections on the service share; country and city targeting only, with no region, state or ASN; UDP over SOCKS5 without DNS on port 53; and the acceptable use policy. **Which countries and cities can I target?** Any of 205+ countries. In major cities you can also target the city; city exits are matched to the wider metro area. Available IPs vary by location and time of day. **How long can a sticky session last?** From 1 minute to 24 hours, set in whole minutes. Without a lifetime, a sticky session lasts 10 minutes. A sticky IP can still change if its exit goes offline. Rotating sessions pick a new IP for each connection. **Which plan speeds and lengths are there?** 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 or 500 Mbps or 1 Gbps, for a day, a week or a month. There are no hourly plans. **Does Unlimited Pro support UDP?** Yes. SOCKS5 carries UDP over SOCKS5 to most ports with the same host, port, username and password as TCP, so QUIC and HTTP/3 work. DNS on UDP port 53 is not carried on Unlimited Pro; resolve names through the proxy with socks5h or use DNS over HTTPS. --- ## Residential IPv4 Standard: pay per GB residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-gb/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/residential_ipv4_gb TrueProxies Residential IPv4 Standard proxies let you access 50M+ IPs in 150+ countries and pay only for the traffic you consume, and the traffic never expires. They are built for testing, variable workloads, and teams that want residential coverage without committing to fixed high-bandwidth plans. ### Residential IPv4 Standard FAQ **How much does Residential IPv4 Standard cost?** A 1 GB traffic pack costs $1.10. Larger traffic packs cost less per GB, down to $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB. Volume discounts and custom enterprise quotes are available through support. **How do I estimate how many GB I need?** Start with a 1 GB traffic pack, then check your usage in the dashboard. Real bandwidth gives a better forecast than request count because response sizes vary by target. **Does unused traffic expire?** Traffic never expires. Top-ups add to the same service, and unused traffic stays until you use it. **When should I choose Standard instead of unlimited?** Choose a Standard traffic pack when traffic is light, intermittent, or still being tested. Unlimited plans become more cost-effective once your workload runs continuously. **Can I switch from Standard to unlimited later?** Yes. Many teams validate traffic patterns on a Standard traffic pack first, then move to unlimited. The products use separate pools, so retest your countries and targets after switching. **Can Residential IPv4 Standard use sticky and rotating sessions?** Yes. Add a session ID to your username for a sticky IP, or leave it out to rotate. See the configuration guide. **How is Standard different from Premium and Lite?** All three are residential IPv4 traffic packs that never expire. Standard has country, city, region and ASN targeting and UDP over SOCKS5. Premium also carries UDP over SOCKS5, targets US states by name and sets a session lifetime from 3 minutes to 24 hours. Lite has the lowest price per GB, with country targeting only and no UDP. --- ## Residential IPv4 Premium URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-premium/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/residential_ipv4_premium TrueProxies Residential IPv4 Premium is residential IPv4 sold in traffic packs, with country, region (US states), city and ASN targeting and sticky sessions that hold one IP for a lifetime you choose, from 3 minutes to 24 hours. SOCKS5 also carries UDP. Traffic never expires, so a traffic pack lasts until you use it. ### Residential IPv4 Premium FAQ **How much does Residential IPv4 Premium cost?** A 1 GB traffic pack costs $1.49. Larger traffic packs cost less per GB: 5 GB for $7.45, 10 GB for $14.90, 50 GB for $69.50, 100 GB for $129.00 and 1,000 GB for $1,000.00 ($1.00/GB). **Does Premium traffic expire?** Traffic never expires. Top-ups add to the same service, and unused traffic stays until you use it. **How long can a sticky session last?** From 3 minutes to 24 hours: you choose the lifetime in Proxy setup. Without one, a sticky session lasts 10 minutes. Leave the session out to get a new IP on every request. **Which locations can I target?** Country, region, city and ASN. Regions are US states, chosen by name. Use a region or a city, not both: when both are set, the city wins. **Does Premium support UDP?** Yes. SOCKS5 carries UDP over SOCKS5 to most ports on the same host, port, username and password, so QUIC, HTTP/3 and DNS go through the proxy too. **Should I choose Premium, Standard or Lite?** All three are residential IPv4 traffic packs that never expire. Choose Premium for US state targeting by name and a session lifetime from 3 minutes to 24 hours, Standard for a lower price per GB and packs up to 5,000 GB, and Lite for the lowest price per GB when country targeting is enough. Standard and Premium carry UDP over SOCKS5; Lite does not. --- ## Residential IPv4 Lite URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-lite/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/residential_ipv4_lite TrueProxies Residential IPv4 Lite is residential IPv4 sold in traffic packs at our lowest price per GB, from $0.50 for 1 GB down to $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB. It targets by country, with rotating IPs or sticky IPs that hold while the session keeps being used. Traffic never expires. ### Residential IPv4 Lite FAQ **How much does Residential IPv4 Lite cost?** A 1 GB traffic pack costs $0.50. Larger traffic packs cost less per GB: 5 GB for $2.50, 10 GB for $5.00, 50 GB for $25.00, 100 GB for $48.00 and 1,000 GB for $450.00 ($0.45/GB). **Does Lite traffic expire?** Traffic never expires. Top-ups add to the same service, and unused traffic stays until you use it. **Which locations can I target with Lite?** Country only. For city, region or ASN targeting, use Residential IPv4 Standard or Premium. **How do sticky IPs work on Lite?** A sticky IP holds while the session keeps being used; there is no session lifetime to choose. Leave the session out to get a new IP on every request. **Does Lite support UDP?** No. Lite carries HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 over TCP. For UDP over SOCKS5, use Residential IPv4 Standard or Premium, or Unlimited Bandwidth. **Should I choose Lite, Standard or Premium?** All three are residential IPv4 traffic packs that never expire. Choose Lite for the lowest price per GB when country targeting is enough, Standard for city, region and ASN targeting with UDP over SOCKS5, and Premium for US state targeting by name, a session lifetime from 3 minutes to 24 hours and UDP over SOCKS5. --- ## Residential IPv6 proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv6/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/residential_ipv6 TrueProxies Residential IPv6 gives you access to residential IPv6 addresses on a home internet provider’s network in Ashburn, Virginia, United States. Every request gets a new IPv6 address, or a sticky session keeps one IP for the session lifetime you choose, up to 24 hours. Plans are priced by speed, 20 to 500 Mbps, daily, weekly or monthly, with unlimited traffic, from $5.99/day. Sites without an IPv6 address open through a US IPv4 fallback for light use. ### Residential IPv6 FAQ **What are rotating residential IPv6 proxies?** Rotating residential IPv6 proxies send each request from a different IPv6 address on a home internet provider’s network. TrueProxies Residential IPv6 sends each request from a residential IPv6 address in Ashburn, Virginia, United States, unless you use a sticky session. **Will my target work over IPv6 at all?** Check before you buy. A page only works over IPv6 if its document host and every embedded host publish AAAA records, and research on the top 100,000 sites found only 12.6% clear that bar once subresources are counted. The free IPv6 test reports the answer for any URL. **When should I use IPv6 instead of IPv4 proxies?** Use IPv6 when the target supports it end to end and you need a very large rotation pool at a lower cost per exit. IPv4 remains the better choice when maximum site compatibility matters, because most of the web still is not fully IPv6-ready. **How much does Residential IPv6 cost?** Residential IPv6 is priced by speed and term, with unlimited traffic. 20 Mbps: $5.99 a day, $22.99 a week, $69 a month. 50 Mbps: $11.99, $49.99, $149. 100 Mbps: $19.99, $89.99, $279. 200 Mbps: $34.99, $159.99, $499. 500 Mbps: $69.99, $319.99, $999. For 1 Gbps or more, contact Support. **Which locations does Residential IPv6 cover?** Ashburn, Virginia, United States. The addresses are on a home internet provider’s network there. There are no country or city options. For coverage in 150+ countries, use a residential IPv4 plan. **Can I keep one IP for a session?** Yes. A sticky session keeps one IP for the session lifetime you choose, up to 24 hours. Without one, every request gets a new IPv6 address. **Can Residential IPv6 reach IPv4-only websites?** Yes, for light use. A site with no IPv6 address opens through a US IPv4 fallback, with a new address for each connection, while every site with IPv6 still uses the residential network. The fallback has fair-use limits; past them the site is refused with a clear message. For steady work on IPv4-only sites, choose Residential IPv4 Unlimited. **Is there a free trial for Residential IPv6?** No. The free trial is 1 hour of Unlimited Pro. Check your targets with the free IPv6 test before you buy Residential IPv6. --- ## IPv6 proxy servers on datacenter IPv6 URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/datacenter-ipv6/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/datacenter_ipv6 TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 gives each subscription datacenter IPv6 in one city, chosen at checkout from 10 cities. Each new connection gets a fresh address by default; add a session token to hold one address for 10 minutes by default, or up to 24 hours. Plans are priced by speed from $3.99/day, with no per-GB charge. ### IPv6 proxy server FAQ **What is an IPv6 proxy server?** An IPv6 proxy server forwards traffic through an IPv6 exit. TrueProxies runs datacenter IPv6 in the city you choose and picks a fresh address for each new connection. **How much does Datacenter IPv6 cost?** Datacenter IPv6 pricing is by speed tier and term, with no per-GB charge. 25 Mbps: $3.99 a day, $25.99 for 7 days, $69.00 a month. 70 Mbps (recommended): $8.99, $57.99, $139.00. 175 Mbps: $20.99, $135.99, $329.00. 400 Mbps: $44.99, $289.99, $699.00. Every plan includes rotation. **Will my target work over IPv6 at all?** Check before you buy. A target only works over IPv6 if its document host and every embedded host publish AAAA records, and only about 12.6% of the top 100,000 sites clear that bar. The free IPv6 test reports the answer for any URL in a few seconds. **Are IPv6 proxy servers good for web scraping?** They fit workloads whose destinations accept infrastructure-hosted IPv6 and do not penalize a repeated address. Compare successful responses, challenges, latency, and cost on your exact targets before scaling. **Do these proxies rotate?** Yes. A new upstream connection gets a fresh IPv6 by default. Add a session token when you want the same address for a fixed window: 10 minutes by default, or a lifetime you set, up to 24 hours. **Can I choose the location?** Yes, at checkout. Choose one of 10 cities: Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Tokyo or Washington. For a second city, buy a second plan. **Can Datacenter IPv6 reach IPv4-only websites?** No. A destination must publish an IPv6 address. This product does not translate traffic through a shared IPv4 because that would replace the assigned IPv6 identity. --- ## Static ISP proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/static-isp-proxies/ Current plans: https://dashboard.trueproxies.com/buy/isp_dedicated A static ISP proxy is an IPv4 address on an internet provider's network that stays the same while you hold it. IP lookups show the provider, such as Verizon or BT, not a hosting company. Other sellers call these ISP proxies or static residential proxies. TrueProxies sells them per IP, one customer per IP: $0.99 a day, $1.79 a week or $2.69 a month, with no minimum order, on 12 internet providers in 7 countries. ### Static ISP FAQ **Are static ISP proxies the same as ISP proxies or static residential proxies?** Yes. Sellers use all three names for static IPv4 addresses on an internet provider's network. TrueProxies calls them Static ISP. **What is the difference between ISP and residential proxies?** A static ISP proxy is one IP you keep for the whole term. A rotating residential proxy uses a large shared pool and changes IP per connection or session. **Is each static ISP IP dedicated to me?** Yes. Each IP is given to one customer for the term. It stays the same until the term ends. **How much do static ISP proxies cost?** $0.99 per IP for a day, $1.79 for a week and $2.69 for a month. The price is the same in every country and at any quantity, and there is no minimum order. **Can I buy one IP for one day?** Yes, for $0.99 from your balance. Top-ups start at $3 in crypto or $10 by card, and what you don't spend stays in your balance. **Is there a free trial of Static ISP?** No. One IP for a day costs $0.99. The free trial is for Unlimited Pro, which uses rotating residential IPs. **Which countries and providers can I choose?** The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Spain and Hong Kong, with 12 providers between them: Verizon, RCN, Windstream and Pilot Fiber in the US; BT, Orange and Glide in the UK; Deutsche Telekom and Lumen in Germany; Orange in France; GTT in Canada; Aire in Spain; HGC in Hong Kong. The buy page shows what is in stock. **Can I pick a city or ASN?** No. The provider you pick sets the location. For city targeting, use Unlimited Pro. **Can I use static ISP proxies with an anti-detect browser?** Yes. Give each browser profile its own IP's port. The setup guides cover AdsPower, Dolphin Anty, GoLogin, Incogniton, MoreLogin, Multilogin and Octo Browser. **Do static ISP proxies support SOCKS5 and UDP?** Yes. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 all work, and SOCKS5 carries UDP from the same IP to most destination ports. **Is traffic unlimited?** Yes. You pay per IP and term. There is no per-GB charge and no traffic allowance per IP. **Does my IP stay the same when I renew?** Yes, when you renew before the term ends. You can turn on automatic renewal on the service page. **Why does a whois lookup show another country?** Location databases place each IP in its provider's country. A few registry tools show where an address block was first registered, which can differ. Websites use location databases. **Are static ISP proxies legal?** Using them is legal in most places when what you do with them is lawful. Our acceptable use policy lists what is not allowed. --- ## Hourly residential proxies with unlimited traffic URL: https://trueproxies.com/proxies/hourly-residential-proxies/ TrueProxies sells residential proxies per hour: one-hour Residential IPv4 Unlimited plans at 10, 25, 50 or 100 Mbps, from $4.08 an hour at 10 Mbps. Traffic is unlimited at the plan speed, with country and city targeting, rotating or sticky sessions, and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. Renewals raise an invoice, charged to the saved card only when Automatic renewal is on. An hourly plan is cheapest when the job fits in one hour and moves more traffic than a similarly priced traffic pack covers. From 2 hours, a daily plan at the same speed costs less. For light jobs, a small traffic pack can cost less. Of the providers we compared on September 29, 2026 (Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare and SOAX), none listed an hourly or daily residential plan with unlimited traffic on its public pricing page. Each prices residential proxies by the amount of traffic, in gigabytes. ### Hourly residential proxy questions **Can I buy residential proxies by the hour?** Yes. Residential IPv4 Unlimited is sold as one-hour plans at 10, 25, 50 or 100 Mbps, with unlimited traffic at the plan speed. Faster plans, up to 1 Gbps, are sold by the day, week or month. Traffic packs and Datacenter IPv6 are not sold by the hour. **How much does an hourly residential proxy cost?** $4.08 for one hour at 10 Mbps, up to $19.30 at 100 Mbps. Prices are in USD, and there is no per-GB charge on top. **Is an hourly plan cheaper than a daily plan?** Only for short jobs. At every speed sold by the hour, 2 hours of hourly plans cost more than one daily plan at the same speed, so a longer job is cheaper on a daily plan. **How much data can I transfer in one hour?** There is no traffic allowance; the plan speed is the limit. At a constant 10 Mbps, one hour can carry at most 4.5 GB, and at 100 Mbps at most 45 GB. Real jobs move less when destinations respond slowly, requests are retried or connections sit idle. **What happens when my hour ends?** We raise a renewal invoice 15 minutes before the hour ends. It is charged to your saved card only when Automatic renewal is on; otherwise paying it extends the plan from its current end time, and if you don't pay, the plan ends. Automatic renewal is a switch on the service's Billing tab and turns off in one click. **Can I get a refund on an hourly plan?** No. Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Test your targets on one hour at 10 Mbps before you buy more. **Which targeting and protocols do hourly plans include?** Country and city targeting, rotating or sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. Region and ASN targeting are only available on Residential IPv4 Standard and Premium traffic packs. **Can I try it before paying?** Not for free. The free trial is 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, a separate product. On Residential IPv4 Unlimited, the cheapest test is one hour at 10 Mbps for $4.08. --- ## Sell TrueProxies proxies to your own customers URL: https://trueproxies.com/resellers/ Apply from your TrueProxies account. Once approved you buy at up to 15% off list prices, fund a prepaid wallet, add your customers and run their services for them. You set your own prices and support your own customers. ### Four steps from application to your first customer 1. **Apply** Tell us about your business, your customers and the products you want to sell. It takes about ten minutes. 2. **Review** We review applications usually within two business days and may ask for more information or identity checks. 3. **Fund your wallet** Add money by card or crypto. Top-ups are $50 to $10,000 each, up to $5,000 a day. 4. **Add customers and buy for them** Create a managed customer, buy a plan for them from your wallet, and give them their connection details. ### A workspace built for reselling - **Up to 15% off list prices** Your discount is agreed at approval and applies to every purchase and renewal for your managed customers. It never takes an offer below its minimum price. - **Prepaid wallet** One balance pays for all your customers' plans and renewals. Refunds of wallet-paid invoices return to the wallet. - **Managed customers** A record for each of your customers, with their services, invoices and usage kept separate. They have no login and receive no email from us. - **The same catalog** Residential IPv4 Unlimited by speed, residential traffic packs and Datacenter IPv6, at the same list prices as direct customers. - **API and acting on behalf** Create customers, buy and pay from the wallet and read usage with an API key. Add customer_id to act for one of your customers. - **Invoices that bill to you** Every purchase for a managed customer is invoiced to your business with the discount shown, ready for your own accounting. ### Reseller program FAQ **How big is the discount?** Up to 15% off list prices. The exact discount is agreed at approval and applies to every purchase and renewal for your managed customers. Your discount never takes an offer below its minimum price. **Is there a minimum spend?** There is no monthly commitment. Wallet top-ups are $50 to $10,000 each, and you can add up to $5,000 a day. **How do I pay?** You fund a prepaid wallet by card or crypto. Purchases and renewals for your customers are paid from the wallet. Refunds of wallet-paid invoices return to the wallet; the balance is not paid out. **Do my customers get TrueProxies accounts?** No. You create a managed customer record for each of them. It has no login and receives no email from us. You run their services from your account or through the API, and you handle their support. **Which products can I resell?** Residential IPv4 Unlimited by speed, residential IPv4 traffic packs and Datacenter IPv6, from the same catalog and at the same list prices as direct customers. **Is there an API?** Yes. API keys with the reseller permissions can create managed customers, buy and pay for them from the wallet and read their usage. The API reference is in your dashboard and in the docs. **Can I use my own brand?** Your customers use the connection details you give them; they never hear from us. The proxy hostnames are TrueProxies hostnames. A white-label store with your own domain, branded hostnames and checkout is coming soon. **How long does review take?** Usually within two business days. We may ask for more information. You can see the status of your application in your account at any time. **Can I sell to other resellers?** No. Selling to other resellers and sharing credentials outside your own customers are not allowed. **Will you ask for identity checks?** We may ask for identity or business verification before approval or later, and we screen applicants against sanctions lists. Applications from businesses that cannot complete verification are not approved. # Use Cases ## Residential proxies for AI agents and AI data pipelines URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/ai-proxies/ Updated: 2026-10-01 · Reviewed by: John Hale (https://trueproxies.com/blog/authors/john-hale/) Proxies for AI agents give each agent or pipeline worker a residential IP in the location the target expects, instead of funnelling every request through one server address. Through the TrueProxies gateway a plain HTML fetch moved 0.072 MB per page at the median and a full browser render 2.284 MB, measured October 1, 2026 over 50 public pages. Keep one sticky session per agent, rotate between tasks, and block images, fonts and media in headless browsers to cut traffic by about 59%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Proxy type | Residential IPv4 Standard, rotating or sticky sessions | | Pool | 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries (Standard) | | Targeting | Country, region, city, ASN on the username | | Sticky sessions | 1 minute to 24 hours, one session ID per agent | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | | Price | Standard traffic packs from $1.10 for 1 GB down to $0.60/GB | | Measured | 0.072 MB per HTML fetch, 2.284 MB per full render (median) | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps; traffic packs have no trial | | Not offered | Mobile carrier IPs, LLM API gateways | ### What an AI proxy is, and what it isn't "AI proxy" means three different things, and only one of them is this page. First, an IP proxy that AI agents and data pipelines use to reach websites through other addresses and locations, so a browser agent in a US workflow arrives from a US consumer connection rather than a cloud datacenter. That is what TrueProxies sells and what the rest of this page covers. Second, an LLM API gateway or reverse proxy such as LiteLLM, Kong or APISIX, which sits between your code and a model provider to route, log and meter model calls. It moves prompts, not page loads, and it does not change the IP a website sees. Third, a "proxy URL" in AI roleplay chat apps, which is a relay for a chat API key. Neither of those is an IP proxy, and a residential proxy does nothing for them. ### Which proxy fits your AI workload Match the proxy to how the workload moves bytes. Agents that think between page loads are latency-bound and light on traffic; crawlers that feed a training set are the opposite. The product that fits is the one whose billing unit matches that shape. | Workload | Product | Session | Why | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | LLM-paced browser agent | Residential IPv4 Standard (traffic pack) | Sticky, one session per agent | Latency-bound; residential IPs for protected sites; pay only for the GB the agent moves | | HTTP fetch pipelines, RAG retrieval | Residential IPv4 Standard (traffic pack) | Rotating | Tens of kilobytes per page; rotation spreads load across exits | | Large crawls for training data | Residential IPv4 Standard, 100 GB or 1,000 GB tier | Rotating | $0.97/GB or $0.81/GB at those tiers | | IPv6-reachable targets at scale | Datacenter IPv6 | Datacenter space in one city; rotating by default, sticky on demand | From $3.99/day; check targets with the IPv6 test first | | Location-specific checks (prices, search results by country) | Residential IPv4 Standard or Premium with country, city, region or ASN targeting | Sticky | Arrive from the location the target serves | | Mobile-only targets | Not offered | n/a | TrueProxies sells no mobile carrier IPs; pair with a mobile specialist | Residential IPv4 Unlimited plans are not listed here on purpose: AI crawlers are the usage profile that time-based plans fit worst. Traffic packs bill the bytes you actually move. ### What AI traffic costs per 1,000 page loads MB per page equals GB per 1,000 pages, so one measured number sets the budget. We loaded the same 50 public pages (news, documentation, product pages, blog posts and forum threads, one per domain) three ways through the TrueProxies residential gateway on October 1, 2026: a plain HTTP fetch of the HTML, a headless Chromium with images, fonts and media blocked, and a full Chromium render. Bytes are what the gateway billed, scaled from the browser's own network accounting by the measured factor of 1.381. A full render moved 31.7x the traffic of the HTML fetch. Blocking images, fonts and media cut the full-render figure by 59%, which is the single cheapest optimisation for a browser agent that only needs text. The scripts, the URL list and the raw results are public, under the MIT licence. | Workload | MB per page | 1 GB tier | 100 GB tier | 1,000 GB tier | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | HTTP fetch, HTML only | 0.072 | $0.08 | $0.07 | $0.06 | | Browser, images, fonts and media blocked | 0.934 | $1.03 | $0.91 | $0.76 | | Browser, full render | 2.284 | $2.51 | $2.22 | $1.85 | Medians over 50 pages; successful loads only, including loads that reached the 30-second cap with the document in hand. Pack prices: 1 GB $1.10, 100 GB $0.97/GB, 1,000 GB $0.81/GB. Heavier sites cost more; the 75th percentile of a full render was 3.72 MB. - [Scripts and raw results on GitHub](https://github.com/trueproxies-com/ai-proxy-configs) ### Sizing an agent fleet An HTTP worker holds about one connection at a time. A browser is greedier: over a 10-page subset routed through a counting relay, Chromium peaked at 22 concurrent tunnels on one page load with a full render and 26 with assets blocked, with medians of 12 and 6. The peak is set by how many hosts a page pulls from at once, not by what you block, and Chromium's own ceiling is 32 sockets per proxy. Size the fleet on the free trial before buying: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps. Then buy the Traffic pack whose per-GB price matches the volume you measured. ### Sticky sessions for multi-step agent tasks A multi-step task (log in, search, open a result, read it) should keep one exit IP from start to finish. A mid-task IP change looks like an account takeover to the site and resets whatever state the agent built. Give every agent its own session ID, set the lifetime to at least the longest task, and rotate between tasks rather than inside them. Sticky sessions on Standard traffic packs last from 1 minute to 24 hours and are set on the proxy username: `USER-country-de-session-agent01-lifetime-600` keeps one German exit for ten minutes under the session ID `agent01`. Set the lifetime explicitly rather than relying on a default. For independent fetches (RAG retrieval, a crawl of unrelated URLs) leave the session off and let the gateway rotate per request. - [Sticky vs rotating proxies](https://trueproxies.com/blog/sticky-vs-rotating-proxies/) - [Residential IPv4 Standard: targeting and sessions](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-gb/) ### What a proxy changes for an AI agent, and what it doesn't An agent that runs from a cloud host arrives at every site from a datacenter address. Many sites classify that traffic as automated before the first page finishes loading, serve a different version, or rate-limit the whole range. A residential exit in the target's own market removes that first signal and lets the agent see what a local user sees. It does not remove the others. Browser fingerprints, cookie state, request rhythm and account history are still visible to the site, and a residential IP that many agents share gets a reputation of its own. Treat the proxy as one input to a reliable pipeline, measure success rates on your real targets, and budget bytes before you budget agents. ### IPv6 for AI crawlers Datacenter IPv6 gives a crawler datacenter space in one city, rotating by default with sticky sessions on demand, from $3.99/day. It only works where the target serves IPv6: a host with no AAAA record cannot be reached from an IPv6-only exit at all. Run the target through the IPv6 test first, and keep residential IPv4 for everything that fails it. - [Test whether a site serves IPv6](https://trueproxies.com/tools/ipv6-test/) - [Datacenter IPv6 proxies](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/datacenter-ipv6/) ### Tested configs for AI frameworks Each integration page below was run through the TrueProxies gateway with the version named on the page: the config, the measured traffic per page and the errors we hit, with fixes. They are written for self-hosted and open-source setups; the Firecrawl and Browser Use cloud plans bundle their own proxies. - [Crawl4AI proxy configuration and rotation](https://trueproxies.com/integrations/crawl4ai/) - [Self-hosted Firecrawl with residential proxies](https://trueproxies.com/integrations/firecrawl/) - [Browser Use proxy setup with one session per agent](https://trueproxies.com/integrations/browser-use/) - [All integrations](https://trueproxies.com/integrations/) ### Responsible use Collect public data only. Respect robots.txt, site terms and text-and-data-mining opt-outs, keep request rates reasonable, and never use an agent to access accounts, credentials or paywalled content you are not entitled to. A proxy changes the network location of a request; it does not change what you are allowed to do with the response. The acceptable use policy applies to every service. - [Acceptable use policy](https://trueproxies.com/acceptable-use/) ### FAQ **What is an AI proxy?** On this page, an IP proxy that AI agents and data pipelines use to reach websites from residential addresses in the location the target expects. The term is also used for LLM API gateways that route model calls, and for relay URLs in AI chat apps; neither of those changes the IP a website sees. **Do AI agents need residential proxies?** Not always. Datacenter IPv6 is enough for targets that serve IPv6 and do not filter hosting networks. Residential IPs are the better fit for sites that classify datacenter traffic, for location-specific results and for multi-step tasks that need one consistent consumer-looking exit. **Should AI agents use rotating or sticky sessions?** Sticky for any multi-step task, one session ID per agent with a lifetime at least as long as the task. Rotating for independent fetches such as RAG retrieval or a crawl of unrelated URLs. Never rotate inside a task. **How much do proxies for AI agents cost?** It depends on how the agent loads pages. Measured through the gateway, an HTML fetch moved 0.072 MB per page at the median and a full browser render 2.284 MB, so 1,000 full renders cost about $2.51 on the 1 GB tier and $1.85 at the 1,000 GB tier. Blocking images, fonts and media cuts the browser figure by about 59%. **Does TrueProxies work with Browser Use, Crawl4AI and Firecrawl?** Yes. Each tool was run through the gateway with a pinned version; the integration pages carry the exact config, the proxy setting that applies, one-session-per-agent examples, measured traffic per page and the errors we hit. **Do you offer mobile proxies for AI agents?** No. TrueProxies sells residential IPv4 and Datacenter IPv6. Residential IPs cover most web targets an agent meets; for in-app or carrier-targeted work, pair TrueProxies with a mobile specialist. **Is this an LLM API proxy like LiteLLM or OpenRouter?** No. Those route and meter calls to model providers. TrueProxies routes HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 traffic from your agent to websites through residential or datacenter IPs. You can use both in one stack: the gateway for model calls, the proxy for page loads. **Is collecting web data for AI with proxies legal?** This is general information, not legal advice. Collecting public data is lawful in many jurisdictions, but site terms, robots.txt, text-and-data-mining opt-outs, personal-data rules and copyright all apply regardless of the IP you use. Keep a provenance log, honour opt-outs, and review your pipeline with counsel. --- ## Proxies for AI training data collection URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/ai-training-data/ Updated: 2026-10-01 · Reviewed by: John Hale (https://trueproxies.com/blog/authors/john-hale/) Proxies for AI training data are worth paying for only on the sources open datasets do not cover: fresh pages, country-specific sites and the long tail. Measured through the TrueProxies gateway, a page held about 990 tokens of main text at the median, so a million tokens cost $0.06 of traffic with an HTML fetch at the 1,000 GB tier and $1.87 with a full browser render. Start with Common Crawl and the official dumps, then proxy the gaps with rotating residential IPs on a Traffic pack. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Proxy type | Residential IPv4 Standard, rotating per request | | Pool | 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries (Standard) | | Targeting | Country, region, city, ASN on the username | | Measured | 990 tokens per page; 0.073 GB per million tokens as HTML | | Price | Standard traffic packs from $1.10 for 1 GB down to $0.60/GB | | Packs | 1 GB to 5,000 GB. Traffic never expires | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps; traffic packs have no trial | ### Start with open datasets, proxy only the gaps Most of the public web you would crawl for a training set already exists as a download. Common Crawl publishes monthly archives of billions of pages, Wikipedia and Wikimedia ship full dumps, and many sources offer official APIs or bulk exports under clear licences. Those cost no proxy traffic, carry provenance, and are what the large models were built on. Proxies earn their price on what the dumps miss: pages published since the last archive, sites that serve different content by country or language, sources behind geographic restrictions, and the long tail that crawlers never reached. Use residential exits for those, record every fetch, and keep the proxied share of the corpus small and deliberate. ### Cost per million tokens We fetched 50 public pages (news, documentation, product pages, blog posts and forum threads) through the TrueProxies residential gateway on October 1, 2026, extracted the main text with trafilatura and counted it with tiktoken's o200k_base encoding. The median page held 990 tokens, so a million tokens is about 1,010 pages. Multiply by the MB each pipeline moves per page and you have the traffic bill. | Pipeline | GB per 1M tokens | 1 GB tier | 100 GB tier | 1,000 GB tier | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | HTTP fetch, HTML only | 0.073 | $0.08 | $0.07 | $0.06 | | Browser, assets blocked | 0.943 | $1.04 | $0.91 | $0.76 | | Browser, full render | 2.307 | $2.54 | $2.24 | $1.87 | Billed bytes, scaled from client-side accounting by the measured factor of 1.381. Pack prices: 1 GB $1.10, 100 GB $0.97/GB, 1,000 GB $0.81/GB. Token counts vary by site and language; measure your own sources before sizing a pack. - [Scripts and raw results on GitHub](https://github.com/trueproxies-com/ai-proxy-configs) ### HTTP fetch or headless browser A plain HTTP fetch gets the HTML and nothing else: 0.072 MB per page at the median in our test. A full browser render loads scripts, styles, images, fonts, trackers and ads, 2.284 MB per page, or 31.7x more, for the same text. Render only when the text is built by JavaScript, and when you do, abort image, font and media requests: that alone cut the browser figure by 59%. Check a sample of each source with both methods before the crawl. If the HTML fetch already contains the article body, the browser is wasted traffic and wasted time; our browser loads took several times longer than the fetches through the same exits. ### What proxies change for a training crawl, and what they don't A crawler from one cloud range hits every site from the same neighbourhood of addresses. Sites rate-limit the range, serve the foreign-visitor edition, or block it, and the corpus ends up skewed toward whatever let the crawler in. Residential exits in the right countries fix the vantage point and spread the load. They do not make a site's terms, robots rules or opt-outs go away, and they do not turn a scraped page into a licensed one. Budget bytes with the measured figures above, keep the proxied share of the corpus to the sources that need it, and log everything. ### Geo and language coverage Standard traffic packs exit from 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries, with country, region, city and ASN targeting on the username. That is how a multilingual corpus gets the local edition of a site rather than the version served to foreign datacenters: a German exit for the German pages, a Japanese exit for the Japanese ones, each recorded with the exit country in the provenance log. - [Browse proxy locations by country](https://trueproxies.com/locations/) ### Throughput for crawlers A training crawl is the rotating-session case: no session ID on the username, so every request can take a fresh exit and the load spreads across the pool. Keep per-domain rates polite regardless; a proxy does not change a site's rate limits. For volume, the 100 GB and 1,000 GB Standard traffic packs bring the price to $0.97/GB and $0.81/GB, and the ladder continues to $0.60/GB at 5,000 GB. Traffic never expires. Top-ups add to the same service, and unused traffic stays until you use it. For crawls that only need a country, Residential IPv4 Lite has our lowest price per GB. ### Data hygiene Deduplicate at the document and near-duplicate level, strip boilerplate before counting tokens, and keep a provenance record for every page: URL, fetch time, HTTP status, exit country and the extraction method. The record is what lets you honour an opt-out or takedown later without rebuilding the corpus, and it is what makes a dataset auditable. ### Compliance Not legal advice. Follow robots.txt, honour text-and-data-mining opt-outs (including the machine-readable kinds) and site terms, and handle personal data under the rules of the jurisdictions you collect in and serve from. Providers of general-purpose AI models in the EU carry a copyright-policy duty under the AI Act, which includes respecting rights reservations. Keep the provenance log, and review the pipeline with counsel before it feeds a model. - [Acceptable use policy](https://trueproxies.com/acceptable-use/) ### FAQ **How much traffic does a million tokens of web text take?** About 0.073 GB with a plain HTML fetch and 2.307 GB with a full browser render, at the median page we measured (990 tokens of main text, 0.072 MB as HTML). At the 1,000 GB tier that is $0.06 and $1.87 per million tokens. **Rotating or sticky sessions for training crawls?** Rotating, per request, unless a source needs one exit across several pages (a paginated listing, a site that keys content to the first visit). Leave the session ID off the username for rotation and add one only for those sources. **Do I need residential IPs for AI training data?** Not for open datasets or sites that serve everyone the same page; download those directly. Residential IPs are for sources that serve different content by country, filter datacenter ranges, or rate-limit shared cloud addresses. **Can I target specific countries and languages?** Yes. Standard traffic packs exit from 150+ countries with country, region, city and ASN targeting written on the username, so each source is fetched from the audience it serves and the exit country is part of the provenance record. **Do traffic packs expire?** No. Traffic never expires. Top-ups add to the same service, and unused traffic stays until you use it. **Is collecting AI training data with proxies legal?** This is general information, not legal advice. The IP you use does not change the rules: site terms, robots.txt, text-and-data-mining opt-outs, personal-data law and copyright all apply, and EU general-purpose model providers carry a copyright-policy duty. Keep a provenance log, honour opt-outs and review the pipeline with counsel. --- ## Instagram proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/instagram-proxies/ Residential IPv4 with sticky sessions for Instagram workflows, plus an honest account of what a proxy does and does not change. ### What Instagram actually inspects Instagram weights session continuity heavily. A request arriving from a network the account has never used, paired with a browser fingerprint it has never seen, is the combination most likely to produce a login challenge. Changing the IP mid-session is more disruptive here than on most platforms, which makes rotation the wrong default. Its public surface is also narrower than it used to be. Profile and hashtag pages that once loaded anonymously increasingly require an authenticated session, so a large amount of what people describe as Instagram scraping now means authenticated access, and that is governed by Instagram's terms rather than by your proxy configuration. For data about assets you own, the Instagram Graph API is the supported route and needs no proxy at all. Proxies belong to the workflows the API does not cover: checking how a public profile or ad renders from a specific market, and verifying regional delivery. It is worth being clear about when a proxy is the wrong tool here. If you are managing accounts you own, Instagram's own tooling and the Graph API cover it without a proxy. If you are trying to operate accounts at a scale the platform does not permit, no network configuration makes that durable, and the cost of a restriction usually exceeds whatever the workflow was worth. Proxies earn their place in observation work: seeing what a market sees, verifying delivery, and checking public rendering from outside your own network. ### FAQ **Do Instagram proxies need to be residential?** For authenticated workflows, datacenter ranges are the most commonly challenged, so residential IPv4 is the usual starting point. For public pages that still load anonymously, cheaper routes may work. Measure both against your specific targets rather than assuming. **Should Instagram proxies rotate?** Generally not. Instagram treats session continuity as a trust signal, so rotating the exit inside a session tends to produce more challenges rather than fewer. Use one sticky identifier per account and keep it stable. **How many Instagram accounts per IP?** Instagram does not publish a number, and anyone who quotes one is guessing. The defensible practice is one residential exit per account identity. Sharing an exit across accounts is the clearest linkage signal you control. **Will a proxy stop my account being restricted?** No. A proxy changes network origin only. Platforms evaluate device and browser fingerprints, account history, and behavioral signals alongside IP, and any of those can trigger review on its own. Follow each platform's terms and test with non-critical accounts. **Can I collect Instagram data without a proxy?** For assets you own, yes. The Instagram Graph API is the supported route for your own accounts and needs no proxy. Proxies matter when you need to observe how public content renders from a particular market. **What rate limits does Instagram apply?** Instagram publishes no request limits for its web surface, so any specific figure is guesswork. It throttles dynamically on a combination of account age, session history, and request pattern. Establish a sustainable rate empirically and stay well below where responses degrade. **Do Instagram proxies help with login challenges?** Only indirectly. Using an exit consistent with the account's history avoids one trigger, but challenges also fire on device, browser, and behavioral signals. A proxy removes one cause among several rather than solving challenges as a class. **Are datacenter proxies usable for Instagram?** For authenticated work they are the most commonly challenged category. For anonymous checks of content that still loads publicly they may be adequate and cost less. Test the specific surface you need rather than applying a blanket rule. --- ## TikTok proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/tiktok-proxies/ Residential IPv4 exits for verifying what TikTok serves in a specific market, rather than what it serves you. ### TikTok results genuinely differ by region On most platforms, regional variation is a detail. On TikTok it is the product. Content availability, recommendation mix, and which sounds and effects are usable vary by market as a matter of policy and licensing, not just personalisation. A feed observed from one country is not evidence of what another country sees. That makes region-matched observation the actual requirement for anyone doing brand monitoring, campaign verification, or availability testing. Without an exit in the target market you are measuring your own market and reporting it as someone else's. TikTok also runs device attestation on its apps that a proxy has no bearing on. Web collection avoids that surface but has its own aggressive rate limiting on discovery endpoints. Expect the ceiling to be request pacing rather than address reputation. A proxy is the wrong tool for parts of this. Anything requiring the mobile app's attested environment is not solved at the network layer, and account-bearing workflows carry the same risks they do anywhere. What proxies genuinely fix is the geography problem: TikTok's regional variation is real and by design, so observing a market from outside it produces a confidently wrong answer. That is the case where a country-matched exit is not an optimization but the difference between evidence and guesswork. ### FAQ **Why do TikTok proxies need country targeting?** Because TikTok's content availability and recommendations vary by market by design. Without an exit in the market you are reporting on, you are measuring your own region and mislabelling it. Country selection is the whole point here. **Do TikTok proxies work with the mobile app?** Partially. The app performs device-level attestation that a network proxy does not address, so app behavior may differ from what a proxied session sees. Web collection is the more predictable surface for verification work. **How fast can I send TikTok requests?** TikTok does not publish a limit for its web surface, so any specific number would be invented. Establish your own sustainable rate with a small paced run, then hold below the point where responses degrade. **Will a proxy stop my account being restricted?** No. A proxy changes network origin only. Platforms evaluate device and browser fingerprints, account history, and behavioral signals alongside IP, and any of those can trigger review on its own. Follow each platform's terms and test with non-critical accounts. **Should TikTok proxies rotate or stay sticky?** For anonymous regional observation, rotating across a pool spreads request load and suits the workload. For anything authenticated, use sticky sessions and keep the exit stable, as you would on any platform with account state. **Does TikTok publish rate limits?** Not for its web surface. Discovery endpoints throttle aggressively and the threshold is not documented, so treat any published number as invented. Establish your own ceiling with a small paced run before scaling concurrency. **Can I test TikTok ad delivery by country?** Regional delivery differs, so country-matched exits are what make the observation meaningful. Verify the exit resolves to the intended market before capturing anything you intend to report as regional evidence. **Why do my TikTok results differ between runs?** Recommendation output varies by session even within one region, which is why a single observation is not evidence. Repeat the query across runs and against a control market before treating a difference as regional. --- ## Twitter proxies and X proxy access URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/twitter-proxies/ Residential IPv4 for X collection, with a clear account of what the login wall and API repricing actually changed. ### What changed on X, and what it means for collection X repriced and restricted its API to a degree that pushed a large amount of research and monitoring work toward browser-based collection. That shift is the reason demand for Twitter proxies and X proxy access exists at all: the supported route became unaffordable for many use cases that previously used it. At the same time, anonymous browsing of the site has been progressively restricted. How much is visible without a session has changed repeatedly, so any guidance stating a fixed rule about what loads logged out will be wrong within months. Verify the current behavior rather than trusting a claim of either kind. The practical consequence is that a proxy solves the network half of this problem and none of the rest. If your workflow needs an authenticated session, that is governed by X's terms, and the account risk is real regardless of how good the exit is. Be realistic about what this does not fix. If X's terms do not permit your collection, a proxy does not change that, and the platform has enforced against automated access. If the supported API covers your use case at a price you can pay, use it: it is more stable than any browser-based route and carries none of the same risk. Proxies are the pragmatic answer where the API's scope or pricing genuinely does not fit, and where the data is public. ### FAQ **Is an X proxy the same as a Twitter proxy?** Yes. The platform renamed from Twitter to X, and both terms describe the same requirement: a proxy that routes requests to the same service. Older tooling and documentation still use the Twitter name throughout. **Do I need a proxy if I use the X API?** No. Supported API access needs no proxy. Proxies are relevant when API pricing or scope does not fit the use case and collection moves to the browser surface instead, which is what drove most current demand. **Can I browse X without logging in?** It has varied. X has changed anonymous access repeatedly, so any fixed claim here dates quickly. Test current behavior at the start of each collection cycle rather than designing around a rule that may have changed. **Will a proxy stop my account being restricted?** No. A proxy changes network origin only. Platforms evaluate device and browser fingerprints, account history, and behavioral signals alongside IP, and any of those can trigger review on its own. Follow each platform's terms and test with non-critical accounts. **Should X proxies rotate?** For anonymous collection, rotating spreads load across the pool and suits the workload. For authenticated sessions, keep one sticky identifier per account, since mid-session address changes are a common trigger for challenges. **What are X's rate limits for browsing?** X has applied view limits at various points and does not publish a stable figure for the browser surface. Because the policy has changed repeatedly, measure current behavior rather than designing against a number from an article of unknown age. **Is scraping X against its terms?** X's terms restrict automated access, and they have been enforced. Read the current terms for your use case and treat account risk as real. Supported API access remains the route least likely to create problems where its pricing fits. **Do I need residential IPs for public X data?** Where content loads without a session, cheaper routes may work. Where a session is required, datacenter ranges attract challenges quickly. Test the specific surface, since the boundary between the two has moved several times. --- ## Facebook proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/facebook-proxies/ Residential IPv4 exits for regional ad verification and public data, with Meta's linkage signals stated plainly. ### Meta links accounts on more signals than any other platform Meta operates the most developed account-linkage systems in consumer social. It correlates device fingerprints, browser characteristics, behavioral patterns, and network history across its properties, and it has far more history to correlate against than a newer platform does. A shared exit across account identities is one of the clearest signals you can hand it. That makes multi-account work on Facebook the highest-risk category on this site, and it is worth saying directly: a proxy does not make it safe. It changes one signal among many, and account restrictions on Meta properties can extend across connected assets including ad accounts and pages. The workflows where proxies are genuinely useful are the public ones. The Facebook Ad Library is publicly accessible and is the supported way to see what advertising runs in a given country. Regional ad delivery genuinely differs, so a country-matched exit is what makes that verification real rather than assumed. The honest summary for Meta is narrower than for other platforms. Proxies are genuinely useful for one thing here: observing public regional delivery, principally through the Ad Library, from an exit in the market under review. For everything else, either the Graph API covers it because you own the asset, or the workflow involves account identities where Meta's linkage systems and the consequences of a restriction make a proxy a poor substitute for compliance with its terms. ### FAQ **Are Facebook proxies safe for multi-account use?** No proxy makes multi-account use safe on Meta. It correlates device, browser, behavioral, and account signals in addition to IP, and restrictions can extend across connected pages and ad accounts. Follow Meta's terms and treat the account risk as real. **How many Facebook accounts per proxy?** Meta publishes no figure and any quoted number is invented. If distinct identities are involved at all, the defensible practice is never sharing an exit between them, since a shared address is the linkage signal most directly under your control. **Can I check Facebook ads in another country?** Yes. The Facebook Ad Library is publicly accessible, and regional delivery genuinely differs, so a country-matched residential exit is what makes the observation evidence rather than assumption. This is the strongest proxy use case on the platform. **Will a proxy stop my account being restricted?** No. A proxy changes network origin only. Platforms evaluate device and browser fingerprints, account history, and behavioral signals alongside IP, and any of those can trigger review on its own. Follow each platform's terms and test with non-critical accounts. **Do I need a proxy for my own Facebook pages?** No. The Graph API is the supported route for assets you own and requires no proxy. Proxies are for observing what other markets see, not for managing your own properties. **Does Meta publish rate limits?** For the Graph API, yes, and those documented limits apply to your own assets. For public web surfaces it publishes nothing, so pace conservatively and measure where responses begin to degrade rather than working to an assumed number. **Can I use proxies to run Facebook ad accounts?** Ad account restrictions on Meta can extend across connected pages and assets, and a proxy does not reduce that exposure. Treat ad account work as governed by Meta's terms, not by network configuration. **Which Facebook data is genuinely public?** The Ad Library is publicly accessible and is the intended route for seeing what advertising runs in a market. Most other surfaces require a session, which brings the account risk described above. --- ## Reddit proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/reddit-proxies/ Residential IPv4 for Reddit collection, on a platform that documents its limits instead of leaving you to guess them. ### Reddit is the one platform that tells you the rules Reddit is unusual in this set: it publishes an API with documented rate limits and requires a descriptive, uniquely identifying user agent. Requests that share a generic user agent are rate limited more aggressively, which is a documented behavior rather than a guess. That makes compliant collection genuinely achievable here in a way it is not on platforms that publish nothing. Because limits are enforced per client and per address, the constraint on volume collection is request budget rather than address reputation. Distributing across residential exits raises the ceiling, but the correct first step is authenticating properly and setting a real user agent, which costs nothing and resolves most throttling. Reddit also repriced API access, which pushed some work toward the web surface. The same principle applies there: identify your client honestly and pace requests. Reddit's own guidance is the source worth following rather than any third-party claim about safe rates. For a large share of Reddit work, a proxy is simply unnecessary, and saying so is more useful than selling one. A properly authenticated client with a descriptive user agent operating inside the documented budget will not be throttled, and that costs nothing to set up. Proxies become relevant at aggregate volumes a single client cannot cover, or for anonymous collection where the per-address limit is the binding constraint. Reaching for them before fixing authentication is the common and expensive mistake. ### FAQ **Do I need a proxy for Reddit?** Often not. Reddit publishes an API with documented rate limits, and authenticating properly with a descriptive user agent resolves most throttling. Proxies matter when aggregate volume exceeds what a single client can budget for. **Why is my Reddit client being rate limited?** Most commonly because of a generic or missing user agent. Reddit documents that requests sharing a common user agent are throttled more aggressively. Set a unique descriptive one before assuming the address is the problem. **Should Reddit proxies rotate?** For anonymous public collection, yes, rotating spreads request budget across the pool, which is the actual constraint. For authenticated API work, respect the documented per-client limit rather than trying to route around it. **Will a proxy stop my account being restricted?** No. A proxy changes network origin only. Platforms evaluate device and browser fingerprints, account history, and behavioral signals alongside IP, and any of those can trigger review on its own. Follow each platform's terms and test with non-critical accounts. **Is scraping Reddit allowed?** Reddit's API terms govern what is permitted, and they have changed. Read the current terms and its public content policy before collecting. The documented API with proper authentication is the route least likely to create problems. **What are Reddit's documented rate limits?** Reddit publishes limits for authenticated API clients and returns remaining budget in response headers on each call. Read those headers and back off on what they report, rather than inferring a threshold from failed requests. **Does a proxy raise my Reddit rate limit?** Not for an authenticated client, where the limit is enforced per client. Distributing across exits raises the aggregate ceiling for anonymous collection only. Fix authentication and user agent first, since that resolves most throttling. **What user agent should a Reddit client send?** A unique, descriptive one identifying your application and a contact. Reddit's documentation states that clients sharing a generic user agent are rate limited more aggressively, which makes this the cheapest fix available. --- ## Web scraping proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/web-scraping/ Collect data through the 50M+ Residential IPv4 Standard pool, with rotation and location controls across 150+ countries. ### Scraping at scale breaks without the right IPs Destinations can rate-limit or challenge automated traffic based on network origin, request rate, address reputation, account behavior, browser signals, and other controls. A proxy changes the route; it does not guarantee access. Datacenter ranges are easier to classify as hosted infrastructure, while residential proxies use ISP-origin addresses. Whether that changes the response depends on the destination and the rest of the request behavior. Residential IPv4 can help test localized content, distribute authorized requests across a larger pool, and keep one exit during a multi-page flow. Measure successful responses, retries, challenges, latency, and usable exit geography on the exact target. Use rotation only where independent requests permit it, use sticky sessions where a flow needs continuity, respect destination terms and rate limits, set explicit timeouts, and cap retries so failures do not create uncontrolled traffic. ### FAQ **What type of proxy should I test for web scraping?** Start from the target requirements. Residential IPv4 is worth testing for ISP-origin traffic or granular geography; Datacenter IPv6 may fit targets that accept infrastructure IPv6. Compare successful responses and cost. **What are the limits of proxy rotation for scraping?** Rotation can distribute independent requests across available exits, but it does not prevent rate limits, browser fingerprinting, or repeated-address assignment. Respect target limits and measure the result. **Can I use TrueProxies with Scrapy or Puppeteer?** Yes. TrueProxies works with Scrapy, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium, Beautiful Soup, and any tool that supports standard HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy configuration. **Can AI agents and LLM data pipelines use the same proxies?** Yes. Browser agents, RAG retrieval and training crawls all run through the same gateway. Agents keep one sticky session per task; pipelines rotate per request. The AI agents page carries measured traffic per page for HTML fetches, asset-blocked browsers and full renders, and tested configs for Crawl4AI, Firecrawl and Browser Use. **Should I use unlimited or pay-per-GB proxies for scraping?** Choose unlimited if you run large or continuous crawls. Choose a traffic pack if you scrape in short bursts or are still estimating your bandwidth requirements. **Do residential proxies guarantee access through anti-bot services?** No. Residential origin is one signal among many. Challenge and block decisions depend on the destination, address reputation, request behavior, browser signals, and account context. --- ## SEO proxies for rank tracking and monitoring URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/seo-monitoring/ Track rankings, SERP features, and competitor positions from selected locations — then verify the exit IP and SERP. ### Search results aren't the same everywhere Search results can vary by location, device, language, account state, and history. A proxy controls network origin, but it does not remove every source of personalization. Build a repeatable rank-tracking request, confirm the exit IP location, and compare results across multiple runs before treating a position as representative of a market. ### FAQ **Why do I need proxies for SEO rank tracking?** Search results can vary by location and other signals. Residential proxies let you test from available ISP-origin markets, but you should also control language, device, account state, and query parameters. **Which proxy type is best for SERP monitoring?** Residential IPv4 Standard can fit periodic checks because it bills transferred data. Compare it with an unlimited speed-and-duration plan after measuring one representative run. **Can I track local search rankings with TrueProxies?** Residential IPv4 Standard covers 150+ countries with country, city, region, and ASN targeting. Unlimited supports country and city targeting on its separate pool. **How many proxies do I need for SEO monitoring?** That depends on keywords, locations, concurrency, response size, retry rate, and schedule. Measure a representative batch before choosing capacity. **Do SEO tools work with TrueProxies?** Yes. Any rank tracker or SEO tool that supports custom proxy input via HTTP or SOCKS5 works with TrueProxies, including SE Ranking and custom scripts. --- ## Ad verification proxies: see the ad a local user sees URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/ad-verification/ Updated: 2026-09-30 · Reviewed by: John Hale (https://trueproxies.com/blog/authors/john-hale/) Ad verification proxies route each check through a residential IP in the market you are auditing, so you see the creative, placement, redirect chain and landing page a local user gets, not the version a cloaked campaign shows to office and datacenter IPs. TrueProxies sells residential IPv4 with city and ASN targeting on Residential IPv4 Standard, 1 GB for $1.10, with evidence templates for every check. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Proxy type | Residential IPv4, rotating or sticky sessions | | Pool | 50M+ IPs (Standard) · 16M+ IPs (Unlimited) | | Countries | 150+ | | Targeting | Country, region, city, ASN (Standard, Premium) · Country, city (Unlimited) | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | | Price from | 1 GB for $1.10 · $4.08/hour unlimited | | Evidence | JSON and CSV templates, field dictionary, preflight checker | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps | | Not offered | Mobile carrier IPs, ZIP targeting | ### Why ad checks need a local residential IP Local viewpoint. Campaigns are targeted by country, region, city and ISP, and the ad server decides what to show from the visitor's IP before the page finishes loading. An office connection sees one market, usually not the one you are auditing. A residential exit in the target city returns the creative, placement and landing page that a household there receives. Cloaking. Some advertisers serve a compliant page to the IP ranges of ad networks, verification vendors, offices and datacenters, and a different payload to consumer IPs. Google's research paper [Cloak of Visibility](https://research.google/pubs/cloak-of-visibility-detecting-when-machines-browse-a-different-web/) measured the technique across search and ad traffic, and GeoEdge's guide to [using proxy services to QA ad campaigns](https://www.geoedge.com/university/using-proxy-services-to-qa-ad-campaigns/) shows how it looks in practice. A check from a residential IP is the practical way to see the consumer-facing version. Fraud, brand safety and compliance. Placement and adjacency checks, regulated-ad rules that differ by jurisdiction (gambling, alcohol, finance, pharmaceuticals) and affiliate redirects that route by country all need a vantage point inside the market. A screenshot taken from the wrong country proves nothing in a dispute. Invalid-traffic filtering. Industry invalid-traffic guidelines treat known data-center traffic as non-human, so ad stacks often filter it or serve it something else. A datacenter IP can therefore return fewer ads, different ads or a clean page. A residential IPv4 exit is not classified as hosting traffic at the network layer. Publishers can still evaluate browser and behavior signals, so record the exit and the response rather than assuming anything about either. ### Residential vs mobile vs datacenter vs ISP proxies for ad verification Ad stacks classify the network an IP belongs to before they decide what to serve, so the proxy type sets what a check can see. Residential IPv4 covers most web display, search and landing-page work. Mobile carrier IPs matter for in-app and carrier-targeted campaigns. Static ISP addresses suit long logged-in sessions. Datacenter IPs are the cheapest and the most likely to be filtered or cloaked. TrueProxies sells residential IPv4 (Standard and Premium with city, region and ASN targeting, Lite with country targeting, and Unlimited with country and city targeting), Datacenter IPv6 and Static ISP, static IPv4 addresses kept for a day, a week or a month. It does not sell mobile carrier IPs or ZIP targeting. If your campaigns target carriers or run inside apps, pair TrueProxies with a mobile specialist. [Residential vs mobile proxies for ad verification](https://trueproxies.com/blog/residential-vs-mobile-proxies-for-ad-verification/) works through the decision channel by channel. | Proxy type | Seen by ad stacks as | Geo precision | Best for | Weak at | TrueProxies | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Residential (rotating or sticky) | Consumer ISP user | Country to region, city and ASN | Display, search and landing-page checks; cloaking re-checks | Heavily reused IPs can be flagged | Yes: Standard and Premium (city, region, ASN) and Unlimited (country, city) | | Mobile (carrier) | Carrier user | Country and carrier | In-app and carrier-targeted campaigns | Cost per check | Not offered; pair with a mobile specialist | | Static ISP | Fixed consumer-ISP IP | Few countries | Long logged-in dashboards | Limited geography | Yes: per IP, by the day, week or month | | Datacenter | Hosting network | Country or city of the host | Redirect status checks where cloaking is not a risk | Filtered as invalid traffic; shown the clean page | Datacenter IPv6 only; not recommended for ad checks | ### Ad verification checks you can run Each check below is one HTTP or browser session through a residential exit, with the same evidence fields recorded every time. Run it once for a spot check or on a schedule for monitoring. The "Capture" line names the fields from the evidence kit that make the result comparable across markets and repeatable in a dispute. **Geo-targeting and placement checks** Load the publisher page, search result or app landing page from a residential IP in the targeted country or city and confirm the campaign is served there, in the right slot, with the right creative. Repeat from a city the campaign excludes to confirm it is not served. Country- and city-level checks run on Unlimited, Standard or Premium; region and ASN checks need a Standard or Premium traffic pack. Capture: exit IP reference, exit country, requested and final URL, creative ID, placement ID, screenshot, timestamp. **Cloaking and malvertising detection** Open the same ad and landing page from a datacenter exit and from a residential exit in the same city, then compare. A cloaked campaign returns a compliant page to the datacenter route and a different destination, a forced redirect or an auto-download to the consumer route. Treat one difference as a lead to repeat, not as proof; two consistent repeats from different residential exits are evidence. Capture: network origin, redirect chain, final URL, HTTP status, screenshot, challenge result, repeat count. **Affiliate links and redirect chains** Follow every hop of an affiliate or tracking link from each market you pay for. Geo-routed links often send visitors to a different storefront per country, drop tracking parameters on the way, or land on a page that does not match the offer. Record each hop's status code and host so a broken chain can be shown to the network. [How to test affiliate links by country](https://trueproxies.com/blog/test-affiliate-links-by-country/) walks through the procedure. Capture: redirect chain with status codes, whether tracking parameters survived, final URL, timestamp. **Competitor ad monitoring** Google's Ads Transparency Center and Meta's Ad Library list a brand's ads by region for free and are the place to start. They do not show where an ad runs on publisher sites, what the landing page serves locally, or what price a local visitor sees. A residential check from the market fills those gaps. Do not click competitor ads during a check; loading the page is enough. Capture: publisher, placement, creative, landing page, local price, timestamp. **Regulated ads and brand safety by jurisdiction** Gambling, alcohol, finance and health ads are legal in some regions and not others, and a placement next to unsafe content is a brand-safety failure only in the market where it appears. Check from inside each jurisdiction and keep the screenshot with the exit country attached so a regulator or client can see what was served where. Capture: exit country and region, placement, adjacent content, screenshot, timestamp. **Localized landing pages and prices** Campaigns often route to country-specific landing pages with local currency, stock and offers. Load the landing page through a residential exit in each market and compare currency, price, language and the offer shown against the campaign brief. The same check catches a redirect to a global fallback page when a country-specific one was expected. Capture: final URL, locale, currency and price shown, screenshot, timestamp. ### What ad verification proxies can and cannot prove An ad verification proxy routes a check through another network location so you can inspect the creative, publisher placement, redirect path, and landing page returned there. It can reveal a mismatch worth investigating, but a proxy result does not prove fraud by itself. Datacenter and residential exits may receive different content when a publisher or ad platform classifies network origin. Compare both when origin-specific behavior is part of the investigation. Residential IPv4 provides consumer-ISP exits and location controls. Publishers can still evaluate other request and browser signals, so do not describe the verification request as indistinguishable from a person. Capture the exit IP, timestamp, requested and final URLs, HTTP status, creative, placement, screenshot, and account state for each check. Report sample size, success rate, challenge rate, and test date when comparing markets. Repeat suspicious results before escalating them. ### Where proxies fit next to DoubleVerify, IAS, GeoEdge and HUMAN Tag-based verification vendors such as DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, GeoEdge and HUMAN measure campaigns at scale from inside the ad call: viewability, invalid traffic, brand-safety scoring and blocking of bad creatives. Their measurement covers every impression the tag sees. It does not reproduce what one visitor in one city receives from one publisher at one moment. Proxy checks are the independent, reproducible spot check that sits next to that measurement: pre-launch geo QA before a campaign spends, re-verifying a vendor alert from a residential vantage point, evidence for a dispute with a network or an affiliate, and redirect audits the tag never sees. GeoEdge's own guide to [QA-ing campaigns with proxy services](https://www.geoedge.com/university/using-proxy-services-to-qa-ad-campaigns/) and the IAB's [guidelines for the conduct of ad verification](https://www.iab.com/guidelines/guidelines-for-the-conduct-of-ad-verification/) describe the same division of labor. Proxies do not replace measurement at scale; they answer the question a dashboard cannot. ### Cost per 1,000 ad checks Traffic packs bill transferred data, so the cost of a check is the data it loads. A redirect-chain check that follows the hops without loading images or scripts moves a fraction of a megabyte. A full browser render with a screenshot moves a few megabytes. A video-heavy publisher page can move ten or more. The sizes below are the medians measured on 30 September 2026 across 50 loads per check type (ten publisher homepages and five YouTube watch pages, fresh browser context per load, bytes read from the HAR; 41 of the 50 full renders completed within 60 seconds) from a direct connection, with the 90th percentile beside each; residential exits in each market are measured next and the table updated. The price columns use the published Standard traffic pack rates: 1 GB for $1.10 on the smallest pack, down to $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB traffic pack. | Check type | Data per check (measured) | Per 1,000 checks at $1.10/GB (median) | Per 1,000 checks at $0.60/GB (median) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Redirect chain only (document requests, no images or scripts) | 0.8 MB median · 5.6 MB p90 | $0.88 | $0.48 | | Full render with screenshot | 3.8 MB median · 6.4 MB p90 | $4.18 | $2.28 | | Video-heavy page (YouTube watch page, 8 s of playback) | 7.6 MB median · 9.7 MB p90 | $8.36 | $4.56 | Residential IPv4 Unlimited at 10 Mbps for one day ($7.35) can move up to 108 GB at full utilization: a theoretical maximum of about 28,000 full renders at 3.8 MB, with country and city targeting only. A redirect check that reads only the response headers of each hop moves a few kilobytes instead of the whole document. Real throughput depends on the targets and your concurrency, so measure one representative batch before choosing a plan. | Market | Residential IPv4 pool | City coverage | Snapshot verified | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | United States (https://trueproxies.com/locations/usa-proxies/) | 10.5M+ | 50+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | United Kingdom (https://trueproxies.com/locations/united-kingdom-proxies/) | 3.5M+ | 20+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | Germany (https://trueproxies.com/locations/germany-proxies/) | 3.5M+ | 25+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | Spain (https://trueproxies.com/locations/spain-proxies/) | 4.0M+ | 20+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | France (https://trueproxies.com/locations/france-proxies/) | 2.9M+ | 20+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | Netherlands (https://trueproxies.com/locations/netherlands-proxies/) | 1.5M+ | 12+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | Japan (https://trueproxies.com/locations/japan-proxies/) | 3.6M+ | 20+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | Australia (https://trueproxies.com/locations/australia-proxies/) | 2.3M+ | 15+ cities | 2026-07-12 | | Canada (https://trueproxies.com/locations/canada-proxies/) | 3.0M+ | 20+ cities | 2026-07-12 | Pool and city figures come from the residential IPv4 market snapshot of 12 July 2026, published with its evidence ID on each country guide. Region and ASN targeting are Standard and Premium controls; Unlimited plans target these markets by country and city. Cost per check is the same in every market; only the pack size changes the rate. - [Ad verification cost per check: the bandwidth and proxy math](https://trueproxies.com/blog/ad-verification-cost-per-check/) - [Residential IPv4 Standard](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-gb/) - [Proxy cost calculator](https://trueproxies.com/calculator/) ### FAQ **What are ad verification proxies?** They route a check through an IP in the market you are auditing, so the ad server returns what a local user gets: the creative, placement, redirect chain and landing page. Residential IPs matter because ad stacks and cloaked campaigns treat datacenter traffic differently from consumer ISP traffic. **Are ad verification proxies legal?** Viewing public ads and landing pages through a proxy is generally lawful. Problems come from how the traffic is used: do not click ads you do not pay for, respect site terms you have accepted, and follow the acceptable use policy. For regulated sectors, check local advertising rules with counsel. This is not legal advice. **Can ad networks detect residential proxies?** Some can. Ad stacks and fraud tools score IPs by network type, reputation and behavior, and heavily reused residential IPs get flagged. Fresh exits, realistic sessions and a preflight check of the exit reduce that risk. No provider can promise zero detection, and TrueProxies does not. **Should I use residential or mobile proxies for ad verification?** Residential for web display, search and landing-page checks, where city and ASN targeting matter most. Mobile carrier IPs for in-app ads and carrier-targeted campaigns. TrueProxies sells residential, not mobile; if your campaigns target carriers, pair it with a mobile provider. **Are datacenter proxies good for ad verification?** Rarely. Invalid-traffic guidelines treat known data-center traffic as non-human, so many ad stacks filter it or serve it different ads, and a cloaked campaign shows datacenter visitors a clean page. Datacenter IPs are fine for checking redirect status codes where cloaking is not a risk. **Can I use IPv6 proxies for ad verification?** Only for part of the job. An IPv6-only exit cannot load ad or landing-page hosts that have no AAAA record, and IPv6 geolocation is less consistent than IPv4. Use residential IPv4 for verification; Datacenter IPv6 suits dual-stack targets you have tested first. **How much does ad verification with proxies cost?** It depends on what each check loads. A redirect-chain check that reads whole documents measured 0.8 MB at the median; a full render with a screenshot measured 3.8 MB. At 3.8 MB per check, 1,000 checks use 3.8 GB: $4.18 at the 1 GB Standard traffic pack rate ($1.10/GB) or $2.28 at the 5,000 GB traffic pack rate ($0.60/GB). The cost table above shows every measured size. **Can I verify ads in several countries at the same time?** Yes. Open one session per market, each with its own country or city targeting on the username, and run the checks in parallel. Log the exit IP reference, location and timestamp with every capture so results from different markets stay comparable. **Can I check Google or Meta ads in another country without a proxy?** Partly. Google's Ads Transparency Center and Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool, and Meta's Ad Library, show ads by region for free. They do not show how ads render on publisher sites, what a cloaked landing page serves locally, or localized prices. Proxies cover those gaps. **How do I test affiliate links by country?** Open the link from a residential IP in each market and record every redirect hop, the final URL and whether tracking parameters survive. Geo-routed affiliate links often send users to a different storefront per country. The Playwright example above records the chain in one run. **Which TrueProxies plan should I use for ad verification?** Residential IPv4 Standard: city, region and ASN targeting, 1 GB for $1.10 and down to $0.60/GB on large traffic packs, which covers most ad checks. Residential IPv4 Unlimited for high-volume monitoring where country- or city-level targeting is enough, priced by speed from $4.08 per hour. Datacenter IPv6 is not built for ad verification. **What can't a proxy check prove?** A check shows what one IP, location and session received at one moment. It does not prove what every user saw, measure viewability, or detect invalid traffic at scale. Treat it as evidence for a specific claim and record the method with each capture. **Is there a free trial for ad verification proxies?** Yes: the free trial, 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, no card and no automatic charge. ASN checks need a Standard or Premium traffic pack; Standard starts with the 1 GB traffic pack for $1.10, and neither has a trial. --- ## Market research proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/market-research/ Compare pricing, product availability, and competitive positioning across selected network locations while controlling account, language, device, and timing. ### Network location is one input to market research E-commerce and travel sites can vary pricing, inventory, or availability by location, account state, language, device, request parameters, and browsing history. A proxy changes the network route only. Compare controlled requests and record the exit IP before attributing a result difference to geography. ### FAQ **How do proxies help with competitive pricing intelligence?** Proxies add selected network locations to controlled pricing checks. Compare account state, language, device, request parameters, timing, and the exit IP before attributing a result difference to geography. **Can I monitor competitor websites across different countries?** Yes. Residential IPv4 supports country selection across 150+ countries. Confirm any finer control exposed for the routed network and record the returned exit before treating a response as representative of a specific region. **What proxy type is best for price monitoring?** Traffic packs are cost-effective for scheduled price checks. Unlimited plans are better if you monitor thousands of product pages continuously. **Can TrueProxies proxies access geo-restricted content?** Residential IPv4 can request content through a selected country exit, but destination acceptance and returned content are not guaranteed. Verify the exit IP and response on each representative target. **Is web scraping for market research legal?** Legality varies by jurisdiction and the type of data collected. TrueProxies provides the proxy infrastructure; users are responsible for complying with applicable laws. --- ## Social media proxies for account management URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/social-media-management/ Test account workflows with Residential IPv4 sticky sessions, consistent browser profiles, and verified exit geography. ### What applies across every platform A residential proxy changes network origin. That is the whole of what it does. Platforms evaluate device and browser fingerprints, account history, and behavioral patterns alongside the address, and any one of those can trigger review on its own, so no proxy configuration prevents account linkage. Beyond that shared baseline, platforms differ in their rules and regional content. Check each platform's terms before testing a permitted workflow. The X and Reddit guides below cover their documented public-data options. Two rules hold everywhere. Follow each platform's terms, and test with non-critical workflows before scaling, because account restrictions carry material consequences that a proxy does not insure against. ### FAQ **Can I manage multiple social media accounts with proxies?** You can configure separate session identifiers for permitted account workflows. This reduces accidental session overlap but does not guarantee unique exits or prevent platform linkage and review. **Which session type is best for social media management?** Test sticky sessions when a workflow needs IP continuity. Reusing a session identifier can reduce unplanned rotation, but it does not guarantee a fixed address or prevent platform review. **Which platform guide should I read?** The X and Reddit guides describe documented public-data workflows. Start with the platform you actually work on and follow its terms. **How many proxies do I need per social media account?** No platform publishes a figure, and any number quoted is invented. Where distinct account identities are involved, the defensible practice is never sharing an exit between them, since a shared address is the linkage signal most directly under your control. --- ## Brand protection proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/brand-protection/ Monitor global marketplaces for counterfeits, unauthorized sellers, and trademark abuse — from the perspective of a selected residential market exit. ### Brand abuse adapts faster than enforcement teams Marketplace content can vary by geography, account, language, and network origin. One office IP provides only one observation point. Residential exits add regional vantage points, but findings still need timestamps, screenshots, URLs, repeated checks, and human review. ### FAQ **How do proxies help with brand protection?** Proxies add network and geography vantage points for marketplace, reseller, and search-result checks. Review and repeat findings before treating them as evidence of abuse. **Can I monitor Amazon and eBay listings with TrueProxies?** You can test standard proxy connectivity where the marketplace permits it. Residential origin does not guarantee access or remove platform controls. **Which proxy plan should I test for brand monitoring?** Traffic packs can fit measured periodic scans; unlimited plans price recurring transfer by speed and duration. Compare both with one representative monitoring batch. **Can brand protection proxies detect phishing sites?** A proxy can show whether a suspicious domain returns different content or redirects by location. Use isolated security tooling and do not treat a proxy result alone as proof that a site is safe or malicious. **Do I need proxies in multiple countries for brand protection?** Use the markets relevant to your brand and distribution footprint. TrueProxies publishes 150+ country coverage; confirm current availability for each required selector. # Residential Proxy Locations URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/ Availability basis: Measured in-country exits through the Residential IPv4 Standard route. Numeric facts basis: Probe measurements, plus a sanitized aggregate inventory snapshot where one is published. Limit: Inventory evidence does not guarantee a particular live exit, city, or network on an individual request; customers must verify representative exits. ## Afghanistan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/afghanistan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 31 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 3 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 0. Networks seen: 3 (Ankabut Internet Service Provider, Rahanet Internet Service Provider, Unique Atlantic Telecommunication). Median response time: 620 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AF · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online buying in Afghanistan runs mostly through phones, classifieds and social media rather than full online stores. Listings, news and ads appear in Dari and Pashto, often with English alongside, and prices are quoted in afghanis (AFN). Cash on delivery settles most orders, and mobile money such as Roshan's M-Paisa and the HesabPay wallet covers much of the rest, since PayPal and Stripe do not support Afghan accounts. Most people go online through mobile data from operators such as Roshan, AWCC and state-owned Salaam, so pages are best reviewed in their mobile versions. Leelam.af is the largest classifieds marketplace, listing used cars, phones, electronics, rentals and jobs by city, which makes it the practical source for comparing asking prices in Kabul, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar. Ad checks usually centre on domestic news sites such as TOLOnews, Pajhwok Afghan News and Ariana News, and on Facebook, where many shops sell through pages instead of their own websites. Google is the search engine in everyday use, for Dari and Pashto queries in Arabic script as well as for English ones. Connectivity is the main practical constraint. Fibre internet was cut province by province from mid-September 2025, and internet and mobile data went down nationwide for about 48 hours from 29 September to 1 October 2025, so scheduled monitoring should expect gaps and retry rather than read missing pages as a change in the market. Afghanistan has no general data-protection law. Domestic flights stand in for long road journeys between Afghan cities, so airfares are the clearest travel prices to compare. Kam Air links Kabul with Herat, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif and Khost, and flies abroad to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Jeddah, Riyadh, Doha, Kuwait, Islamabad, Delhi and Tashkent, while the state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines serves several of the same cities. Demand on the Saudi routes rises around the Hajj and Umrah seasons, so fares to Jeddah and Riyadh follow the religious calendar rather than school holidays. Checking airline sites from inside Afghanistan shows which fares, currencies and payment options local buyers are offered for these routes. --- ## Albania residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/albania-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 49 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 11 (Tirana, Peqin, Shkoder, Lezhë, Peshkopi). Networks seen: 24 (One Albania Sh.a, Vodafone Albania Sh.A, Albanian Satellite Communications sh.p.k). Median response time: 510 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AL · Review by: 2026-11-30. Lek and euro prices sit side by side in Albanian e-commerce. Everyday goods are priced in lek (ALL), but flats, houses and many cars are advertised in euros, so one listing site can show both currencies. Cash on delivery is still a standard checkout option, and many product pages lead with courier fees and payment on arrival rather than card forms. Because Kosovo shares the language, Albanian-language searches and shops often cross the border in both directions, and many people type without the letters ë and ç, so keyword checks should cover both spellings. Merrjep.al is the country's largest classifieds site, covering cars, property, jobs and used goods, and Duashpi.al is a dedicated property portal whose asking prices are mostly quoted in euros. Gjirafa50, the Kosovo-based electronics retailer, now sells to Albanian buyers through its own Gjirafa50.al storefront with Albanian delivery terms. Baboon handles restaurant, grocery and shop delivery in Tirana, Durrës, Korça and Vlora. Top Channel, Balkanweb and Panorama are the news brands where local display and video campaigns tend to appear. Hotel and apartment rates on the southern coast around Saranda and Ksamil change sharply between the summer season and the rest of the year. Google is the search engine that matters, but Albanian-language results can mix pages from Albania and Kosovo, so a ranking check from inside Albania shows which .al sites actually win for local buyers. Personal data falls under Law No. 124/2024 on Personal Data Protection, which replaced the 2008 law and took effect on 1 February 2025. Travel pricing in Albania runs through Tirana International Airport, where Wizz Air opened a base in 2020 and Ryanair also bases aircraft, so fares to Italy and other European cities are set largely by low-cost carriers. Air Albania, the former flag carrier, is defunct, which leaves no national airline to benchmark against. The other gateway is the sea: ferries from Durrës connect mainly with Bari and Ancona, with some sailings to Trieste. Anyone comparing routes between Albania and Italy should price flights and ferry crossings side by side, including vehicle fares on the ferries, because the two compete for the same travellers. --- ## Algeria residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/algeria-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 57 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 25 (Algiers, Blida, Tizi Ouzou, Batna City, Oran). Networks seen: 1 (Telecom Algeria). Median response time: 510 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-DZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Algerian e-commerce runs in two languages. Arabic dominates search, social media and the largest news sites, while French remains common on retail sites, product listings and business pages, so localisation checks need both. Prices are in dinars (DZD). Most online orders are still paid in cash on delivery, carried by couriers such as Yalidine that ship between wilayas. Online card payment relies on domestic cards: the interbank CIB card and Algérie Poste's Edahabia card, used with its BaridiMob app. Ouedkniss is where Algerian buyers and sellers start: a classifieds site for cars, phones, property and jobs, and the single most useful source for second-hand price tracking. Yassir, founded in Algeria, runs ride-hailing, food delivery, grocery delivery and a payment wallet from one app. Jumia has left Algeria, so many brands sell through their own sites and social pages instead of a pan-African marketplace. For publisher monitoring, Echorouk and El Khabar are the major Arabic-language dailies, while TSA Algérie and El Watan publish in French. Google is the dominant search engine, and Arabic and French queries for the same product return different result sets, so ranking checks should run in both languages from Algerian connections. Personal data is governed by Law No. 18-07 of 10 June 2018 on the protection of natural persons in the processing of personal data, amended by Law No. 25-11 of 24 July 2025 and enforced by the ANPDP. Algeria's administrative map changed in November 2025, when 11 new wilayas were created in the Hauts Plateaux and the south, including Aflou, Barika and Ksar Chellala, bringing the total to 69. Most online demand still sits on the Mediterranean coast, in Algiers, Oran, Constantine and Annaba, while the Saharan south, from Ouargla to Tamanrasset, is far from the main courier hubs; Yalidine's own site lists coverage of 55 wilayas, so delivery options at checkout depend on the region. In Kabylie, around Tizi Ouzou and Béjaïa, Tamazight, an official language since 2016, appears in signage and social content alongside Arabic and French, which matters for localised campaigns. --- ## Angola residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/angola-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 58 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 45 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Luanda, Benguela). Networks seen: 8 (UNITEL, Sociedade de Investimento e Participacoes, TV CABO ANGOLA LDA). Median response time: 1400 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Portuguese runs through everything online in Angola: storefronts, apps and search results. Prices are set in kwanza (AOA). Online buying is concentrated in Luanda, where the delivery apps and courier networks operate, and checkout pages lean on local payment rails rather than international cards. Multicaixa Express, the banking app on the EMIS Multicaixa network, sits beside the Unitel Money and Afrimoney wallets, and cash on delivery is still common. The kwanza has weakened sharply against the dollar in recent years and menu and product prices tend to be revised in bursts, so price series need regular collection with the date of each reading. The platforms worth watching are mostly Angolan-built. Tupuca and Kubinga are Luanda super apps that bundle food delivery, groceries and taxi booking, and Tupuca accepts Multicaixa Express, PayPay, Unitel Money and Afrimoney in one checkout. Yango competes with both for rides. AngoCasa is the largest property portal and the practical source for rents and sale prices in Talatona, Kilamba and central Luanda. For news and business coverage, Jornal de Angola, Novo Jornal and the weekly Expansão are where local display ads and sponsored content appear. Google is the default search engine. Portuguese-language queries from Angola can return Brazilian and Portugal-based pages next to Angolan ones, so ranking checks should run from Angolan connections with a Portuguese interface. Personal data is covered by Lei n.º 22/11 de 17 de Junho, the Personal Data Protection Law of 2011, enforced by the Agência de Protecção de Dados (APD). Luanda is only part of the picture. Cabinda, the province that produces most of Angola's oil, is an exclave separated from the rest of the country by a strip of DR Congo territory, so goods and people reach it by air, by sea or across a foreign border. On the coast further south, Lobito and Benguela sit at the start of the Lobito Corridor, the rebuilt Benguela Railway that carries copper from the DR Congo and Zambia to the port of Lobito. Inland, Huambo and Lubango are the main highland cities. Delivery apps and online stores thin out quickly beyond Luanda, so price and availability checks for these cities need their own connections and baselines. --- ## Argentina proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/argentina-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 64 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 42 (Buenos Aires, Mendoza, González Catán, La Rioja, Laferrere). Networks seen: 31 (Telefonica de Argentina, Telecom Argentina, Starlink). Median response time: 1200 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 228K+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Argentina's largest marketplace, Mercado Libre, was founded in Buenos Aires in 1999, and its Mercado Pago wallet is now accepted far beyond the marketplace itself. Storefronts use Rioplatense Spanish and price consumer goods in Argentine pesos (ARS), while flats and houses on Zonaprop and Argenprop are normally listed in US dollars. Shoppers weigh how many cuotas sin interés (interest-free installments) each bank card gets as closely as the sticker price, so the financing on a product page can change with the card chosen and with weekday bank promotions. Beyond Mercado Libre, teams track Frávega for appliances and electronics, Coto Digital for groceries, Despegar for flights and hotels, and PedidosYa and Rappi for restaurant menus and delivery fees. Many small Argentine brands sell through their own stores on Tiendanube, the local store-building platform, rather than only through marketplaces, so brand and price checks have to cover those sites too. The retail calendar peaks at Hot Sale in May and CyberMonday in November, both organized by the Cámara Argentina de Comercio Electrónico (CACE). Google is the search engine nearly everyone uses, and local results for the same query differ between Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza. Marketplace shipping costs and delivery estimates also change between the Buenos Aires metropolitan area and the provinces. Clarín, La Nación and Infobae are the national news sites where most display ad checks start. Personal data is covered by Law 25.326 on Personal Data Protection (2000), supervised by the Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP), and any project that collects personal information should be checked against it. Domestic travel is a price market of its own. Aerolíneas Argentinas and the low-cost JetSMART Argentina fly most domestic routes from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, the airport inside Buenos Aires city, while Ezeiza handles most international traffic. Long-distance buses from the Retiro terminal remain the budget alternative for trips to Córdoba, Mendoza and the Atlantic coast. Demand follows the school calendar: January and February send Buenos Aires families to Mar del Plata and the coast, and the July winter holidays fill Bariloche during the ski season at Cerro Catedral. Long weekends created by the government's feriados puente produce their own peaks, so fare and hotel checks should be scheduled around those dates as well. --- ## Armenia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/armenia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 54 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 7 (Yerevan, Vagharshapat, Gyumri, Abovyan, Nor Nork). Networks seen: 18 (Arpinet, Ucom, LikeNet). Median response time: 530 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Armenian shoppers read sites in Armenian first, with Russian widely understood and English common on tech and travel pages, so a single store often keeps three language versions. Prices are in drams (AMD). Cards on the local ArCa network sit beside Visa and Mastercard at checkout, and the Idram and Telcell wallets are widely used for paying bills and online orders. Parcel-forwarding services that ship orders from US, European and Chinese stores are also widely used, so foreign marketplaces compete directly with local ones. List.am is the country's dominant classifieds site, covering apartments, cars, electronics and jobs, and it is the usual source for tracking rents and used-goods prices in Yerevan, Gyumri and Vanadzor. Menu.am, now operated by Yandex's local food-delivery company, and Glovo handle restaurant and grocery delivery in Yerevan, while Wildberries and Ozon ship to local pickup points and compete on price with Armenian electronics chains such as Zigzag. News.am, Armenpress and CivilNet are common targets for display-ad checks. Google is the main search engine, but Yandex keeps a following among Russian-speaking users, so Russian-language rankings are worth checking on both. Many queries, especially for technology and travel, are typed in Russian or English, or in Armenian written with Latin letters, so a keyword list built only in Armenian script misses part of the demand. Personal data is governed by the Law on Protection of Personal Data (HO-49-N), adopted on 18 May 2015. Travel pricing in Armenia runs on a few fixed routes and strong seasons. South Caucasus Railway, operated by Russian Railways under a long concession, runs the Yerevan to Tbilisi and Batumi sleeper through Gyumri and Vanadzor, plus a summer-only train from Yerevan to Hrazdan and Lake Sevan. Most foreign visitors arrive through Zvartnots airport outside Yerevan. Domestic demand splits by season: Lake Sevan and Dilijan in summer, the ski slopes of Tsaghkadzor in winter and the spa town of Jermuk year-round, so guesthouse and hotel rates in those towns follow the calendar. Yerevan tour operators also sell day trips to Garni, Geghard and Khor Virap. --- ## Aruba residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/aruba-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 47 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 1 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Oranjestad). Networks seen: 1 (SERVICIO DI TELECOMUNICACION DI ARUBA (SETAR)). Median response time: 580 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Aruban sites work across four languages: Papiamento is the everyday language and shares official status with Dutch, while English and Spanish serve the island's visitors and its many residents from Venezuela and Colombia. Prices are in Aruban florins (AWG), fixed at 1.79 per US dollar, and US dollars are accepted almost everywhere, so hotels, tours and restaurants aimed at visitors usually quote USD while supermarkets and utilities bill in florins. For goods not sold on the island, residents typically order from US websites through freight forwarders. The monitoring list is short but distinct. Diario, Bon Dia Aruba and 24ora publish in Papiamento, and Aruba Today calls itself the island's only English newspaper, so ad checks need to cover both audiences. Grocery and household prices sit with Super Food Plaza, which runs its own online shop, and the PriceSmart warehouse club, and mobile data comes from Setar and Digicel. Tourism is the largest industry and most visitors fly in from the United States; hotel rate checks usually compare the high-rise resorts along Palm Beach with the low-rise properties on Eagle Beach. Google is the default search engine, but Dutch-language queries can pull in results from the Netherlands, so ranking checks for Aruban hotels, restaurants and tour operators work best from an Aruban connection. Aruba is not part of the European Union. Personal data falls under its own Landsverordening persoonsregistraties (AB 2011 no. 37), the national ordinance on personal data registrations, and any collection of names or contact details should be assessed under it first. Fare comparisons for Aruba start with the airport's connections. Queen Beatrix International Airport has US border preclearance, so passengers bound for the United States clear US immigration and customs before departure. American, Delta, United, JetBlue and Southwest fly in from their US hubs, KLM and TUI fly Netherlands link Oranjestad with Amsterdam, and Avianca, Copa, LATAM and Wingo connect the island with Bogotá, Panama City and Lima. Short hops to Curacao run on Divi Divi Air and Winair. Cruise ships also dock in Oranjestad. Because air fares and package prices depend heavily on the departure city, a rate check for Aruba should note which gateway each price was quoted from. --- ## Australia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/australia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 38 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 6 (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide). Networks seen: 12 (TPG Telecom, Microplex PTY, Superloop). Median response time: 1000 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 2.3M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AU · Review by: 2026-11-30. Australian prices are shown in AUD with the 10% goods and services tax already included, and since July 2018 overseas sellers and marketplaces have collected GST on imported goods worth A$1,000 or less, so a visitor in Australia and a visitor abroad can be quoted different totals for the same listing. Delivery estimates and shipping fees follow the postcode, and metro Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane addresses usually get faster options than regional Western Australia, the Northern Territory or Tasmania. Time zones add a second layer: Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory skip daylight saving, so from October to April a sale that opens at midnight in Sydney opens at 11 pm in Brisbane. Afterpay, which started in Australia, sits beside Zip, PayPal and cards at many checkouts. Teams tracking prices and assortment usually start with Amazon.com.au, eBay Australia and JB Hi-Fi for general merchandise, and with Woolworths and Coles for groceries, where specials change every week and the products offered depend on the delivery address. Gumtree carries much of the second-hand market, and realestate.com.au leads property search, with listings, auction results and rents that differ sharply between capital cities. Google handles the large majority of Australian searches, and its local packs and Shopping results change from city to city, so a ranking checked from Perth can differ from one checked in Sydney. Bing is the main alternative and feeds Microsoft Advertising placements. Personal information is covered by the Privacy Act 1988 and its 13 Australian Privacy Principles, amended in December 2024, and a second round of reforms was released as an exposure draft on 31 August 2026. Australia's sales calendar follows its own tax year and southern-hemisphere seasons. The financial year ends on 30 June, so June brings end-of-financial-year sales on computers, office furniture, cars and appliances as businesses buy before the tax year closes. Amazon.com.au takes part in Prime Day, usually held in July, and Black Friday and Cyber Monday have become major Australian events in late November. Because Christmas falls in summer, Boxing Day sales on 26 December land in peak season for air conditioners, barbecues and swimwear rather than winter goods, so seasonal price comparisons with Europe or North America only work when the dates are aligned. --- ## Azerbaijan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/azerbaijan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 63 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Baku, Yevlakh). Networks seen: 11 (Aztelekom, Uninet, azeronline Joint Enterprise). Median response time: 580 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Azerbaijani storefronts are written in Azerbaijani in Latin script, usually with a Russian version and sometimes an English one, and prices are in manat (AZN). Buying on installments is a defining habit: bank-issued taksit cards let shoppers split payments for phones, appliances and furniture over several months, and retailers such as Kontakt and Baku Electronics show installment terms beside the cash price. Local bank cards cover most online payments, and many shops still offer payment in cash or by card on delivery. Second-hand and local trade is concentrated on a few sites: Tap.az for general goods, Turbo.az for cars and Bina.az for apartments and houses, which together give a clear read on prices and rents in Baku, Ganja and Sumgayit. Birmarket, the marketplace known as Umico until July 2025 and now part of PASHA Holding's Bir ecosystem, sells alongside Trendyol's Azerbaijani storefront, and Wolt runs food and grocery delivery in Baku. Baku accounts for most listings and the fastest delivery; outside the capital, stock is thinner and delivery slower. Instagram is a major sales channel for smaller Baku shops, many of which have no website. Report.az, APA, Trend and Oxu.az are the major news sites for publisher checks. Google is the main search engine, with Yandex still used for Russian-language queries, so a retailer with both language versions should be checked on each. Personal data falls under the Law on Personal Data (No. 998-IIIQ) of 11 May 2010; projects that store names, phone numbers or other personal details from listings should be checked against it. Travel prices centre on Baku but reach well beyond it. AZAL, the national carrier, absorbed its low-cost brand Buta Airways in 2023 and flies from Baku to the Nakhchivan exclave, which has no direct land link to the rest of Azerbaijan, so air fares are the main way to price that trip. Mountain resorts set the domestic hotel calendar: Shahdag in the Qusar district and Tufandag near Gabala fill during the ski season, while Gabala and Sheki draw summer visitors from Baku and the Gulf states. Caspian beach hotels north of Baku are busiest in July and August, so resort rate checks need the travel dates fixed. --- ## Bahamas residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bahamas-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 30 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Nassau). Networks seen: 1 (Cable Bahamas). Median response time: 380 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BS · Review by: 2026-11-30. Bahamian dollars (BSD) trade one to one with the US dollar and the two circulate side by side, so local shops, resorts and classifieds quote either currency. The Central Bank of The Bahamas also issues the Sand Dollar, a digital version of the Bahamian dollar rolled out nationwide in October 2020 and distributed through authorized financial institutions. English is the language of commerce, and online shopping leans on Florida: many residents order from US websites and bring parcels in through freight and customs brokers in Nassau. The market splits across islands. New Providence, home to Nassau and Paradise Island, holds most of the population and retail; Grand Bahama centers on Freeport; and the Family Islands such as Exuma, Abaco and Eleuthera are served by smaller stores, mailboats and domestic flights, so the same goods cost more away from Nassau. Price teams track Super Value and Solomon's for groceries, BahamasLocal.com for classifieds, cars and business listings, Bahamas Realty and Damianos Sotheby's International Realty for property, Atlantis Paradise Island and Baha Mar for resort rates, and Bahamasair for inter-island fares. The Tribune, The Nassau Guardian, Eyewitness News and the public broadcaster ZNS are the main local news sites for ad checks. Google is the standard search engine, and its map results for the same query differ between Nassau and Freeport. Mobile service comes from BTC and Aliv. Personal data falls under the Data Protection (Privacy of Personal Information) Act, 2003, and projects that gather personal information should be reviewed against it. Getting to and around the islands shapes Bahamian travel prices. Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau has US border preclearance, so US-bound passengers clear US immigration before leaving, and American, Delta, JetBlue, United, Air Canada and British Airways connect it with Miami, Atlanta, New York, Toronto, Montreal and London. Inside the country, Bahamasair runs the widest domestic network, Western Air serves Freeport, George Town, Marsh Harbour and Bimini, and Southern Air Charter, Flamingo Air and Pineapple Air cover smaller routes such as North Eleuthera. Cruise passengers form a separate market: Nassau is one of the busiest cruise ports in the region, and Royal Caribbean's Perfect Day at CocoCay sits in the Berry Islands. --- ## Bahrain residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bahrain-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 62 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 37 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Manama, Hamad Town, Saar, Isa Town). Networks seen: 3 (Beyon B.s.c, Stc Bahrain B.s.c Closed, Zain Bahrain B.s.c). Median response time: 690 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BH · Review by: 2026-11-30. Bahrain's online market is small and tightly linked to its neighbours. The King Fahd Causeway connects the island to Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, and many regional stores serve Bahraini shoppers from catalogs shared with their Saudi or UAE sites while quoting prices in BHD. The dinar divides into 1,000 fils, so prices carry three decimals (BHD 12.500), a format that price parsers built for two-decimal currencies can misread. Storefronts run in Arabic and English, and BenefitPay, the national wallet run by The BENEFIT Company, appears at checkout beside cards and cash on delivery. The platforms teams usually monitor are noon, which now delivers locally in Bahrain, dubizzle Bahrain for cars and second-hand goods, Property Finder Bahrain for rentals and sales across the four governorates, and Talabat and Keeta for food delivery. Keeta launched in January 2026, which makes it the newest competitor on delivery fees and first-order promotions. Rents on Property Finder Bahrain vary sharply between areas such as Juffair, Seef, Amwaj Islands and Riffa, so area-level checks matter more than a national average. Gulf Daily News is the main English-language daily, while Akhbar Al Khaleej, Al Ayam and Al Watan serve Arabic readers. Google is the default search engine, and Arabic results for Bahraini queries can surface Saudi and UAE pages beside local ones, which is why a vantage point inside the country matters for rank checks. Personal data falls under Law No. 30 of 2018 with respect to Personal Data Protection, in force since August 2019. Hospitality demand in Bahrain follows the causeway. Visitors from Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province drive over for weekends and holidays, so hotel rates in Manama, Juffair and Seef and restaurant bookings tend to rise from Thursday to Saturday and around the Eid holidays, then ease midweek. Gulf Air, the national carrier, flies from Bahrain International Airport on Muharraq island, and residents often compare its BHD fares with flights from King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, a drive away across the causeway. For travel and hotel checks, that means comparing a Bahraini point of sale with a Saudi one, and weekend dates with weekday dates, before drawing conclusions about price levels. --- ## Bangladesh residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bangladesh-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 64 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 9 (Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Barishal, Gazipur). Networks seen: 59 (Antaranga Dot Com, Orange Communication, AmberIT). Median response time: 960 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BD · Review by: 2026-11-30. Phones are where most Bangladeshi shopping happens, in Bangla or English, with prices in taka (BDT). Cash on delivery remains common for marketplace orders, and the mobile financial services bKash, Nagad and Rocket are the usual digital alternative, so checkout pages list these wallets prominently next to cards. A great deal of small retail also runs through Facebook pages, with orders taken over Messenger rather than on a website. The weeks before Eid are the busiest shopping season, and marketplace campaigns and delivery cut-offs are planned around them. Daraz, owned by Alibaba, is the largest general marketplace, Chaldal is the best-known online grocer in Dhaka, Rokomari grew from books into a wider online store, and Bikroy is the main classifieds site for phones, vehicles and property. Foodpanda and Pathao compete in food delivery, Pathao also runs ride-hailing and parcel services, and Shohoz sells bus and launch tickets, while ShareTrip and GoZayaan sell flights and hotels. Dhaka gets the widest delivery coverage, and the same listing can show longer delivery estimates and higher shipping fees in Sylhet, Rajshahi or smaller towns. Prothom Alo, The Daily Star and bdnews24.com are the large news publishers for display-ad checks. Google dominates search, and keyword sets need Bangla script, English and romanised Bangla, since shoppers mix all three. Personal data is covered by the Personal Data Protection Ordinance, 2025, gazetted on 6 November 2025 with key duties phased in over 18 months; teams handling anything beyond public listings should read it before collecting. Travel demand in Bangladesh swings hardest around the two Eids, when a large share of Dhaka's residents head to their home districts. Bus, launch and train tickets sell out days ahead, and airfares to Chattogram, Sylhet, Jashore, Saidpur and Cox's Bazar rise on US-Bangla Airlines, Biman Bangladesh Airlines and NOVOAIR. Two infrastructure changes reshaped routes: the Padma Bridge, opened in 2022, moved much southwest travel from ferries to roads, and since December 2023 the Cox's Bazar Express has run by rail from Dhaka to the beach town. Cox's Bazar hotels peak in the dry winter months, so fare and rate checks need fixed travel dates. --- ## Barbados residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/barbados-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 36 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Bridgetown). Networks seen: 2 (Digicel Barbados, Columbus Telecommunications (Barbados)). Median response time: 480 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BB · Review by: 2026-11-30. Prices on Barbadian sites are in Barbados dollars (BBD), held at two to one against the US dollar, while hotels, villas and tour operators often quote US dollars for their mostly British and North American guests. English is the language of every local storefront and news site. The domestic retail sector is small and many residents order from US websites through freight forwarders, so local monitoring centers on a short list of retailers, publishers and travel businesses rather than on large marketplaces. For household prices, teams check Massy Stores and PriceSmart for groceries and bulk goods, and Cave Shepherd and Courts for department-store and appliance prices. Terra Caribbean and Altman Real Estate are two of the island's main estate agencies, with listings for sale and rent that are often priced in US dollars for overseas buyers. Barbados Today and Nation News are the main online publishers for ad checks. Travel pricing follows the island's calendar: rates at west-coast resorts in St James, south-coast hotels and private villas shift between the winter high season, the Crop Over festival that ends with Grand Kadooment in early August, and the quieter autumn months. Google is the search engine almost everyone uses, and results for Barbados hotel and restaurant queries mix local businesses with UK and US travel sites, which is why ranking checks for island businesses are best run from a Barbadian connection. Mobile data comes from Digicel and FLOW. Personal data falls under the Data Protection Act, 2019, which came into force in March 2021. Barbados travel pricing tracks three source markets, each with its own airlines. From the UK, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic fly from London Heathrow, with TUI adding seasonal flights to Gatwick and other British airports. Canadians arrive on Air Canada and WestJet from Toronto, and US visitors on JetBlue from New York JFK and Boston, American from Miami, Charlotte and Philadelphia, and United from Newark. Within the region, interCaribbean uses Grantley Adams International as a hub, and Caribbean Airlines and LIAT 2020 serve neighboring islands. Package holidays bundle these flights with hotels, so the same February week can be priced differently by UK, Canadian and US tour operators, and checks should be run for each market. --- ## Belarus residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/belarus-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 53 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 7 (Minsk, Brest, Vitebsk, Homyel, Mogilev). Networks seen: 6 (Republican Unitary Telecommunication Enterprise Beltelecom, Unitary enterprise A1, Mobile TeleSystems JLLC). Median response time: 440 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online shopping in Belarus runs mostly in Russian, with Belarusian used by some publishers and state sites, and prices are in Belarusian rubles (BYN). Checkout looks different from EU stores: many shops send customers to ERIP, the national settlement system that lets people pay an order from any Belarusian bank app, terminal or cash desk. Belkart cards and ERIP are not accepted by most international sites, so price monitoring centres on domestic stores and the local arms of Russian marketplaces. Orders often go to marketplace pickup points or to Belpochta and Evropochta branches rather than the door. Wildberries and Ozon both run Belarusian operations and are registered as dominant online platforms. Kufar is the main classifieds site for used goods, cars and property ads, and Onliner combines a price comparison catalogue with one of the country's most visited news sites. 21vek.by is a leading local online hypermarket, and Realt.by lists flats and houses for sale and rent. Google leads search, but Yandex keeps a large second share through yandex.by, so ranking checks need both engines, and Yandex's ad network matters more here than in the EU. Google stopped new sign-ups and paused monetization for Belarus-based AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager accounts in December 2024, so ads on Belarusian publishers come from other networks or direct deals. Personal data falls under Law No. 99-Z of 7 May 2021 on Personal Data Protection, in force since 15 November 2021. Cross-border buying in Belarus follows the Eurasian Economic Union, the customs union Belarus shares with Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Parcels from sellers in Russia cross no customs border, while orders from shops in the EU or China are imports and can attract duty above the personal allowance. Currency habits also differ by category: Realt.by lets visitors switch flat prices between Belarusian rubles, US dollars, euros and Russian rubles, and publishes its market statistics as US dollar equivalents at the National Bank rate. Teams comparing property prices over time should note which currency each figure started in before converting. --- ## Belgium residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/belgium-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 31 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 15 (Brussels, Liège, Brecht, Antwerp, Harelbeke). Networks seen: 7 (Proximus, Orange Belgium, Telenet). Median response time: 310 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Language decides most of what a Belgian shopper sees online: Flanders browses in Dutch, Wallonia in French, Brussels in both, and the east cantons around Eupen in German. Most national retailers run separate nl-BE and fr-BE versions of the same store in euros (EUR), each with its own URLs, promotions and sometimes its own assortment, so one check per country misses half the market. Bancontact, the domestic card scheme and payment app, is the option most Belgian checkouts show first. Winter and summer sales run in periods set by law, starting in early January and early July, so discount tracking follows that calendar. Amazon opened amazon.com.be in 2022, but it competes with bol.com and Coolblue, both founded in the Netherlands, and with national electronics chains Vanden Borre and Krëfel. Immoweb and Zimmo list property, 2dehands.be and its French twin 2ememain.be carry classifieds, and Takeaway.com and Uber Eats handle restaurant delivery. HLN, Het Nieuwsblad, Le Soir and RTBF are the main news brands on each side of the language border. Google dominates search, and google.be returns different results for the same product in Dutch and French, with ads that follow the searcher's language. Dutch queries can also surface stores from the Netherlands and French queries stores from France, which can push Belgian sites down. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. Belgian travel pricing splits across two airports and several rail sellers. Brussels Airport at Zaventem is the hub for Brussels Airlines, while Brussels South Charleroi is a major Ryanair base, so the same city pair can show very different fares depending on the departure airport. Domestic trains run under the bilingual name SNCB/NMBS, with French and Dutch versions of its booking site, and high-speed services to Paris, London, Amsterdam and Cologne are sold by Eurostar, which absorbed the Thalys brand in 2023, and by Deutsche Bahn. Fare checks for Belgian travellers should compare both airports and both rail sellers, in both languages. --- ## Belize residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/belize-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 11 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Belize City, Belmopan). Networks seen: 2 (Belize Telemedia, CORAL CABLE VISION). Median response time: 480 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. English is Belize's official language, but Spanish is spoken widely and Belizean Kriol is common in everyday conversation, so storefronts and ads are mostly in English while searches arrive in both English and Spanish. Prices are in Belize dollars (BZD), fixed at two to one against the US dollar, and hotels, tour operators and property sellers aimed at visitors usually quote US dollars. Next to cash and cards, DigiWallet, run by Belize Telemedia, lets shoppers pay merchants by scanning a QR code and settle Digi, BEL and BWS bills. The local online market is small, so teams usually focus on publishers, travel and a few retailers. Amandala, Channel 5 Belize, 7 News Belize, Breaking Belize News and, for Ambergris Caye, The San Pedro Sun are the main news sites for ad checks. Travel pricing covers resorts and guesthouses on Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker and in Placencia, plus domestic flights on Tropic Air and Maya Island Air. Courts, which sells appliances and furniture on credit in towns across the country, is a useful retail price reference, and mobile service comes from Digi and SMART. Google is the main search engine. Belize shares borders with Mexico and Guatemala, so Spanish-language searches can surface businesses from those countries; ranking checks for Belizean hotels, tours and shops should be run from a Belizean connection in both languages. Belize enacted the Data Protection Act, 2021 (Act No. 45 of 2021), with its provisions brought into force by ministerial order, so teams gathering personal information should confirm which parts currently apply. Travel pricing in Belize starts at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport in Ladyville, outside Belize City, where American, Alaska, Delta, Southwest and United fly from US hubs, Air Canada Rouge and WestJet add seasonal Canadian flights, Copa connects to Panama City, and regional routes reach Guatemala City and Cancún. From there, visitors split between the cayes and the mainland. Inland, the Cayo District around San Ignacio sells jungle lodges and trips to Maya sites such as Xunantunich and Caracol, while Stann Creek District offers Hopkins and Dangriga, which Tropic Air and Maya Island Air also serve. Rate checks should cover each district, since mainland lodges and island resorts are priced as separate markets. --- ## Benin residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/benin-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 18 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Cotonou, Ouidah, Porto-Novo). Networks seen: 5 (SOCIETE BENINOISE D'INFRASTRUCTURES NUMERIQUES, ISOCEL, SPACETEL BENIN). Median response time: 880 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BJ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Beninese online shopping runs in French and is priced in the West African CFA franc (XOF), but the market is shaped by its neighbour. Cotonou lies little more than 100 km from Lagos, and much of the trade through Dantokpa, the city's vast open-air market, is tied to Nigeria, where prices are in naira and storefronts are in English. Mobile money is the default way to pay: MTN MoMo and Moov Money are the telecom wallets, and many local sites take them through payment gateways built in Benin, such as Kkiapay and FedaPay. Gozem is the app most teams track here. It began in neighbouring Togo and combines zémidjan motorbike taxis, cars, food and grocery delivery and its own Gozem Money wallet in one place. CoinAfrique Bénin is the main classifieds site for phones, vehicles, land and rentals in Cotonou, Abomey-Calavi and Porto-Novo. For publisher monitoring, the state daily La Nation, the investigative site Banouto and 24 Heures au Bénin carry local display and sponsored content. Jumia and Jiji, both large in Nigeria, do not run Beninese editions, so online listings on each side of the border stay largely separate even though shoppers and traders cross it daily. Google is the dominant search engine, and French-language results for Beninese queries often include Togolese, Ivorian and French pages. Personal data is regulated by Law No. 2017-20 of 20 April 2018 on the Digital Code of the Republic of Benin, supervised by the Autorité de Protection des Données Personnelles (APDP). Benin's travel prices cluster around its heritage sites on the coast. Ouidah, west of Cotonou, is regarded as the spiritual capital of Vodun and hosts the main celebrations of the national Vodun festival on 10 January, when demand for rooms and transport along the coast peaks with pilgrims and visitors. The town's Route des Esclaves ends at the Door of No Return memorial, a year-round draw for diaspora travellers. Ganvié, the stilt village on Lake Nokoué north of Cotonou, is the other standard excursion sold by local tour operators. Teams comparing hotel rates, tour prices or event advertising should treat early January as its own peak rather than averaging it into the year. --- ## Bermuda residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bermuda-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 6 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Hamilton). Networks seen: 1 (Transact). Median response time: 490 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Bermuda prices in Bermuda dollars (BMD), which are pegged at par to the US dollar and circulate alongside it, and much of what islanders buy online comes from the United States. Imports pay customs duty on arrival, so shoppers usually have US orders sent to a mainland address run by a local freight or mail-forwarding company, then pay duty and handling before collecting them on the island. When comparing prices at local stores such as Lindo's or The MarketPlace with US listings, landed cost is the figure that matters, not the US sticker price. Local classifieds run through eMoo, which lists cars, boats, rentals, jobs and goods, and news and display advertising through The Royal Gazette and Bernews. Property listings quote an annual rental value (ARV), which sets land tax and limits which homes non-Bermudians may buy, so it is worth capturing next to the asking price. Hotel and rental rates move with the summer season and with cruise ship calls at the Royal Naval Dockyard, and the island's insurance and reinsurance sector forms a business audience of its own for B2B campaigns. Google is the main search engine, and local results for Hamilton and St. George's only appear as residents see them when the search runs from the island. The Personal Information Protection Act 2016 (PIPA) has been fully in force since 1 January 2025 and is overseen by the Privacy Commissioner for Bermuda. Bermuda's transport rules shape both classifieds and travel prices. Only residents may drive cars, households are limited to one car and vehicle size is restricted for the island's narrow roads, so car listings on eMoo lean toward small models and light trucks that fit the rules. Visitors cannot rent standard cars; they choose between small two-seat electric cars from firms such as Current, low-power scooters, taxis, and the pink-and-blue buses and SeaExpress ferries, which share multiday passes. Travel price checks for Bermuda should therefore add local transport, not a rental car, to the cost of a stay. --- ## Bolivia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bolivia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 59 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra). Networks seen: 10 (Telefonica Celular de Bolivia, EMPRESA NACIONAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES SOCIEDAD ANONIMA, Comteco). Median response time: 1140 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Bolivian shoppers see Spanish-language storefronts priced in bolivianos (BOB), with property as the main exception: apartment listings in Santa Cruz on InfoCasas, for example, are quoted in US dollars. Paying by QR code has become routine, down to market stalls, and wallets such as Tigo Money sit next to bank transfers and cards, so many local checkout pages offer a QR option. The market is split between three cities with different retail landscapes. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in the eastern lowlands, is the commercial center; La Paz and neighboring El Alto sit on the Altiplano; and Cochabamba lies between them. Supermarket chains are regional, with Hipermaxi and Fidalga rooted in Santa Cruz and Ketal in La Paz, so grocery price checks need to cover each city separately. Mercado Libre runs a Bolivian site, PedidosYa lists restaurant and grocery delivery in the main cities, and InfoCasas covers property from Equipetrol in Santa Cruz to Achumani in La Paz. News and ad inventory follow the same regional pattern: El Deber in Santa Cruz, Los Tiempos and Opinión in Cochabamba, and La Razón in La Paz, alongside the national TV networks Unitel and Red Uno. Google is the dominant search engine. Bolivia still has no general personal data protection law. Air travel inside Bolivia centers on Boliviana de Aviación (BoA), the state-owned flag carrier, which became the main domestic airline after AeroSur's bankruptcy and runs its hub in Cochabamba, with EcoJet as the main scheduled alternative. International travelers usually land at Viru Viru in Santa Cruz or at El Alto above La Paz. Tourism centers on the Salar de Uyuni, Lake Titicaca around Copacabana and the Carnaval de Oruro, whose parade before Lent fills hotels in Oruro and lifts room rates for the festival days. Overland buses from the main terminals in La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz are the budget option, so travel checks should compare bus fares alongside BoA and EcoJet flights. --- ## Bosnia and Herzegovina residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bosnia-herzegovina-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 57 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 27 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 12 (Sarajevo, Tuzla, Kostajnica, Zvornik, Bijeljina). Networks seen: 6 (BH Telecom d.d. Sarajevo, Telekomunikacije Republike Srpske akcionarsko drustvo Banja Luka, Telemach BH Sarajevo). Median response time: 390 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Shoppers in Bosnia and Herzegovina read three closely related languages, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, written in both Latin and Cyrillic script, and pay in convertible marks (BAM), a currency pegged to the euro that local sites write as KM, which matters when parsing prices. The split into the Federation, Republika Srpska and Brčko District shows up online: Republika Srpska institutions and several Banja Luka outlets publish in Cyrillic, while most Sarajevo commerce runs in Latin script. Cash on delivery remains a common way to pay for online orders, and many classified listings leave the price open to negotiation. OLX.ba, the former Pik.ba, dominates classifieds for cars, property and used goods and doubles as a general marketplace where many small shops sell. eKupi.ba sells electronics and household goods online. Food delivery changed in August 2026 when Glovo withdrew from the country, leaving Korpa and local services to serve Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar and Tuzla. Klix.ba and Avaz.ba are major news portals in Sarajevo, and Nezavisne novine publishes from Banja Luka. Google dominates search, and results for the same topic can differ by script and language variant, so a Cyrillic query from Banja Luka and a Latin one from Sarajevo may surface different sites. Personal data falls under the Law on Personal Data Protection, published in the Official Gazette of BiH No. 12/25, which follows the GDPR and has applied since 4 October 2025. Parcel delivery in Bosnia and Herzegovina reflects the country's post-war administrative map. Three public postal operators share the territory: BH Pošta in the Bosniak-majority parts of the Federation, Pošte Srpske in Republika Srpska, and HP Mostar (Hrvatska pošta Mostar) in the Croat-majority areas, each running its own network. Online shops quote delivery through one of these or through private couriers, and delivery terms can differ by region. Because the country is outside the EU customs area, orders from shops in Croatia, Slovenia or Germany are imports and can attract customs duty and VAT, which changes the real price of a cross-border basket compared with a domestic one. --- ## Botswana residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/botswana-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 12 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Gaborone, Maitengwe). Networks seen: 5 (Orange Botswana (PTY), Botswana Telecommunications, STATURE (PTY)). Median response time: 760 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BW · Review by: 2026-11-30. English is the working language of Botswana's online shops and search, while Setswana, the national language, is common in social posts. Prices are in pula (BWP). Retail is closely tied to South Africa: many of the same chains and brands trade on both sides of the border, so a like-for-like price check often sets pula shelf prices against rand prices in South African stores. Mobile wallets are widely used for everyday payments, led by Orange Money, Mascom's MyZaka and BTC's Smega, alongside bank cards. Choppies, the Gaborone-based grocery chain, posts its store specials online and runs the eChoppies shopping portal in selected areas, which makes it a practical source for grocery price tracking. Mmegi and the Sunday Standard are the main independent news publishers, and Mmegi's classified section carries property and vehicle notices. Air Botswana fares and lodge rates in the Okavango Delta and Chobe are the other price set teams follow; most safari camps quote in US dollars rather than pula, so travel comparisons carry two currencies. Google is the search engine that matters. English queries from Botswana return .co.bw and .bw sites mixed with South African pages, and the balance shifts with location, so rankings should be checked from Botswana connections rather than inferred from South African data. The Data Protection Act, 2024 (Act No. 18 of 2024) replaced the 2018 act and took effect in January 2025, with the Information and Data Protection Commission as regulator. Botswana's tourism runs through two northern gateways rather than the capital. Maun is the country's tourism centre and the base for the air-charter companies that fly light aircraft into Okavango Delta camps, so a Delta trip is usually priced as lodge nights plus a charter seat from Maun. Kasane, beside Chobe National Park, sits near the Kazungula Bridge, which opened in May 2021 with one-stop border posts between Botswana and Zambia, and many Chobe itineraries now include a Zambian leg. Teams comparing safari prices should check Maun and Kasane packages separately, because the operators, transfer costs and bundled activities differ between the two. --- ## Brazil proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/brazil-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 65 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 57 (São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Catanduva, Contagem, Fortaleza). Networks seen: 57 (Claro NXT Telecomunicacoes, TELEFONICA BRASIL, V tal). Median response time: 730 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 3.0M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Brazilian e-commerce runs in Portuguese and Brazilian reais (BRL), and its checkout pages look different from the rest of Latin America. Pix, the instant payment system the Banco Central do Brasil launched in 2020, sits next to boleto bancário and card payments split into parcelas sem juros (interest-free installments), and many stores show a lower price for paying by Pix. Freight and delivery dates are calculated from the shopper's CEP (postal code), so the same listing can show different shipping costs and arrival dates in São Paulo and in Manaus. Mercado Livre, Amazon.com.br, Magazine Luiza (Magalu), Casas Bahia, Americanas and Shopee are the marketplaces price teams usually watch, with Buscapé and Zoom comparing offers across them and OLX leading used-goods classifieds. iFood leads restaurant delivery, while Zap Imóveis, Viva Real and QuintoAndar are the main property portals. Reclame Aqui, where consumers post complaints and companies answer in public, is a standard stop for brand monitoring. Black Friday is the biggest retail event, and many Brazilian stores stretch it across the whole of November. Google is the default search engine, and google.com.br results for Brazilian Portuguese queries differ from those served in Portugal, with different spelling, retailers and local businesses. UOL, g1 and Folha de S.Paulo are the large national news sites for display ad checks. Personal data is governed by the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD), Law No. 13,709 of 2018, enforced by the national data protection authority (ANPD); teams handling personal information should review how it applies to their project. Brazil's retail calendar has more peaks than Black Friday. Semana do Consumidor builds around Dia do Consumidor on 15 March, Dia das Mães on the second Sunday of May is one of the strongest dates for fashion, beauty and electronics, and Dia dos Namorados on 12 June is Brazil's Valentine's Day, not February. Dia dos Pais falls on the second Sunday of August, Dia das Crianças on 12 October drives toy sales, and AliExpress and Shopee push 11.11 promotions in November before Black Friday and Natal. Price tracking in Brazil needs a baseline taken a few weeks before each of these dates, so that promotional prices can be compared with the list prices shown beforehand. --- ## Brunei residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/brunei-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 4 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Bandar Seri Begawan). Networks seen: 1 (Unified National Networks). Median response time: 790 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BN · Review by: 2026-11-30. With fewer than half a million residents, Brunei has a small online market that leans on its neighbours. Shoppers use Malay and English, and prices are in Brunei dollars (BND), which are interchangeable at par with the Singapore dollar, so Singaporean prices read directly. Shopee and Lazada run no Brunei storefronts, so a lot of buying happens on Malaysian and Singaporean sites, while local sellers take orders through Instagram and WhatsApp. Shopping trips to Miri and Limbang in neighbouring Sarawak are common too, which keeps Malaysian prices a constant point of comparison. Home-grown apps cover daily services: GoMamam delivers food, Dart is the local ride-hailing app, and the DST app lets customers pay bills, buy goods and order food. DST and Progresif are the two mobile operators, and most browsing happens on phones. Most payments go through cards and apps from local banks such as BIBD and Baiduri. Borneo Bulletin, The Scoop, Pelita Brunei and RTB carry most local news, which makes them the obvious places to check how campaigns appear to Bruneian readers. Google is the default search engine. Malay-language queries compete with the much larger Malaysian web, so it is worth checking whether Brunei businesses surface at all for them, and English queries face the same pressure from Singaporean sites. The Personal Data Protection Order, 2025, enacted in January 2025 with most provisions in force from 1 January 2026, now governs personal data. Religious rules change what Bruneian catalogues and delivery apps show. The sale of alcohol has been banned in Brunei since 1991, so it is absent from local shops and apps. Food sellers display halal certification, and businesses close for Friday prayers around midday, so restaurant listings and deliveries pause for part of Friday. During Ramadan, daytime dining gives way to takeaway, and restaurant hours shift toward the evening meal that breaks the fast. Geography adds one more split: Temburong district, separated from the rest of the country by Malaysian territory, has had a direct road link to Bandar Seri Begawan since the Temburong Bridge opened in 2020. --- ## Bulgaria residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/bulgaria-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 42 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 19 (Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Pazardzhik, Samuil). Networks seen: 27 (A1 Bulgaria EAD, Vivacom Bulgaria EAD, CETIN Bulgaria EAD). Median response time: 380 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Since 1 January 2026, Bulgarian storefronts have priced in euros (EUR) instead of lev, and they are written in Cyrillic. Shops had to show both currencies from August 2025 until 8 August 2026, so price histories collected across that period mix lev and euro figures. Cash on delivery is still a normal way to pay, and delivery to an Econt or Speedy courier office is offered at most checkouts alongside home delivery. eMAG.bg is the biggest general online store, with Ozone.bg and Technopolis strong in electronics, games and books, while OLX.bg and Bazar.bg lead general classifieds. Mobile.bg is the main site for used cars and imot.bg for property. Restaurant delivery is split between Glovo, Wolt, Takeaway.com and Bolt Food, each with its own restaurant list and fees in the largest cities. Dnevnik, 24 Chasa and Dir.bg are major news sites, and abv.bg, a widely used local email portal, carries its own display advertising. Hotel rates in Black Sea resorts such as Sunny Beach and Golden Sands, and in the Bansko ski area, swing sharply between seasons. Google dominates search, and product queries in Cyrillic pull in eMAG.bg, Ozone.bg and smaller local shops competing for the same keywords. Some users still type Bulgarian in Latin letters, so keyword checks should include transliterated forms as well. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Personal Data Protection Act of 2002, amended in 2019 to implement it. Bulgaria's retail calendar has several local peaks. On 1 March, Baba Marta Day, people exchange red-and-white martenitsi, and 8 March, International Women's Day, is still a big day for flowers and gifts, so florists and gift shops promote heavily in the first week of March. Easter follows the Orthodox calendar and often falls on a different Sunday from Western Easter, moving food and gift promotions with it. The school year opens on 15 September, which drives back-to-school offers through late August and early September, and Black Friday in November has become a major online sales week, led by eMAG. --- ## Burkina Faso residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/burkina-faso-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 60 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 42 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Ouagadougou). Networks seen: 4 (Orange Burkina Faso, ONATEL (Office National des Telecommunications, GVA Cote d'Ivoire). Median response time: 890 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-BF · Review by: 2026-11-30. Burkinabe shoppers mostly buy on their phones, and French is the language of storefronts, classifieds and search, even though Mooré and Dioula are what most people speak day to day. Prices are in the West African CFA franc (XOF), the same currency as Côte d'Ivoire and Mali, which makes price comparison with Abidjan and Bamako direct. Few people pay by card, so checkouts depend on mobile money: Orange Money and Moov Money are the telecom wallets, and Wave, present since 2021, keeps opening agencies outside the capital, most recently in Dédougou. Online activity is concentrated in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso. CoinAfrique is the main classifieds site, with listings for phones, cars, villas in Ouaga 2000 and building plots, and it is the most practical place to follow second-hand and property asking prices. Payment aggregators such as CinetPay let local merchants accept Orange Money, Moov Money and cards through one checkout. For publisher monitoring, Lefaso.net is the national news portal, with regional editions for the provinces and a busy job-offer section, alongside Burkina24 and the state daily Sidwaya. Jumia, Glovo and Yango do not operate in Burkina Faso, so there is no dominant marketplace or delivery app to benchmark against; classifieds, publishers and mobile money checkouts are where most monitoring happens. Google is the search engine that matters, and French queries return Burkinabe sites mixed with French and Ivorian pages. Personal data is governed by Law No. 001-2021/AN of 30 March 2021 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, supervised by the Commission de l'informatique et des libertés (CIL). Two recurring events in Ouagadougou change hotel demand and advertising. FESPACO, the Pan-African film festival, is held in the capital every two years in late February or March, with its opening ceremony at the national stadium, and it doubles as a market where filmmakers, distributors and press from across the continent meet. The SIAO international crafts fair, also held every two years in Ouagadougou, brings artisans and traders from dozens of countries to its exhibition grounds. During these weeks demand for rooms and flights into Ouagadougou rises and local publishers carry festival sponsorship, so fare checks and ad verification around those dates show a different picture from the rest of the year. --- ## Cambodia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/cambodia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 45 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Phnom Penh). Networks seen: 9 (ISP/IXP IN CAMBODIA WITH THE BEST VERVICE IN THERE, ANGKOR DATA COMMUNICATION, EZECOM). Median response time: 1440 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KH · Review by: 2026-11-30. Cambodia runs on two currencies: prices appear in US dollars (USD) and riel (KHR), often side by side, and change is commonly given in a mix of both. Storefronts and ads mix Khmer and English, and most people go online through smartphones on the Smart, Cellcard and Metfone networks. Much small retail happens on Facebook pages and Telegram channels rather than websites, and payment is usually a KHQR code scanned from a bank app such as ABA Mobile, a Wing transfer, or cash on delivery. Khmer24 is the main classifieds site for phones, vehicles, jobs and property, and Realestate.com.kh lists homes and rentals in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Grab and the local PassApp compete in ride-hailing, and foodpanda handles much of the restaurant delivery. Shopee and Lazada run no Cambodian storefronts, which leaves social sellers and a handful of local sites to fill the gap. Khmer Times, Fresh News and Cambodianess are useful publishers for checking local display ads. Google is the main search engine, and keyword sets need both Khmer script and English, since many shoppers search in English for products and brands. Telegram is also a major channel for news and business announcements, so social checks should include it alongside Facebook and TikTok. Cambodia has no general data-protection law yet; a draft Law on Personal Data Protection published in July 2025 was still under review in 2026, so teams collecting anything beyond public listings should watch for its adoption. Two new airports have changed how Cambodian travel is priced. Techo International Airport replaced Phnom Penh's old airport for commercial flights in September 2025, and Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport, opened in 2023, now serves visitors to the Angkor temples. Cambodia Angkor Air flies domestic and regional routes, while buses run by Giant Ibis and Mekong Express link Phnom Penh with Siem Reap, Sihanoukville and Kampot. Boats from Sihanoukville serve the islands of Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloem. Hotel and tour prices in Siem Reap peak in the cool, dry months from November to March, so fare and rate checks need fixed travel dates. --- ## Cameroon residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/cameroon-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 46 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 26 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Yaoundé, Douala). Networks seen: 5 (Starlink, Orange Cameroun, MTN Network Solutions (Cameroon)). Median response time: 1470 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Officially bilingual, Cameroon shows it online: most storefronts and searches are in French, but the Northwest and Southwest regions, around Bamenda and Buea, use English, so a site localised only in French misses part of the country. Prices are in the Central African CFA franc (XAF). Douala, the commercial port, and Yaoundé, the capital, are where delivery apps and online stores concentrate. MTN MoMo and Orange Money are the wallets checkout pages are built around, and Wave has entered as a third option. Glotelho is a Cameroonian online store selling phones, appliances and fashion, with payment by Mobile Money, Orange Money or cash on delivery and showrooms for collection. CoinAfrique runs a Cameroonian classifieds edition for vehicles, phones and property. Gozem and Yango compete in rides and delivery. Jumia left Cameroon in 2019, so there is no pan-African marketplace to benchmark against. For publisher monitoring, Cameroon Tribune is the state daily printed in French and English, Actu Cameroun and Investir au Cameroun cover news and business, and The Guardian Post serves English-language readers. Google is the dominant search engine, and French and English queries for the same product often return different local sites, so keyword sets need both languages. Personal data is now governed by Law No. 2024/017 of 23 December 2024 on the protection of personal data, which creates a dedicated data protection authority and whose compliance period ended in June 2026. Douala, the largest city and economic capital, handles most of Cameroon's exports and serves as a gateway for the wider CEMAC region, including landlocked Chad and the Central African Republic, while the newer deep-water port at Kribi is taking over part of that traffic. Goods landed on the coast travel north to Ngaoundéré, Garoua and Maroua, where the Sahel climate, Fulfulde as a common language and long transport distances make the north a separate market. Camair-Co, the national airline, lists Douala, Yaoundé, Garoua, Maroua, Ngaoundéré and Bafoussam as domestic points but runs a small fleet, so confirm a route is actually operating before comparing domestic fares. --- ## Canada residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/canada-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 62 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 35 (Montreal, Toronto, London, Dartmouth, Dorval). Networks seen: 21 (Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Canada, Videotron Ltee). Median response time: 450 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 3.0M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Canadian storefronts price in CAD and split along two lines: province and language. Sales tax is added at checkout as GST, HST, PST or QST depending on the delivery province, so the same Amazon.ca cart totals differently in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal. In Quebec, the Charter of the French language, tightened by Bill 96 in 2022, requires French on commercial websites, and many national retailers serve French pages and separate promotions to Quebec shoppers. Payment is mostly by card and Interac debit, and Interac e-Transfer is the usual way to settle private sales. Teams tracking the market usually watch Amazon.ca, Walmart.ca, Canadian Tire and Best Buy Canada for price and stock, Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace for classifieds, Realtor.ca and Quebec's Centris.ca for property listings, and SkipTheDishes, Uber Eats and DoorDash for restaurant delivery. Much alcohol retail runs through provincial boards such as the LCBO in Ontario and the SAQ in Quebec, each with its own online store and prices. Google leads search, with Bing a distant second, and French queries in Quebec return a different set of publishers such as La Presse and Radio-Canada. Social feeds differ too: since 2023 Meta has blocked news links on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada in response to the Online News Act, so the same page shows a different feed from Canadian and US connections. Private-sector personal data falls under PIPEDA (2000), with Quebec's Law 25 of 2021 and the private-sector acts of Alberta and British Columbia adding their own rules. Canada's sales calendar is not a copy of the US one. Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October, so no holiday weekend feeds into Black Friday, yet Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now major events for Amazon.ca and national chains, followed by Boxing Day on 26 December, which remains its own peak for electronics and clothing. In Quebec, 1 July is both Canada Day and Moving Day, when most leases turn over, so rental listings on Kijiji and Centris surge and moving companies charge far more than usual around that date. Back-to-school promotions run through August, before most provinces return to class around Labour Day. --- ## Cape Verde residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/cape-verde-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 9 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Praia). Networks seen: 2 (CABO VERDE TELECOM, Starlink). Median response time: 470 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CV · Review by: 2026-11-30. Ten islands, nine of them inhabited, split Cape Verde's small online market, and that geography is what makes it distinct. Storefronts, news and search are in Portuguese, while Kriolu is the everyday spoken language. The escudo (CVE) is pegged to the euro, and hotels and tour operators on Sal and Boa Vista often quote euro prices directly, so rate comparisons usually carry two currencies. Card payments run through SISP, the national payments company, whose vinti4 service handles web and bill payments. Demand divides between the tourist islands and the population centres. Sal and Boa Vista hold most of the all-inclusive resorts that European package operators such as TUI sell, so hotel rates and flights to those islands are the most-watched prices. Praia on Santiago and Mindelo on São Vicente are where local shoppers and businesses are. Inter-island flights and ferries shape delivery times and prices between islands. For publisher monitoring, Expresso das Ilhas, the weekly A Nação and the state news agency Inforpress are the main local outlets. Google is the dominant search engine, and Portuguese queries from Cape Verde return local pages alongside results from Portugal and Brazil, so rank checks should run from Cape Verdean connections. The country was early to regulate personal data: Law No. 133/V/2001 of 22 January 2001 sets the general regime, amended in 2013 and again by Law No. 121/IX/2021, and the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD) enforces it. More Cape Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde itself, and that diaspora is part of the market. The largest community is in Portugal, followed by the United States, where Cape Verdeans have long been concentrated on the New England coast from Providence to New Bedford, with sizeable groups in the Netherlands and France. Families abroad pay for goods, services and travel for relatives on the islands, and Cape Verdean businesses and media address them directly. A campaign or price check can therefore have two audiences: residents browsing in Praia or Mindelo, and Cape Verdeans in Lisbon, Rotterdam or Boston who follow the same brands and publishers from abroad. --- ## Cayman Islands residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/cayman-islands-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 4 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (George Town). Networks seen: 3 (WestTel, Cable & Wireless (Cayman Islands), Digicel Cayman). Median response time: 460 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Cayman runs on two currencies at once. The Cayman Islands dollar (KYD) has been fixed at US$1.20 since 1974, and shops, restaurants and hotels accept US dollars at 80 Cayman cents each, so listings switch between CI$ and US$, sometimes on the same page. Storefronts and search are in English. There is no sales tax or VAT; the cost that changes a checkout total is import duty, which is why households ordering from US stores compare the landed price with what Foster's, Kirk Market and Hurley's charge on the island. eCaytrade is the best-known local classifieds site, with real estate, cars and boats, jobs and services, and property is also listed through the CIREBA multiple listing service. News and display advertising run through the Cayman Compass and Cayman News Service, with Radio Cayman as the public broadcaster. Travel is a large pricing category: Cayman Airways flies to Miami, Tampa, Kingston, La Ceiba and Panama City, US and Canadian airlines serve Grand Cayman from many cities, and British Airways flies from London, so Seven Mile Beach hotel and condo rates are usually compared together with fares. Most activity is on Grand Cayman, around George Town, Seven Mile Beach and West Bay; Cayman Brac and Little Cayman are linked by Cayman Airways Express and have far fewer local services. Google dominates search, and results for local services differ from those seen from Miami, the nearest large market. Personal data falls under the Data Protection Act (2021 Revision), in force since 30 September 2019 and supervised by the Office of the Ombudsman. The labour market leaves a clear online trail. Financial services, including investment funds, insurance, banking and the law and accounting firms that serve them, drive much of the skilled hiring, and many of those roles are filled on work permits. WORC, the government's Workforce Opportunities and Residency Cayman department, runs the JobsCayman portal, and its rules include a 21-day advertising requirement for vacancies. Job listings there, on eCaytrade and in the Cayman Compass therefore show which roles employers are recruiting for and the salaries they offer in CI$, which makes them a practical source for labour-market and relocation research. --- ## Chad residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/chad-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 8 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (N'Djamena). Networks seen: 2 (Starlink, MILLICOM CHAD). Median response time: 810 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TD · Review by: 2026-11-30. Two official languages, French and Arabic, shape the Chadian web: news sites and government pages often publish in both, with standard Arabic in writing and Chadian Arabic in speech, radio and social video. Prices are in Central African CFA francs (XAF), the currency shared with Cameroon and the other CEMAC countries. Most imported goods reach N'Djamena through Cameroon, along the Douala corridor and across the Chari river from the border town of Kousséri, so shipping costs on that route feed into shelf prices in the capital. N'Djamena's online sellers work without a national marketplace: they advertise on Facebook and WhatsApp and take payment in cash or through Airtel Money and Moov Money, the wallets of the two main mobile operators, Airtel and Moov Africa. That makes publishers and operators the main monitoring targets. Alwihda Info and Tchadinfos are widely read online news sites, Le Progrès is a long-running daily, and the state media office ONAMA runs Télé Tchad with news in French and Arabic. Airtel and Moov Africa publish bundle prices and wallet fees that change with promotions. Language decides what Chadians see in search. On Google, the dominant engine, French queries about Chad often return Cameroonian or French pages, while Arabic queries compete with sites from across the Arabic-speaking world. Personal data falls under Law No. 007/PR/2015 of 10 February 2015 on the protection of personal data, with implementing Decree No. 075/PR/2019 and supervision by ANSICE. Outside N'Djamena, Chad's markets follow different languages and economies. Moundou, the second-largest city and capital of Logone Occidental, is the main city of the Ngambay-speaking south, with an industrial base around Brasseries du Logone, maker of the Gala beer brand, and cotton ginning and processing by CotonTchad. Abéché, capital of the Ouaddaï region in the east, is largely Arabic-speaking and lies on the road towards Adré on the Sudanese border, where aid agencies run large operations for refugees from Sudan, so humanitarian procurement and notices shape local demand. Online listings and news from both cities are sparse, so regional checks need town names, not just the country. --- ## Chile residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/chile-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 61 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 61 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 24 (Santiago, Concepción, Talca, Valparaíso, Renca). Networks seen: 16 (Pacifico Cable, VTR BANDA ANCHA, TELEFONICA CHILE). Median response time: 990 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CL · Review by: 2026-11-30. Chilean checkouts have their own habits. Many ask for the buyer's RUT, the national tax ID; cards go through Transbank's Webpay or wallets such as Mercado Pago and MACH; and department stores show a separate, lower price for their own credit cards, such as Falabella's CMR, next to cuotas sin interés offers. Everyday prices are in Chilean pesos (CLP), while property and some rents are quoted in UF (Unidad de Fomento), an inflation-indexed unit whose peso value changes every day. The sites price teams watch are Mercado Libre Chile, Falabella.com, Paris.cl and Ripley.cl for general merchandise and Lider for groceries. Chile also has its own price-tracking sites: SoloTodo compares hardware prices across stores, and Knasta keeps price histories that show whether a sale price is real. Portal Inmobiliario and Toctoc carry property listings, while PedidosYa, Rappi and Uber Eats compete in delivery. Online sales peak during CyberDay, organized by the Cámara de Comercio de Santiago, and again around Black Friday. Google is the dominant search engine, and Emol (El Mercurio), La Tercera, BioBioChile and 24 Horas are the main news sites for ad checks. The country's length affects delivery: shipping times and costs quoted for Santiago addresses differ from those for Arica in the far north or Punta Arenas in Magallanes. Personal data is covered by Law 19.628 on the Protection of Private Life (1999). Law 21.719, published in December 2024, amends it and creates a Personal Data Protection Agency, with the new rules taking effect on 1 December 2026; teams handling personal information should plan for both. Chilean airfares and bus prices respond to geography and season. LATAM, which is based in Santiago, competes on domestic routes with the Chilean low-cost carriers Sky Airline and JetSMART, and flights to Punta Arenas, Puerto Montt, Calama and Iquique replace road journeys that take many hours or days. Long-distance buses run by Turbus and Pullman Bus remain the cheaper option on shorter routes. Patagonia, including Torres del Paine, fills up in the southern summer from December to February, the Andes ski resorts near Santiago such as Valle Nevado and Portillo peak from June to September, and the Fiestas Patrias holidays around 18 September set off a nationwide travel rush. --- ## China residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/china-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 61 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 50 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 14 (Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huizhou). Networks seen: 10 (Chinanet, China Telecom (Group), China Mobile Communications Group). Median response time: 1790 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CN · Review by: 2026-11-30. Mainland storefronts price in yuan (CNY) and write in Simplified Chinese, while Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use Traditional characters and their own currencies and have separate guides. Shopping here is app-first: buyers pay by scanning QR codes with Alipay or WeChat Pay, often spread larger purchases over instalments with Ant Group's Huabei or JD's Baitiao, and some coupons and livestream prices exist only inside the apps. Google search and many other foreign services are not reachable from mainland networks, so local visitors see a domestic set of platforms that pages loaded from abroad rarely match. Taobao and Tmall, both owned by Alibaba, compete with JD.com, which runs much of its own logistics, and with Pinduoduo, which grew through group deals shared on WeChat and through shoppers in smaller cities and rural areas. Douyin sells through livestreams and short videos, and Xiaohongshu has become a place where people search for product notes and reviews before buying elsewhere. Meituan, merged with the review site Dianping since 2015, fights over restaurant and grocery orders with Taobao Shangou, the name Alibaba gave Ele.me in December 2025. Ctrip and Qunar from Trip.com Group, Alibaba's Fliggy and the 12306 train ticket site set travel prices, Beike and Anjuke list flats, and Xianyu carries second-hand goods. Baidu leads web search, with Bing's Chinese edition, 360 Search and Sogou behind it, and its results lean on Baidu's own properties such as Baidu Baike, Zhidao and Baijiahao articles; paid listings carry the label 广告 (advertisement). Product searches also happen inside Douyin, WeChat and Xiaohongshu rather than only on a web engine. Sites aimed at the mainland show an ICP number from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, usually in the footer. The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), adopted in August 2021 and in force since 1 November 2021, sets the rules for personal data. The sales calendar is set by the platforms themselves. JD.com built its 618 festival around its 18 June anniversary, and Alibaba turned 11 November, Singles' Day, into a shopping event in 2009; Tmall, Taobao, JD.com, Pinduoduo and Douyin now run coupons, cross-store discounts and pre-sales around both dates, so prices captured in early June or early November seldom match those of a normal week. Travel prices follow public holidays instead: hotel rates on Ctrip and Meituan, fares on Air China, China Eastern and China Southern, and train tickets on 12306 peak during the Spring Festival travel rush and the National Day Golden Week that begins on 1 October. --- ## Colombia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/colombia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 65 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 24 (Bogotá, Santa Marta, Cali, Medellín, Ibague). Networks seen: 23 (Telmex Colombia, UFINET PANAMA, COLOMBIA TELECOMUNICACIONES ESP BIC). Median response time: 790 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Colombian shoppers pay in pesos (COP) through methods that shape every checkout: PSE bank transfers run by ACH Colombia, the Nequi and Daviplata wallets, credit cards where the buyer picks the number of monthly cuotas, and cash payments at Efecty points for people without cards. Storefronts and search are in Spanish. Property listings carry a detail found only in Colombia, the estrato, a one-to-six socioeconomic rating assigned to each address, which buyers and renters filter on as closely as neighborhood. Rappi was founded in Bogotá in 2015 and leads restaurant and grocery delivery in Colombian cities. For retail prices, teams track Mercado Libre Colombia, Éxito, Falabella, Alkosto and its electronics sister Ktronix, and Homecenter for home improvement. Fincaraíz, Metrocuadrado and Ciencuadras are the main property portals, and Despegar and Avianca show domestic fares between Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Cartagena and Barranquilla. Regional chains matter as well: Olímpica supermarkets are strongest on the Caribbean coast, while Carulla, Grupo Éxito's premium chain, is concentrated in Bogotá and Medellín. Google is the main search engine, and generic Spanish queries can return pages from Mexico and Spain, so ranking checks for Colombian businesses belong on google.com.co from a Colombian connection. El Tiempo, El Espectador and Semana are the largest national publishers for ad checks. Personal data is governed by Statutory Law 1581 of 2012, enforced by the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC); work that goes beyond public prices and listings should be reviewed under it. Colombian fares move with a crowded domestic airline market. Avianca competes with LATAM, JetSMART and Wingo, the Copa-owned low-cost airline with bases in Bogotá, Barranquilla, Cali, Cartagena and San Andrés, after Viva Air stopped flying in 2023. Intercity buses from companies such as Expreso Bolivariano and Expreso Brasilia remain the cheaper option between Andean cities. Demand rises around Semana Santa, the mid-year school break and the December to January holidays, and around city events such as the Carnaval de Barranquilla before Lent and the Feria de las Flores in Medellín each August, when hotel rates in those cities go up. Travel checks should be timed with these dates in mind. --- ## Costa Rica residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/costa-rica-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 57 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 45 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 7 (San José, Heredia, Quesada, Alajuela, Cartago). Networks seen: 10 (Telecable Economico, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad y Telecom, MILLICOM CABLE COSTA RICA). Median response time: 750 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Costa Rican storefronts are in Spanish and price everyday goods in colones (CRC), but US dollars are just as familiar: cars, real estate and hotel rooms are often advertised in dollars, and some shops show both currencies. Small merchants often take payment through SINPE Móvil, the Banco Central de Costa Rica's system for transfers to a phone number, and for goods not sold locally shoppers use casillero (mailbox) services such as Aeropost to buy from US stores. Encuentra24 is the main classifieds site for property, vehicles and goods, and CRAutos is the reference for used cars. Retail monitoring usually covers Walmart for mainstream groceries, Automercado for imported and premium goods, and the discount chain Pequeño Mundo for household items, EPA for hardware, and Gollo and Tiendas Monge, which sell appliances on credit. Mercado Libre runs a Costa Rican site, and Uber Eats, Rappi and PedidosYa compete in delivery. The Greater Metropolitan Area around San José, Heredia, Alajuela and Cartago holds most of the population, while Guanacaste and the Pacific coast depend on tourism, with hotel and vacation rental prices quoted in dollars. Google is the main search engine, and La Nación, CRHoy and Teletica are the largest news sites for ad checks. Personal data falls under Law No. 8968 on the Protection of the Person regarding the Processing of Personal Data (2011), supervised by the agency PRODHAB; any project touching personal information should start with a review of it. Costa Rica has two international gateways serving different parts of the country. Juan Santamaría International, in Alajuela near San José, serves the Central Valley and is the usual entry point for the Caribbean coast and the central Pacific, while Daniel Oduber Quirós International outside Liberia serves Guanacaste's beach resorts and receives direct flights from Air Canada, American, Delta, JetBlue, United and WestJet. Sansa connects San José with beach towns such as Nosara, Quepos, Tamarindo and Tambor, a faster alternative to the shuttle vans and rental cars many visitors use. Rates peak in the dry season from December to April and ease in the rainy months the tourism industry markets as the green season. --- ## Cote d'Ivoire residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/cote-divoire-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 57 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 48 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Abidjan). Networks seen: 5 (Orange Côte d'Ivoire, GVA Cote d'Ivoire, Atlantique Telecom (Cote d'Ivoire)). Median response time: 780 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CI · Review by: 2026-11-30. Ivorian storefronts, apps and search run in French, and prices are in the West African CFA franc (XOF). Abidjan dominates online demand, and addresses, delivery zones and classified listings are organised by commune, from Plateau and Cocody to Yopougon and Abobo. Mobile money decides checkout design: Wave, which says it leads the Ivorian market and is the most downloaded app in the country after WhatsApp, competes with Orange Money, MTN MoMo and Moov Money, and merchant checkouts commonly list several wallets beside cash on delivery. Côte d'Ivoire has more pan-African platforms than its French-speaking neighbours. Jumia runs its marketplace here, Glovo delivers food and groceries in Abidjan, and Yango covers rides. CoinAfrique and Jiji both run Ivorian classifieds editions for phones, cars and housing, so asking prices for the same item can be compared across two sites. Air Côte d'Ivoire, based in Abidjan, sets the regional fares travel teams compare. Abidjan.net is the long-running news and services portal, and Fraternité Matin is the state daily; both carry display advertising aimed at Ivorian readers. Google is the dominant search engine, and French queries from Abidjan compete with French, Senegalese and Cameroonian pages, so local rank checks need Ivorian connections. Outside Abidjan, in Bouaké or the cocoa port of San-Pédro, delivery apps thin out quickly and classifieds carry most listings. Personal data is governed by Law No. 2013-450 of 19 June 2013 on the protection of personal data, enforced by the telecoms regulator ARTCI. Ivorian French has its own register, and ads and social posts use it. Nouchi, the slang born in Abidjan that has grown into a creole with its own grammar, keeps feeding new words into everyday Abidjan French, so localisation checks should confirm that copy sounds Ivorian rather than Parisian. Outside Abidjan the language map changes: Baoulé is widely spoken in the centre around Bouaké and Yamoussoukro, and Dioula is the trade language of the north around Korhogo and of markets across the country. Brands testing social content or video ads should review separate versions for Abidjan and for the centre and north, since vocabulary that works in Yopougon may fall flat in Korhogo. --- ## Croatia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/croatia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 60 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 29 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 6 (Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Čakovec, Koprivnica). Networks seen: 9 (Hrvatski Telekom d.d, A1 Hrvatska, Telemach Hrvatska). Median response time: 400 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-HR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Croatia replaced the kuna with the euro on 1 January 2023, so price histories that reach further back need converting at the fixed rate of 7.53450 kuna per euro. Storefronts are in Croatian, and many shoppers type queries without the letters č, ć, š, ž and đ, which can change what Google returns. Cards dominate online payment, electronics checkouts often offer instalments on Croatian bank cards, and cash on delivery (plaćanje pouzećem) is still widely offered by local web shops. Njuškalo is the leading classifieds site for cars, property, jobs and used goods, with Index Oglasi as its main rival and Crozilla focused on real estate. Electronics and general retail run through Links and eKupi, Nabava.net compares prices across web shops, Konzum sells groceries online, and Pevex and Emmezeta sell home goods and furniture. Glovo and Wolt compete in food delivery. Zagreb holds much of the delivery-app market, while Split, Rijeka and Osijek each show their own price levels for flats. Index.hr, 24sata and Jutarnji list are among the largest news publishers. Tourism drives much of the summer online market: holiday rental and hotel prices along the Adriatic coast rise through June, July and August, Jadrolinija ferry fares and timetables follow the same season, and accommodation sites usually publish in Croatian, English, German and Italian, so localized checks need several language versions. Google dominates search. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Act on the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (Official Gazette 42/2018). Travel pricing in Croatia involves more operators than the state ferry line. Krilo runs fast catamarans linking Split with Hvar, Korčula and Dubrovnik, and Croatia Airlines competes with low-cost carriers at Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Zadar and Pula airports. Because no railway reaches Dubrovnik or the Makarska Riviera, intercity buses sold by FlixBus, Arriva and regional operators carry much of the traffic along the coast. Accommodation checkouts often add the tourist tax (boravišna pristojba) per person per night on top of the room price, so rate comparisons should record whether it is included and how many guests the quote assumes. --- ## Curacao residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/curacao-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 8 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Willemstad). Networks seen: 3 (Curacao Telecom, United Telecommunication Services (UTS), Columbus Communications Curacao). Median response time: 690 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Curacao changed its currency recently: on 31 March 2025 the Caribbean guilder (XCG), shared with Sint Maarten, replaced the Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG), which stopped being legal tender on 1 July 2025. The peg stayed at 1.79 per US dollar, but price histories that span the switch carry two currency codes and need to be joined carefully. Papiamentu is the everyday language, with Dutch and English also official and Spanish widely understood, so storefronts, menus and news appear in several languages, and visitor-facing businesses quote US dollars. Local retail monitoring centers on supermarkets such as Centrum, Mangusa and Van den Tweel. News and ad inventory splits by language: Antilliaans Dagblad in Dutch, Extra in Papiamentu, Curacao.nu for Dutch-language online news and the Curacao Chronicle in English. Mobile data comes from Flow and Digicel. Tourism pricing reflects the island's ties to the Netherlands: KLM flies direct from Amsterdam, Dutch holidaymakers are a leading source market alongside North and South Americans, and short hops to Bonaire run on Divi Divi Air and EZ Air. Google is the standard search engine. Because Dutch-language searches compete with pages written for the Netherlands, rankings for Curacao hotels, dive operators and restaurants should be checked from a Curacao connection. Like Aruba, Curacao sits outside the European Union; its Landsverordening bescherming persoonsgegevens (national ordinance on personal data protection), published in 2010 and in force since 1 October 2013, applies to personal data, and projects that gather it should be reviewed against the ordinance. Willemstad is where most listings and prices concentrate. Its historic districts Punda and Otrobanda, on either side of St. Anna Bay, have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, and nearby Pietermaai is full of restaurants and boutique hotels. East of the capital, Jan Thiel and Mambo Beach hold larger resorts and apartment complexes popular with Dutch visitors, while Bandabou, the rural west around Westpunt, offers beaches such as Grote Knip and smaller guesthouses. Flights beyond Amsterdam come from American (Charlotte and Miami), JetBlue (New York JFK), Copa (Panama City) and Avianca (Bogotá), so fare and package checks should cover those gateways as well as the Dutch market. --- ## Cyprus residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/cyprus-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 45 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 10 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Limassol, Nicosia). Networks seen: 4 (Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, Primetel, Cablenet Communication Systems). Median response time: 1420 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Greek is the main language of Cypriot storefronts and news, but English is used widely in shops, property listings and services, and Limassol has a large Russian-speaking community with its own agents and media. Prices are in euros (EUR). Many buyers also order from shops in Greece and the wider EU, so island shipping costs and delivery times are part of any price comparison. The north of the island, outside the areas controlled by the Republic of Cyprus, uses the Turkish lira and mostly Turkish-language services. Bazaraki is the dominant classifieds site for property, cars and used goods, and the main place to follow rents in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos. Foody and Wolt compete in food and grocery delivery, and Stephanis and Bionic are the best-known electronics retailers. Philenews, Sigmalive and Politis carry Greek-language news, while Cyprus Mail and In-Cyprus reach English readers. Cyprus drives on the left and uses UK-style plugs, so car and electrical listings differ from Greece, with many right-hand-drive imports in the used-car market. Hotel rates in Ayia Napa and Paphos swing with the summer season. Google dominates search, and results for the same query differ between Greek and English: Greek queries often pull in sites from Greece, and English ones can bring up UK pages. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Law 125(I)/2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. Travel pricing for Cyprus runs mostly through the air. Hermes Airports, a French-led group, operates both Larnaca and Paphos airports under a concession won in 2006. Larnaca is the hub for Cyprus Airways and Tus Airways, Aegean Airlines also has a base there, and Wizz Air uses it as a focus city, so fares to Athens, Tel Aviv, London and Central Europe reflect a mix of local and low-cost carriers. Paphos, on the west coast, is served by a different set of airlines, and the same dates can price differently from each airport. Fare checks should compare Larnaca and Paphos departures for the same route rather than assume one airport sets the price. --- ## Czech Republic residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/czech-republic-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 61 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 20 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 9 (Jaroměř, Prague, Štěnovice, Nýřany, Krnov). Networks seen: 10 (Vodafone Czech Republic, fop_lytsik_vitaliy_yaroslavovich, Onet Group). Median response time: 820 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Price comparison sits at the centre of Czech e-commerce. Shoppers buy in Czech crowns (CZK) from Czech-language stores and expect local delivery choices: pickup at a Zásilkovna (Packeta) point or parcel box is as normal as home delivery, and cash on delivery (dobírka) is still widely offered. Checking a comparison site before buying is routine, which gives those sites unusual weight in how shops win traffic. Many Czech e-commerce brands also run Slovak versions, such as Alza.sk and Heureka.sk, with separate euro prices. Heureka.cz and Seznam's Zboží.cz are the main comparison engines, Alza.cz is the largest domestic online retailer, and Allegro.cz absorbed Mall.cz in 2024. Bazoš.cz carries classifieds, Sreality.cz and Bezrealitky.cz list property, and Rohlik.cz delivers groceries in Prague and other cities. Wolt, foodora and Bolt Food compete for restaurant delivery, RegioJet and Czech Railways compete on train fares, and iDNES.cz, Novinky.cz and Seznam Zprávy are among the biggest news sites. Seznam.cz still runs its own search engine alongside Google and sells ads through its Sklik platform, so Czech rankings and paid results need checking on both. Seznam also feeds its own news, maps and Zboží.cz listings into its results, which gives Czech shops a second set of positions to track. Many people also type queries without háčky and čárky, so keyword checks should include both spellings. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Act No. 110/2019 Coll. on the Processing of Personal Data. The Czech shopping calendar peaks around Christmas, with local timing. Presents are opened on the evening of 24 December, when Ježíšek, the baby Jesus, is said to bring them, so shops set Christmas delivery cut-offs for the days before the 24th rather than the 25th. On the evening of 5 December, St Nicholas (Mikuláš) visits children with sweets and small gifts, which creates an earlier wave of confectionery and toy sales. In the days before Christmas Eve, live carp are sold from tubs in the streets for the traditional dinner. The school year starts on 1 September, so back-to-school promotions run through August. --- ## Democratic Republic of the Congo residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 23 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Goma). Networks seen: 8 (Liquid Telecommunications, GVA Cote d'Ivoire, Starlink). Median response time: 1030 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CD · Review by: 2026-11-30. Dollars and francs sit side by side in the DR Congo's online market. The Congolese franc (CDF) is the legal currency, but rents, cars, electronics and many online listings are quoted in US dollars, sometimes beside franc prices on the same page, so price trackers need to store the currency of each listing. Sites and search run in French, with Lingala widely spoken in Kinshasa and Swahili in Lubumbashi and the east. Payments run on mobile wallets, mainly Vodacom's M-Pesa, Orange Money and Airtel Money, with Africell's Afrimoney and Wave as newer options. Kinshasa is the main online market, while Lubumbashi and Goma are separate regional centres whose supply routes run through Zambia and Rwanda. Within Kinshasa, Gombe holds most offices, embassies and higher-end rentals, so its property listings sit in a separate price band from the rest of the city. CoinAfrique runs a DR Congo edition for phones, vehicles and property. Tupuca, which started in Angola, operates its delivery and taxi super app here, and Yango also runs ride-hailing. For publisher monitoring, Actualite.cd, 7sur7.cd and Radio Okapi's news site are the national outlets where local display ads appear. Google is the dominant search engine. French results for Congolese queries compete with Belgian, French and Brazzaville-based pages, so rank checks should come from connections inside the country. Personal data is covered by Ordonnance-loi No. 23/010 of 13 March 2023 on the Digital Code, which also requires many organisations to appoint a data protection officer. French is the language of the state, storefronts and search, but four national languages divide the country by region, and they shape social content and video ads. Lingala dominates Kinshasa and the north-west along the river. Congo Swahili, which differs noticeably from the standard Swahili of Kenya and Tanzania, is used across the east, from Goma and Bukavu down to Lubumbashi. Kikongo, in its Kituba form, is the vehicular language of Kongo Central, including Matadi and Boma, and Tshiluba is spoken in the Kasai regions around Mbuji-Mayi and Kananga. Brands localising social posts or video ads should match the language to the region instead of running one national version. --- ## Denmark residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/denmark-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 42 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 7 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Hvidovre, Brøndby Strand, Charlottenlund). Networks seen: 4 (DKTV, Hi3G Access, FIBIA P/S). Median response time: 1810 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-DK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Mobile payments and pickup points define Danish checkouts. Storefronts price in Danish kroner (DKK) and are written in Danish, though many shoppers read English comfortably and Swedish and German shops compete for their orders. MobilePay, now part of Vipps MobilePay, and the co-branded Visa/Dankort debit card are the standard ways to pay, and parcels commonly go to a pickup point or parcel locker rather than the door. Domestic chains lead retail: Elgiganten, Proshop and Power sell electronics, Salling Group runs Bilka and føtex online, and Nemlig.com delivers groceries, while weekly offers from Netto, Rema 1000 and other chains are browsed on the Tjek app, formerly eTilbudsavis. DBA.dk is the country's largest general classifieds site and Bilbasen the main car marketplace, while Boligsiden gathers homes for sale from estate agents and Boliga shows past sale prices. PriceRunner is widely used to compare offers, and CDON brings Nordic marketplace listings priced in kroner. Just Eat, founded in Denmark in 2001, competes with Wolt for food delivery, and TV 2, Politiken, Ekstra Bladet and BT are major commercial news sites. Google dominates search in Denmark. Trustpilot, founded in Copenhagen, is also a common check before buying for Danish shoppers, so Danish-language review pages there belong in brand monitoring. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Danish Data Protection Act of 2018 (databeskyttelsesloven), which does not extend to Greenland or the Faroe Islands. The Danish market has an unusual edge in the North Atlantic. The Faroe Islands and Greenland belong to the Kingdom of Denmark but sit outside the EU, so Danish web shops often exclude them at checkout or ship on separate terms with customs handling, and prices for those addresses may be shown without Danish VAT. Greenland uses the Danish krone, while the Faroes issue their own króna notes at par with it. Faroese and Greenlandic are the main local languages, with Danish widely used alongside them. A retailer that says it ships across Denmark may still mean only the mainland and its islands. --- ## Dominican Republic residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/dominican-republic-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 60 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 11 (Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo Este, Moca, Santiago de los Caballeros, Arroyo Hondo). Networks seen: 23 (Compania Dominicana de Telefonos S. A, ALTICE DOMINICANA, TELECABLE DOMINICANO). Median response time: 650 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-DO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Dominican storefronts are in Spanish and price in Dominican pesos (DOP), usually written RD$, while resort rooms in Punta Cana and Bávaro, real estate and some used cars are quoted in US dollars. Card payments on local sites usually run through the acquirers Azul and CardNET, and imported goods often arrive through courier services such as Aeropost that give shoppers a Miami address for buying from US stores. Corotos is the country's main general classifieds site and SuperCarros the reference for vehicles. For grocery and household prices, teams check Supermercados Nacional and Jumbo, both run by Centro Cuesta Nacional, as well as La Sirena, run by Grupo Ramos, Supermercados Bravo and Plaza Lama, which sells groceries, electronics and home goods under one roof. PedidosYa and Uber Eats cover restaurant delivery, and Mercado Libre runs a Dominican site. News and ad inventory is concentrated in Diario Libre, Listín Diario, El Día and Hoy. Commerce centers on Santo Domingo and on Santiago de los Caballeros, the hub of the northern Cibao region, while the eastern coast around Punta Cana and Bávaro runs on dollar-priced, largely all-inclusive tourism, so hotel rate checks and grocery price checks call for different locations and currencies. Google is the dominant search engine, and Spanish-language results for Dominican businesses sit beside English pages written for North American and European travelers. Data protection rests on Law No. 172-13 on the protection of personal data (2013); teams planning to collect personal information should confirm how it applies to them. Travel prices depend on which of several airports a trip uses. Punta Cana International serves the eastern resort coast, Las Américas outside Santo Domingo handles the capital, Cibao International serves Santiago and the north-central region, and Gregorio Luperón at Puerto Plata and La Romana's airport cover the north coast and the southeast. Arajet, a low-cost airline that began flying in September 2022 from hubs in Santo Domingo and Punta Cana, competes with US and Latin American carriers on routes such as Miami, Toronto, Buenos Aires and São Paulo. On land, Caribe Tours runs intercity buses, the budget option for comparing trips between Santo Domingo, Santiago and Puerto Plata. --- ## Ecuador residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/ecuador-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 61 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 14 (Guayaquil, Quito, Machala, Ambato, Cuenca). Networks seen: 20 (Telconet, UFINET PANAMA, SERVICIOS DE TELECOMUNICACIONES SETEL (XTRIM EC)). Median response time: 710 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-EC · Review by: 2026-11-30. Ecuador adopted the US dollar as its currency in 2000, so Ecuadorian stores price in USD, but taxes, import costs and delivery terms make local prices differ from US storefronts selling the same goods. Card purchases are often paid diferido, spread over monthly installments, and retailers advertise how many months each bank's cards can defer without interest. Shop pages, ads and search all run in Spanish. Two cities anchor the market: Quito, the capital, in the Andean highlands and Guayaquil, the country's main port, on the coast, each with its own leading newspaper, El Comercio and El Universo respectively. Supermaxi and Megamaxi from Corporación Favorita, Tía and Comandato are the retail names teams watch, together with De Prati for fashion and home goods and Mercado Libre Ecuador for marketplace prices. Plusvalia covers property, Patiotuerca lists cars, and PedidosYa and Uber Eats compete in delivery. Cuenca, the third city, and the Galápagos, where goods arrive by sea or air from the mainland, add their own price levels. Google dominates search, and store, restaurant and property results differ between Quito and Guayaquil, so local ranking checks need to cover both cities. Primicias and Expreso sit beside El Comercio and El Universo as ad inventory. Personal data falls under the Organic Law on Personal Data Protection (Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales), published in May 2021, with its sanctions regime applying from May 2023 and a Superintendency of Personal Data Protection overseeing it. Ecuador runs two school calendars, and they shift travel demand. Schools in the Sierra and Amazon region start in September and break in July and August, while the Costa and Galápagos region starts around May and breaks from February to April, so holiday demand and hotel rates peak at different times for families from Quito and from Guayaquil. National holidays add long weekends: Carnaval in February or March, Día de Difuntos on 2 November followed by Cuenca's independence day on 3 November, and the Fiestas de Quito in early December. Flights to the Galápagos leave only from Quito and Guayaquil for the airports on Baltra and San Cristóbal, so island fares should be checked from both cities. --- ## Egypt residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/egypt-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 44 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 9 (Cairo, Giza, Zagazig, Alexandria, Al Fayyum). Networks seen: 4 (IDDQD, Vodafone Data, Link Egypt (Link.NET)). Median response time: 640 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-EG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Egyptian storefronts default to Arabic, with English versions on most large sites, and search queries mix Egyptian Arabic, standard Arabic, English and Arabic written in Latin letters and numbers, which Egyptians call Franco. Prices are in Egyptian pounds (EGP), and the devaluation of March 2024 set off rapid repricing, so price series need regular collection. Cash on delivery remains common, alongside Fawry payment codes, InstaPay bank transfers, the Vodafone Cash wallet and instalment plans from valU. Three general marketplaces compete for the same shoppers: Amazon.eg, which replaced Souq.com in 2021, Noon and Jumia, each with its own November sale, which Amazon calls White Friday and Noon calls Yellow Friday. Talabat is the main food delivery app, and Breadfast runs fast grocery delivery in Cairo. Dubizzle, the former OLX Egypt, is the main classifieds site for cars and used goods, while Property Finder and Nawy list compounds in New Cairo and Sheikh Zayed. Youm7, Al-Masry Al-Youm and the English-language Ahram Online are the major news sites for publisher checks. Google is the default search engine, and Arabic, English and Franco spellings of the same product return different competitors, so keyword sets need all three. Personal data falls under the Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020, whose executive regulations were issued in November 2025 with a one-year transition period and a Personal Data Protection Center under the communications ministry as regulator. Ramadan is Egypt's biggest advertising season. Families watch television drama after iftar, most series run for about thirty episodes to match the nights of the month, and Egyptian channels produce dozens of the Arabic serials that dominate the season. Advertisers pay premium rates for slots around the most-watched series, and the same campaigns run across YouTube, streaming apps and news sites, so ad verification during Ramadan catches the year's heaviest placements. Delivery and grocery apps shift their promotions toward iftar and suhoor times, and offers cluster in the last days before Eid al-Fitr. Because Ramadan moves about eleven days earlier each year, seasonal comparisons should follow the Hijri calendar, not Gregorian months. --- ## El Salvador residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/el-salvador-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 58 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 40 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 6 (San Salvador, San Miguel, Chalchuapa, Ahuachapan, San José Villanueva). Networks seen: 13 (MILLICOM CABLE EL SALVADOR, UFINET PANAMA, CONECTIVE). Median response time: 650 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SV · Review by: 2026-11-30. El Salvador has used the US dollar (USD) as its currency since 2001, so Salvadoran shop sites price in dollars and can be compared with US and Panamanian listings without conversion, unlike those of neighboring Guatemala and Honduras. Bitcoin became legal tender in 2021, but a January 2025 reform made accepting it voluntary for businesses and led the government to wind down its Chivo wallet, so bitcoin now appears only where a merchant chooses to keep it. Storefronts, search and ads are in Spanish, and Salvadoran publishers also reach a large diaspora in the United States, so an ad check from a US connection may not show what readers in San Salvador see. Teams monitoring the market usually start with Siman, the department-store chain with its own online shop, the supermarket chain Super Selectos and Encuentra24 for property, vehicles and jobs. Mercado Libre also runs a Salvadoran site. The main national publishers are La Prensa Gráfica and elsalvador.com, the site of El Diario de Hoy, and travel teams follow hotel and rental rates in the surf towns of El Tunco and El Zonte on the La Libertad coast. Google dominates search, and local results differ between San Salvador, Santa Ana and San Miguel. El Salvador's first general data-protection law, the Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales, was approved by Legislative Decree No. 144 on 12 November 2024 and took effect on 24 November, after an earlier bill passed in 2021 was vetoed. El Salvador's sales calendar has dates of its own. Mother's Day on 10 May and Father's Day on 17 June are public holidays, and retailers plan promotions around both. Holy Week closes offices for several days and sends many families to the beaches, which pushes up demand along the coast, while San Salvador's Fiestas Agostinas in early August bring another break and travel peak. Independence Day on 15 September is shared with Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and the Day of the Dead holiday on 2 November comes just before the Black Friday and Christmas season, so year-end price series start early. --- ## Estonia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/estonia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 44 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 7 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Tallinn, Kohtla-Järve, Maardu). Networks seen: 3 (Telia Eesti, Telset, Elisa Eesti). Median response time: 5140 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-EE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Two languages run through Estonia's online market. Storefronts are in Estonian, with Russian versions common because of the large Russian-speaking population in Tallinn and Ida-Viru County, and prices are in euros (EUR). Bank links from Swedbank, SEB and LHV are a normal checkout option, confirmed with the national ID card, Mobile-ID or Smart-ID, and parcel lockers from Omniva and other carriers are the usual delivery choice. The market is small, so many retailers serve Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from shared platforms with separate country prices. Kaup24.ee is one of the largest general online stores and absorbed Hansapost.ee, which closed in April 2025. It shares an owner with 220.lv in Latvia and Pigu.lt in Lithuania, which makes cross-Baltic price comparisons straightforward. Osta.ee runs auctions and fixed-price sales, Auto24.ee is the main car marketplace, and KV.ee and City24.ee list property. Bolt Food, from the Tallinn-based Bolt, competes with Wolt for delivery, and Postimees, Delfi and the public broadcaster ERR publish news in both Estonian and Russian. Tallink and Viking Line ferry fares between Tallinn and Helsinki are a regular travel pricing check, and some Tallinn retailers add Finnish versions for visitors. Google dominates search. Russian-language queries from Estonia can return sites from Latvia or Russia alongside Estonian ones, so a check from inside Estonia shows which local pages actually rank. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Personal Data Protection Act, adopted in December 2018 and in force since January 2019. Estonia's regions differ more than its size suggests. Tallinn and Harju County form the largest market, while Tartu, the university city in the south-east, has its own regional news on Tartu Postimees and its own property and rental prices. The islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa depend on state-run ferries booked through praamid.ee, whose car and passenger fares matter for travel and logistics checks. On the Latvian border, Valga shares a town centre with Valka in Latvia, so local services straddle two countries. A national result tested only from Tallinn can miss what shoppers in Kuressaare or Valga see. --- ## Eswatini residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/eswatini-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 5 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Manzini, Mbabane). Networks seen: 2 (SWAZILAND PTC, Starlink). Median response time: 1170 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. English and siSwati are both official in Eswatini, but English dominates websites, shop pages and search. The lilangeni (SZL) is pegged one to one to the South African rand, and the rand is accepted alongside it, so prices are written with an E or an R and South African price lists carry over almost unchanged. The 2018 name change from Swaziland still splits search: people, directories and older sites use both names, which matters for keyword tracking and for how businesses describe where they are. Retail is closely tied to South Africa. Shoprite, Pick n Pay and Spar run stores in Mbabane and Manzini, shoppers compare prices across the border, and several South African online stores do not deliver into Eswatini, so local ordering leans on shop websites, Facebook pages and WhatsApp. Mobile money is widespread: MTN MoMo and e-Mali from Eswatini Mobile handle transfers, bills and merchant payments. For news and advertising, the Times of Eswatini and the Eswatini Observer are the main publishers, and hotels in the Ezulwini Valley and around Mbabane are the core of travel rate comparison. Eswatini queries on Google, the dominant engine, often return South African .co.za pages ahead of local ones, which makes checks from Eswatini connections useful for local businesses. Personal data falls under the Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 5 of 2022). Travel pricing in Eswatini splits between air and road. King Mswati III International Airport at Sikhuphe, in the Lubombo region, replaced Matsapha for commercial flights in 2014; Airlink flies there from Johannesburg, and Eswatini Air serves Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Harare. Many visitors drive instead, entering from South Africa at the Oshoek–Ngwenya post on the Johannesburg road, or from Mozambique at Lomahasha. Hlane, Mlilwane and Mkhaya, the reserves run by Big Game Parks, take bookings directly, so their rates are worth comparing with the same nights sold through South African tour operators and booking sites. --- ## Ethiopia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/ethiopia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 57 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 51 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Addis Ababa, Awasa, Tulu Bolo, Bahir Dar). Networks seen: 3 (Ethio Telecom, WebSprix IT Solution, SAFARICOM TELECOMMUNICATIONS ETHIOPIA). Median response time: 1330 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ET · Review by: 2026-11-30. Amharic, written in the Ge'ez script, sits beside English on most Ethiopian apps and storefronts, with Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya used in regional media. Amharic keywords, Latin-script transliterations and English terms each return different pages. Dates on local sites and receipts often follow the Ethiopian calendar, which has thirteen months and runs seven to eight years behind the Gregorian one, so collected dates may need converting. Prices are in birr (ETB), which moved to a market-based exchange rate in July 2024, and imported goods have been repriced since. Payments are phone-based. Telebirr from Ethio Telecom is the largest wallet, M-Pesa arrived with Safaricom Ethiopia, and CBE Birr links to the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. Jiji runs an Ethiopian classifieds edition for cars, phones and rentals, mostly in Addis Ababa, and Yango competes with local ride-hailing apps. Ethiopian Airlines fares are the travel prices most teams track. Retail promotions follow local holidays: Enkutatash, the new year in September, Genna in January and Fasika at Orthodox Easter. Addis Standard and The Reporter are the main English-language publishers, and Fana and EBC publish news online in Amharic. Google is the dominant search engine, and Addis Ababa accounts for most online commerce, so rank and price checks should start there. Personal data is regulated by the Personal Data Protection Proclamation No. 1321/2024, which took effect in July 2024, names the Ethiopian Communications Authority as regulator and includes data localisation rules. Ethiopia's regional states work in different languages, and that changes both keywords and scripts. Afaan Oromo, the working language of Oromia, the largest region, is written in Qubee, a Latin alphabet formally adopted in 1991, while Amharic and Tigrinya use the Ge'ez script. A search for the same product can therefore need Ge'ez-script Amharic, Latin-script Oromo and English variants. Beyond Addis Ababa, the main regional cities are Adama and Jimma in Oromia, Bahir Dar and Gondar in Amhara, Hawassa in Sidama, Dire Dawa in the east and Mekelle in Tigray. Localised pages and ads should be checked in the script and language each region actually reads. --- ## Fiji residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/fiji-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 6 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Suva, Nadi). Networks seen: 3 (Telecom Fiji, Vodafone Fiji, Digicel Fiji). Median response time: 990 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-FJ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Fiji's online market is small, English-language and shaped by tourism and mobile money. Storefronts and search run in English, with iTaukei and Fiji Hindi common in everyday use, and prices are in FJD. Vodafone Fiji's M-PAiSA and Digicel's MyCash wallets are widely used alongside cards and bank transfer, and hire purchase is still a normal way to buy furniture and appliances: Courts Fiji advertises it online next to click and collect. Local retail sites are few, and each works differently. MH Online, the web store of the MH supermarket chain, gives free delivery on orders over FJ$200 within 5 km of selected stores, so delivery terms depend on how close the buyer is to a branch. Vinod Patel sells hardware and home goods in FJD and accepts M-PAiSA. Local news and display advertising run through The Fiji Times and Fijivillage among others, and many small businesses sell through Facebook pages rather than their own sites. Tourism sets the prices most outsiders compare. Resorts on Denarau, the Coral Coast and the Mamanuca and Yasawa islands sell through their own sites and online travel agencies, and Fiji Airways fares and South Sea Cruises island transfers are worth checking as a Fijian visitor sees them, since airline and tour prices often vary with the country and currency of the booking. Google is the main search engine. Fiji has no general data-protection law yet: section 24 of the 2013 Constitution protects privacy, and Cabinet endorsed a National Privacy and Personal Data Protection Policy in 2025 as the basis for future legislation. Domestic travel is a separate price category in Fiji because many of its islands are reached only by small aircraft or boat. Fiji Link, the domestic subsidiary of Fiji Airways, flies from its Nadi hub and from Suva's Nausori Airport to Labasa, Savusavu, Taveuni and Kadavu, and to smaller islands including Rotuma and Vanua Balavu. Northern Air serves Suva, Nadi, Labasa, Savusavu, Taveuni, Levuka and Moala, and also flies charters. Both sell seats online in FJD, so a Taveuni or Savusavu resort package can be compared with the domestic fare a buyer would otherwise pay on top of an international ticket to Nadi. --- ## France residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/france-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 68 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 47 (Paris, Marseille, Angers, Charvieu-Chavagneux, La Ciotat). Networks seen: 7 (Free, Bouygues Telecom, Orange). Median response time: 280 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 2.9M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-FR · Review by: 2026-11-30. French storefronts must speak French: the 1994 Toubon Law requires French in advertising and consumer information, so global brands run fully translated catalogues priced in EUR. Checkouts lean on the domestic Carte Bancaire card network and on 'paiement en 3 ou 4 fois' instalment offers, and retail prices move around the soldes, the winter and summer sales whose dates are set nationally. The platforms most worth watching are Amazon.fr, Cdiscount, Fnac and Darty for new goods, Leboncoin for classifieds, used cars and property, Vinted for second-hand clothing, Back Market for refurbished electronics, SeLoger for homes and SNCF Connect for rail fares. Grocery 'drive' services from E.Leclerc, Carrefour and Intermarché, where shoppers order online and collect by car, set prices store by store. Uber Eats and Deliveroo compete in food delivery. Le Monde, Le Figaro and the regional daily Ouest-France are among the largest ad-funded publishers. Google handles most searches, while Qwant, a French-built engine, and Bing hold smaller shares. Consent shapes what loads on a French page: the CNIL expects a 'refuse all' button as easy to use as 'accept all' and fined Google and Facebook in 2022 for making refusal harder, so ads and tags differ with the visitor's choice. The 1991 Évin Law restricts alcohol advertising, so drinks brands run different creative in France than in neighbouring countries. Personal data falls under the Loi Informatique et Libertés (Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978) alongside the GDPR. Several product categories follow French rules that change what a visitor sees. New books carry a single price set by the publisher under the 1981 Lang law, and sellers may discount them by no more than 5%, so book prices barely differ between Amazon.fr, Fnac and independent bookshops. A 2021 law nicknamed the anti-Amazon law also sets a minimum delivery charge on online book orders, ending free book delivery. Non-prescription medicines can be sold online only by pharmacists attached to a physical French pharmacy, and tobacco cannot be sold online at all, only through licensed tobacconists. Price monitoring in these categories should expect near-identical prices and focus on delivery fees and stock. --- ## French Guiana residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/french-guiana-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 6 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Cayenne, Matoury, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni). Networks seen: 2 (Orange, Canal + Telecom). Median response time: 710 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GF · Review by: 2026-11-30. French Guiana shops and searches in French, but its prices behave differently from mainland France in ways a check from Paris will miss. The currency is the euro (EUR), yet VAT does not apply in the territory at all; the octroi de mer, a local levy on imported goods, shapes shelf prices instead, so the same product is priced differently here than in Martinique or Guadeloupe. Mainland retailers treat postcodes starting with 973 as overseas, which changes delivery fees, delivery times and sometimes whether an item can be ordered. Most people live on the coast, in and around Cayenne, Kourou and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, while interior communes such as Maripasoula and Saül are reached by river or by Guyane Express Fly flights, so delivery and service pages vary sharply by town. Brazilian Portuguese, Sranan Tongo, Maroon languages and Hmong are heard alongside French and Guianese Creole, and cross-border trade runs over the Oyapock bridge to Oiapoque in Brazil and across the Maroni river from Albina in Suriname. Teams watching the market follow leboncoin's Guyane listings for cars and rentals, France-Guyane and Guyane la 1ère for news and display advertising, and fares on the Paris–Cayenne route, where Air France flies from Charles de Gaulle and Air Caraïbes from Orly. Google in French is the default search engine, and local results cluster around Cayenne, Matoury and Rémire-Montjoly, so a ranking check from the mainland returns different map packs and ads. As part of France and an outermost region of the EU, French Guiana falls under the GDPR and the Loi Informatique et Libertés of 6 January 1978. The calendar peaks early. French Guiana's carnival runs from Epiphany in early January to Ash Wednesday, with parades every Sunday afternoon in Cayenne, Kourou and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni and the paré-masqué balls, where masked touloulous choose their dance partners, a tradition found nowhere else. Costume, fabric, event and nightlife advertising builds through those weeks, and local listings fill with balls and parades. Kourou runs on a second calendar set by the Guiana Space Centre: launch campaigns, including Ariane 6 missions since its first flight on 9 July 2024, bring engineers, clients and visitors to the town, so Kourou hotel and car-rental prices are best compared against the launch schedule rather than the tourist season. --- ## Gabon residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/gabon-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 35 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Libreville, Port-Gentil). Networks seen: 3 (Gabon Telecom / Office of Posts and Telecommunications of Gabon, GVA Cote d'Ivoire, Airtel Gabon). Median response time: 920 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Gabon's online buyers cluster in and around Libreville, on the Komo estuary, while Port-Gentil and Franceville form much smaller secondary pools. French is the only language that storefronts, advertisers and result pages use at any scale. Prices are quoted in the XAF franc issued by the Bank of Central African States, the money Gabon shares with its CEMAC partners, and because nearly everything on supermarket shelves arrives by ship, price tags in Libreville run high. Buyers pay through Airtel's wallet or through Moov Africa Gabon Télécom's Moov Money, and plenty still hand banknotes to the courier at the door. Gozem, the super app founded in Togo, is the storefront most worth watching in Libreville: one account books a car, orders a restaurant meal or groceries, sends a gas cylinder and pays through Gozem Money, so menu tags and courier charges sit on one screen. For second-hand cars, phones, plots and flats, CoinAfrique runs a Gabonese edition. Yango, which operates in Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville, has no Gabonese service, and neither does Jumia, so the benchmark set here is short. Publisher checks centre on L'Union, the veteran daily, and on the web outlets Gabonreview, Gabonactu, Gabon Media Time and Médias241. Nearly every search in Gabon goes through Google, yet a French query typed in Libreville often brings up sites from France or Douala next to Gabonese ones, which is why rankings have to be read from inside the country. Gabon's 2011 personal data statute, Law 001/2011, was revised in July 2023 by Law 025/2023, which turned the old CNPDCP commission into the APDPVP, an authority with wider powers and offices in the provinces; anyone gathering personal information should read the amended text first. Distances are long and the road network thin, so rail and air tickets carry unusual weight in Gabonese travel pricing. The Transgabonais line covers 648 km between the mineral port of Owendo, beside Libreville, and Franceville in the south-east. Its operator, SETRAG, belongs to the manganese company COMILOG, and although ore wagons earn most of its revenue, it sells seats on an express and an all-stations train, mostly overnight and four days a week. Port-Gentil sits on Mandji Island in the Ogooué delta, and most travellers from the capital reach it on scheduled flights, so fare comparisons there come down to airline seats. --- ## Gambia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/gambia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 7 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Banjul). Networks seen: 3 (Gamtel, Starlink, DK Telecom). Median response time: 580 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Surrounded by French-speaking Senegal on every side except its Atlantic coast, the Gambia is a narrow English-speaking country, and that shapes its online market. Sites, news and search run in English, while Mandinka and Wolof dominate conversation and social media on both sides of the border. Prices are in dalasi (GMD), not the CFA franc used next door, so goods traded across the border carry two currencies. Wave, which says it is the market leader here, competes with Africell's Afrimoney and QCell's QMoney for everyday payments and transfers. Tourism is the part of the market most teams price. Hotels along the coast at Kotu, Cape Point and the Senegambia strip in Kololi are sold by European tour operators such as TUI during the winter season, so hotel rates and flights into Banjul are the most-watched prices. Money sent home by Gambians abroad is central to household income, which makes transfer fees and exchange rates into dalasi another commonly compared figure. Serrekunda, the largest urban area, is the main commercial centre. For publisher monitoring, The Point, Foroyaa and The Standard are the established papers, and Kerr Fatou publishes news online. Google is the dominant search engine, and Gambian queries often return Senegalese and British pages beside local ones, so rank checks need Gambian connections. The Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2025, the country's first general data protection law, received presidential assent in November 2025. The Gambia River splits the country along its whole length, and crossing it shapes trade. The Senegambia Bridge near Farafenni opened in January 2019, replacing a ferry crossing where trucks could wait days, and it carries the Trans-Gambia Highway linking northern Senegal with Casamance. The trip from Dakar to Ziguinchor now takes about five hours instead of a day, making the Gambian crossing a much quicker route for Senegalese traffic. Upriver towns such as Farafenni, Janjanbureh and Basse are far from the Greater Banjul area, where most shops, hotels and online sellers are, so prices, stock and delivery options there differ from the coast. --- ## Georgia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/georgia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 59 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 38 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Tbilisi, Batumi, Ninotsminda, Rustavi). Networks seen: 9 (Silknet, Magticom, System Net). Median response time: 490 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Georgian sites use the Georgian alphabet, with Russian and English versions common on retail and travel pages, and prices are in lari (GEL). Two banks, TBC and Bank of Georgia, dominate payments: their cards and apps appear at most checkouts, and paying for phones and appliances in installments through them is common. Tbilisi carries most online demand, but Batumi's tourism economy gives it a seasonal pattern of its own for rentals, hotels and restaurants. The TNET group's MyMarket.ge, MyAuto.ge and MyHome.ge are the main classifieds for goods, cars and property, with SS.ge as the other big source for apartment listings, so rents in Tbilisi and Batumi are best tracked across both. Electronics chains Zoommer and Alta have large online stores, parcel forwarders bring in orders from US, Turkish and Chinese sites, and Glovo and Wolt run food and grocery delivery in the bigger cities. Interpressnews, Civil.ge and Netgazeti are among the news sites used for display-ad checks. Google dominates search for Georgian, English and Russian queries alike. Because Tbilisi and Batumi draw many foreign visitors, hotels, restaurants and tour operators are searched in all three languages, so their rankings and map listings should be checked in each. The Law of Georgia on Personal Data Protection, adopted on 14 June 2023 with its main provisions in force from 1 March 2024, brought local rules closer to the EU's GDPR; any project that keeps personal details should be reviewed against it. Flights and trains set much of Georgia's travel pricing. Kutaisi airport, in the west, is a base for Wizz Air, with Pegasus and FlyArystan also flying in, so budget fares to Georgia often mean landing in Kutaisi rather than Tbilisi and continuing by bus or train. Georgian Railway's Tbilisi to Batumi trains sell out quickly in summer, and the mountain resorts of Gudauri and Bakuriani fill during the ski season. Guesthouse and hotel rates in those resorts, and in Kazbegi and Svaneti during the summer hiking months, move with the weather, so resort rate checks should fix the travel dates. --- ## Germany residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/germany-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 43 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 27 (Berlin, Haslach im Kinzigtal, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Holzkirchen). Networks seen: 15 (1&1 Versatel, Starlink, MK Netzdienste). Median response time: 360 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 3.5M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-DE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Payment choice and price comparison shape German online shopping: PayPal and purchase on invoice (Kauf auf Rechnung) sit beside cards at most checkouts, and looking up a product on Idealo or Check24 is a normal step before buying. Prices are in euros (EUR), storefronts are in German, and consent banners are standard on commercial sites, which changes what a first-time visitor sees before any content loads. Amazon.de is the largest store, with Otto, Kaufland.de and MediaMarkt as the main domestic rivals and Zalando leading fashion. Otto and Kaufland.de also run open marketplaces, so the same product often appears from several sellers at different prices, and eBay.de remains large for new and used goods. Kleinanzeigen, known as eBay Kleinanzeigen until 2023, is the default classifieds site, ImmoScout24 is the largest property portal, and Lieferando and Wolt compete for restaurant delivery, while REWE and Knuspr deliver groceries in larger cities. Deutsche Bahn fares on bahn.de change with demand, which makes rail a common travel pricing check. Bild, Spiegel and t-online are among the biggest publishers for display and video campaigns. Google dominates search, with Bing and the Berlin-based Ecosia as smaller alternatives. google.de results and local packs vary between cities, so checks for Berlin, Hamburg or Munich can return different shops and ads for the same query. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) of 2018, and cookie consent under the TDDDG, renamed in 2024. Some German categories are priced or sold under rules that change what a visitor sees. New books carry fixed prices under the Book Price Fixing Act, so Amazon.de, Thalia and independent bookshops charge the same price for the same new title, and book price monitoring shows differences only in shipping, special editions or used copies. Prescription medicines are ordered with the electronic prescription, mandatory since January 2024, and Netherlands-based mail-order pharmacies such as DocMorris and Shop Apotheke compete with German pharmacies for over-the-counter products and prescriptions alike. Price checks on medicines should therefore compare those online pharmacies with the pharmacy prices shown on comparison sites. --- ## Ghana residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/ghana-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 14 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Accra, Tema). Networks seen: 4 (Scancom, Starlink, Teledata). Median response time: 780 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GH · Review by: 2026-11-30. Ghana shops, advertises and searches in English, while Twi and other Ghanaian languages appear more in social media and broadcasting than on shop pages. Prices are in cedis (GHS), and the cedi's swings against the dollar mean imported electronics and cars are repriced often. Mobile money dominates payments: MTN MoMo is the largest wallet, Telecel Cash replaced Vodafone Cash after the 2024 rebrand, and checkouts built on Hubtel or Paystack take wallets and cards together. Jumia runs its Ghanaian marketplace alongside Jiji, which absorbed the local classifieds site Tonaton in 2022 and is a main place to follow used car and phone prices. The Melcom department store chain is the usual reference for household goods and electronics. meQasa lists rentals and sales in cedis for Accra neighbourhoods such as East Legon, Cantonments and Spintex, plus Kumasi and Tema. Yango competes for rides. Delivery forms often ask for a GhanaPost GPS digital address, the national code system, so checkout QA should test that field with real Accra and Kumasi codes. For publisher monitoring, GhanaWeb, MyJoyOnline and Citi Newsroom are the major news sites. Google is the dominant search engine, and English queries from Ghana compete with Nigerian, British and US pages, so rank checks need Ghanaian connections. Personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843), enforced by the Data Protection Commission; a replacement Data Protection Bill has been in consultation since 2025. December is Ghana's peak season. Since the 2019 Year of Return campaign, the weeks from mid-December to New Year, known as Detty December, bring large numbers of diaspora visitors to Accra for concerts, parties and festivals such as AfroFuture at the end of the month. Flight seats into Accra, hotel rooms, short-let apartments and event tickets all come under pressure, and sponsorship and event advertising peak around the concerts. Price series that run through the year should mark December separately rather than averaging it in, and ad verification for Accra campaigns is most useful in those weeks, when placements, sponsored posts and outdoor tie-ins are at their densest. --- ## Greece residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/greece-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 49 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 18 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 8 (Athens, Thessaloniki, Kalamata, Peristeri, Serres). Networks seen: 8 (OTEnet, Medianet Invest Ae, Nova Telecommunications & Media Single Member). Median response time: 560 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Greek product searches usually start on Skroutz, which began as a price-comparison site in 2005 and is now the country's most-visited marketplace, or on BestPrice, its main comparison rival. Retail chains such as Public and Plaisio run large web shops beside them, and the supermarket chains Sklavenitis and AB Vassilopoulos sell groceries online. Retail storefronts are in Greek, while travel and hotel sites usually add English and other languages. Prices are in EUR and are often shown with a number of interest-free credit card instalments, and IRIS, the instant-payment service run by the interbank operator DIAS, now works at online checkouts alongside cards and cash on delivery. Car.gr is the main site for used vehicles, while xe.gr and Spitogatos carry property sales and rentals. Food delivery is split between efood, owned by Delivery Hero, and Wolt. Tourism shapes a large part of online pricing: ferry fares on Ferryhopper, Aegean Airlines and Sky Express flights to the islands, and island hotel rates all change through the season. Kathimerini, Proto Thema and in.gr are among the largest ad-funded publishers. Couriers such as ACS and Geniki Taxydromiki add surcharges for hard-to-reach areas, which include many islands, so checkout totals can differ between Athens and the Aegean. Google is the dominant search engine. Many users still type in Greeklish, Greek written in Latin letters, so keyword lists and ranking checks need both scripts. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Law 4624/2019, which implements it in Greece. Island travel pricing in Greece is split across many operators. Attica Group runs Blue Star Ferries, Superfast Ferries, Hellenic Seaways and ANEK Lines, Seajets sells high-speed crossings, and Minoan Lines links Piraeus with Heraklion on Crete. Fares to the same island differ by departure port, with Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio all serving the Cyclades, and by vessel type, deck seat or cabin. On land, Hellenic Train runs the Athens to Thessaloniki line, and regional KTEL bus companies sell intercity tickets on their own websites. Comparing a route therefore means checking the operators' sites as well as agencies, and recording port, vessel and class with every fare. --- ## Guadeloupe residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/guadeloupe-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 9 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 8 (Le Moule, Baie-Mahault, Le Gosier, Pointe-à-Pitre, Baillif). Networks seen: 3 (Orange, Canal + Telecom, Outremer Telecom). Median response time: 560 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GP · Review by: 2026-11-30. An archipelago of six inhabited islands, Guadeloupe splits its online market by geography. Most retail and delivery pages are built around the Pointe-à-Pitre, Les Abymes and Baie-Mahault conurbation and its Jarry business zone, while Basse-Terre, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes and La Désirade often get different delivery slots or none. Storefronts are in French, and Guadeloupean Creole is common in social video and radio. Prices are in euros (EUR) but carry a lower VAT rate than the mainland plus the octroi de mer on imports, and mainland retailers treat 971 postcodes as overseas. Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy became separate collectivities in 2007, so a check meant for Guadeloupe does not cover them. Teams watching the local market follow leboncoin's Guadeloupe listings for cars and rentals, France-Antilles and Guadeloupe la 1ère for news and display advertising, and RCI for radio-led campaigns. Travel is a large pricing category: Air Caraïbes is based in Les Abymes and uses Pointe-à-Pitre as its hub, Paris fares from Air Caraïbes, Corsair and Air France sit beside Montreal routes from Air Canada and Air Transat and a Miami route from American Airlines, and hotel and villa rates in Le Gosier, Sainte-Anne and Saint-François complete the comparison. Google in French dominates search, and map packs follow the commune, so a ranking check from Paris misses local results. The cost of living drove the 2009 general strike and remains a public issue; the bouclier qualité-prix, a basket of everyday products whose price is negotiated each year under a 2012 law, gives price monitoring a local benchmark. As part of France and the EU, Guadeloupe falls under the GDPR and the Loi Informatique et Libertés of 1978. Sea travel is its own pricing category. FRS Express des Îles, the former L'Express des Îles, sails from Pointe-à-Pitre to Marie-Galante and Les Saintes and on to Martinique, Dominica and Saint Lucia, so ferry fares belong beside air fares in any travel comparison. The calendar also has a peak that returns every four years: the Route du Rhum, a single-handed sailing race from Saint-Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre, is held in November, and its thirteenth edition falls in November 2026. Boats arrive over days and weeks, and accommodation near the Bas-du-Fort marina, boat services and race-related advertising around Pointe-à-Pitre concentrate on that window. --- ## Guatemala residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/guatemala-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 44 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Guatemala City, Esquipulas, Mixco). Networks seen: 9 (UFINET PANAMA, Servicios Innovadores de Comunicacion y Entretenimiento, NORTVCOM). Median response time: 600 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Guatemalan storefronts and search run in Spanish, though 22 Mayan languages, K'iche', Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel and Mam among the largest, are spoken at home, mostly in the western highlands. Prices are in quetzales (GTQ), while cars, property and some electronics are often listed in US dollars. Card purchases are commonly split into monthly instalments (cuotas), and cash on delivery is still widely offered, so checkout pages change with the payment option chosen. Delivery options are widest in Guatemala City and neighbouring Mixco and Villa Nueva, and narrow quickly in the other departments. A few groups dominate retail. Walmart runs Paiz, Despensa Familiar and Maxi Despensa, Cemaco sells home goods and Max sells electronics, each with its own online store, and PriceSmart operates membership warehouses in the capital. Mercado Libre keeps a Guatemalan site, Encuentra24 carries classified listings for cars, jobs and property, and PedidosYa handles food and grocery delivery. News and display advertising run through Prensa Libre, Soy502 and Publinews. Travel pricing is its own category, since hotels in Antigua Guatemala and around Lake Atitlán often quote rates in US dollars. Google dominates search, and results for Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango and Antigua Guatemala differ in local packs and ads, especially for hotels, restaurants and tours around Antigua. Guatemala has no general data-protection law yet: the Access to Public Information Law (Decree 57-2008) covers personal data held by public bodies, and data protection bills were still before Congress in 2026. Travel pricing follows a different map from retail. La Aurora airport in Guatemala City is the main gateway, and TAG, the Guatemala City-based airline, flies to Flores, the base for visiting Tikal, and to Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean, as well as to Roatán, San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Belize City, Cancún, Mérida and Tapachula. Holy Week is the busiest time of year in Antigua Guatemala, where the processions and street carpets draw large crowds, and Maundy Thursday through Holy Saturday are national holidays, so hotel and shuttle prices around Antigua and Lake Atitlán should be read against the Easter date. --- ## Guinea residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/guinea-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 55 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 8 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Conakry). Networks seen: 4 (ORANGE GUINEE, MOUNA Group Technology, Starlink). Median response time: 880 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GN · Review by: 2026-11-30. Conakry is the centre of Guinea's online market, home to most internet users, delivery services and advertisers. Sites and search run in French, while Pular, Maninka and Susu dominate everyday conversation and social media. Prices are in the Guinean franc (GNF), which sits outside the CFA zone, so Guinean prices do not map directly onto Senegal, Mali or Côte d'Ivoire, and the large nominal amounts need careful parsing. Orange Money is the dominant wallet, Wave has entered as a second option for transfers and merchant payments, and cards play a small role. CoinAfrique Guinée is the main general classifieds site for cars, phones, land and rentals in Conakry communes such as Kaloum, Ratoma and Matoto. Pan-African apps are scarce: Jumia, Jiji, Yango and Gozem do not operate here, so classifieds and publishers are where most monitoring happens. Business-hotel rates in Kaloum, where ministries and bank headquarters sit, are a common travel comparison. Guineenews, Africaguinee, Mosaique Guinée and Vision Guinée are the main online news sites for publisher checks. Google is the dominant search engine, and French queries from Guinea return local pages mixed with Senegalese, Ivorian and French results, so rank checks need Guinean connections. Personal data is covered by Law L/2016/037/AN of 28 July 2016 on cybersecurity and the protection of personal data, and an April 2025 presidential decree added rules on the security of personal data along with an 18-character personal identification number (NPI). Guinea divides into four natural regions, and each has its own centre and main language. Maritime Guinea, the coastal plain, is home to Conakry and the Susu language. Middle Guinea is the Fouta Djallon highlands, with Labé as its main city and Pular as the common language. Upper Guinea, the northern savanna around Kankan, speaks Maninka, and Forest Guinea in the south-east centres on Nzérékoré, near the Liberian and Ivorian borders. Distances between these regions are long and roads slow, so stock, prices and delivery options outside Conakry differ markedly. Localised social posts and audio ads should use the language of the region they target rather than one national version. --- ## Guyana residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/guyana-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 31 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Georgetown). Networks seen: 4 (Guyana Telephone & Telegraph, U Mobile (Cellular), E-Networks). Median response time: 790 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Offshore oil production in the Stabroek block began in December 2019, and prices in Georgetown have moved with it: rents, property, cars and hospitality now serve oil-sector companies and their staff as well as local buyers. Storefronts and search are in English, while Guyanese Creole dominates everyday speech and social video, and Guyanese Hindustani and Portuguese are heard in some communities. Prices are in Guyana dollars (GYD), with rents, property and many service contracts quoted in US dollars. Local monitoring covers Stabroek News, Kaieteur News, the state-owned Guyana Chronicle, News Room and Demerara Waves for news and display advertising, and Courts and Giftland Mall for retail pricing. MMG, the mobile money service, handles bill payments and transfers for many households. Air fares matter: Cheddi Jagan International at Timehri now has direct flights from Miami, New York, Houston, Toronto, Panama City, Bogotá and London, while Ogle airport near Georgetown handles regional and interior flights. In the far south, Lethem faces Bonfim in Brazil across the Takutu River and works as a cross-border shopping town. Google is the dominant search engine, and Georgetown results differ from those in Linden or New Amsterdam mainly in local packs. Guyana passed the Data Protection Act 2023 (Act No. 18 of 2023), but as of early 2026 the commencement order needed to bring it into force had not been issued. Guyana's holiday calendar mixes Hindu, Muslim, Christian and national dates, and retail follows it. Mashramani, the Republic Day festival on 23 February, brings parades and costume spending in Georgetown; Phagwah in February or March and Diwali in October or November are public holidays with their own gift, clothing and food peaks; Eid ul-Adha and Youman Nabi follow the Islamic calendar; and Indian Arrival Day on 5 May, Emancipation Day on 1 August and CARICOM Day in early July fill the middle of the year. Christmas brings the heaviest shopping, centred on Regent Street and Stabroek Market in Georgetown. --- ## Honduras residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/honduras-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 54 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 11 (San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Catacamas, Choloma, Puerto Cortés). Networks seen: 21 (UFINET PANAMA, CABLECOLOR, Starlink). Median response time: 650 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-HN · Review by: 2026-11-30. Honduran online demand splits between two centres: Tegucigalpa, the capital, and San Pedro Sula, the industrial and commercial hub of the north. A third, smaller market runs along the Caribbean coast from La Ceiba to the Bay Islands, where Roatán's English-speaking tourism economy quotes hotels, dive trips and property in US dollars. Everywhere else storefronts and search are in Spanish and prices are in lempiras (HNL). Card instalments and cash on delivery sit beside Tigo Money, the mobile wallet many households use for transfers and bill payments. Retail names to watch include Diunsa for department-store goods, Jetstereo for electronics and appliances, Supermercados La Colonia for groceries and Walmart's Paiz and Despensa Familiar chains. Mercado Libre runs a Honduran site, Encuentra24 carries cars, jobs and property listings, and PedidosYa handles food and grocery delivery in the main cities. Two of the largest newspapers, El Heraldo in Tegucigalpa and La Prensa in San Pedro Sula, belong to the same publishing group and carry much of the country's display advertising, with Proceso Digital among the main online-only outlets. Google is the default search engine, and local packs and ads for Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula differ enough that a ranking check needs both. Honduras has no general data-protection law yet: the Transparency and Access to Public Information Law of 2006 covers data held by public bodies, and a personal data protection bill has been stalled in Congress since 2018. Air travel changed in October 2021, when Palmerola International Airport opened near Comayagua and replaced Toncontín as the capital region's international airport; Toncontín, inside Tegucigalpa, now handles only domestic flights on small aircraft. Fare checks for the capital therefore start at Palmerola, while San Pedro Sula's Ramón Villeda Morales airport serves the north and Roatán receives direct flights from the United States and regional routes such as TAG from Guatemala City. The Roatán Ferry's Galaxy Wave sails twice a day each way between La Ceiba and Roatán, with tickets sold online, at the terminals and in its app. Cruise calls on Roatán add another layer of visitor demand. --- ## Hong Kong residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/hong-kong-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 11 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Kwun Tong, Mei Foo, Hung Hom, Tsuen Wan). Networks seen: 4 (Hong Kong Broadband Network, HKT, Datacamp). Median response time: 1020 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-HK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Traditional Chinese and English share Hong Kong's online market, with Cantonese phrasing common in search queries, forum posts and ads, and prices in Hong Kong dollars (HKD). Local payment methods shape checkout pages: Octopus, the Faster Payment System (FPS), PayMe, AlipayHK and WeChat Pay HK sit beside cards. Hong Kong has no sales tax, so displayed prices are final apart from delivery fees. Short delivery distances make same-day and next-day delivery routine, and many shoppers also order from Taobao and other mainland Chinese sites that ship to the city. HKTVmall is the largest home-grown online mall for groceries and household goods, Price.com.hk is the standard reference for electronics prices, and Carousell carries much of the second-hand trade. Food delivery has been a two-way contest between Keeta and foodpanda since Deliveroo left in April 2025, while OpenRice remains the main restaurant guide. Property listings run through 28Hse, Centaline and Squarefoot, and Klook, founded in Hong Kong, sells tours and attraction tickets. HK01, Yahoo Hong Kong and the LIHKG forum draw large local audiences, which makes them common places to check display and social placements. Google leads search, and results for Chinese queries can differ depending on whether they are typed in written Cantonese or standard written Chinese, so keyword sets should include both alongside English. Personal data is covered by the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486), enacted in 1995 and amended since. Travel and cross-border spending pull Hong Kong prices into wider comparisons. Cathay Pacific, its low-cost arm HK Express and Greater Bay Airlines, which began flying in July 2022, compete on regional routes from Hong Kong International Airport, and TurboJET ferries and cross-boundary buses over the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge link the city with Macau. High-speed trains from West Kowloon reach Shenzhen in minutes, and weekend trips north for shopping, dining and services became common after the border reopened in 2023. That puts Shenzhen prices into many local comparisons for restaurants, groceries, beauty and dental services. --- ## Hungary residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/hungary-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 34 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 9 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 7 (Balsa, Budapest, Komárom, Dunavecse, Hernád). Networks seen: 7 (PR-TELECOM Zrt, 2Connect Telecommunications Infrastructure & Network Services, Pick-Up). Median response time: 2170 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-HU · Review by: 2026-11-30. Prices in Hungary are in forints (HUF), and cash on delivery (utánvét) is still offered by many web shops beside card payment through local gateways such as SimplePay and Barion. Foxpost and Packeta lockers and Magyar Posta pick-up points are common delivery choices. Product research usually starts on Árukereső, the main price-comparison site, before moving to eMAG.hu, Alza.hu, MediaMarkt or Allegro.hu, which Allegro launched in October 2024 by folding in Mall.hu. Jófogás covers general classifieds and used goods, Használtautó.hu is the main used-car site, and ingatlan.com leads property listings. Kifli.hu, Tesco and Auchan sell groceries online, Szállás.hu is the main domestic holiday booking site, and Foodora and Wolt compete in food delivery; both accept the SZÉP card, an employer-funded benefit card for food and leisure which adds a separate payment option at Hungarian checkouts. Budapest holds much of the delivery-app and property market, so prices there do not represent Debrecen, Szeged, Pécs or smaller towns. Index, Telex, 24.hu and hvg.hu are among the most-read news publishers. Google dominates search. Hungarian attaches case endings to nouns, so one product or place name appears in many forms, such as 'Budapest', 'Budapesten' and 'Budapestre', and rankings for each form can differ; keyword lists need the inflected versions as well as spellings with and without accents such as ő and ű. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Act CXII of 2011 on the Right of Informational Self-Determination and on Freedom of Information. Hungary's travel prices follow two poles: Budapest and Lake Balaton. Wizz Air is headquartered in Budapest and uses Budapest Ferenc Liszt Airport as its primary hub, so its sales drive many fares out of the country. On Balaton, the peak season runs from June to the end of August, and resort towns such as Siófok, Keszthely and Balatonfüred price holiday rentals and hotels around that window. Spa towns such as Hévíz and Hajdúszoboszló attract visitors year-round. MÁV sells rail tickets through its own app, and drivers buy motorway e-vignettes (e-matrica) online with national or county validity before using toll roads. --- ## India proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/india-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 64 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 28 (Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ludhiana). Networks seen: 24 (Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel, Bharti Airtel for GPRS Service). Median response time: 920 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 794K+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-IN · Review by: 2026-11-30. India's online market is mobile-led and multilingual: most storefronts default to English, while Hindi and regional-language versions in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi and others keep spreading, and prices are in rupees (INR). UPI dominates digital payments through apps such as PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm, and cash on delivery remains common. Products carry a printed MRP (maximum retail price) that includes taxes, so discounts are usually shown as a percentage off MRP. Delivery promises and stock vary by PIN code, so the same product page can show different dates and availability in Mumbai, Bengaluru and smaller towns. Flipkart and Amazon.in lead general retail, Meesho sells low-priced goods largely to smaller-town buyers, Myntra and Nykaa cover fashion and beauty, and Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart deliver groceries within minutes in larger cities. Zomato and Swiggy run food delivery, MakeMyTrip and IRCTC handle much of travel booking, and 99acres, MagicBricks and Housing.com list property. JioMart, BigBasket and Croma add grocery and electronics depth, and festive sales such as Flipkart's Big Billion Days and Amazon's Great Indian Festival around Diwali reset prices across the market for weeks. Google is the dominant search engine, and Hindi, Hinglish and English versions of the same query can surface different pages and ads. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is coming into force in phases under the DPDP Rules notified on 14 November 2025, with most obligations due by May 2027. Several product categories look different to Indian visitors because of national or state rules. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 prohibits online money games and their advertising, and the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019 bans e-cigarette sales, so both should be absent from compliant listings and ad slots. Alcohol is regulated state by state: Gujarat, Bihar and Nagaland prohibit it, and national marketplaces do not sell it. Online pharmacies such as Tata 1mg, PharmEasy and Apollo 24|7 require a prescription upload for prescription medicines, which changes what a product page lets a visitor add to the cart. --- ## Indonesia proxy server URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/indonesia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 63 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 25 (Jakarta, Bekasi, Malang, Surabaya, Balikpapan). Networks seen: 34 (PT. Eka Mas Republik, PT. Telekomunikasi Selular, Telekomunikasi Indonesia). Median response time: 960 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 1.2M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ID · Review by: 2026-11-30. Indonesian commerce is phone-first and spread across thousands of islands, so shipping fees, stock and delivery times change with the buyer's city. Storefronts and search run in Bahasa Indonesia, with prices in rupiah (IDR). Checkout pages carry a long list of payment options: QRIS codes, the e-wallets GoPay, OVO, DANA and ShopeePay, bank virtual accounts, pay-later plans and cash on delivery. Most buying happens inside apps rather than mobile browsers, and payday sales and double-date campaigns such as 11.11 and 12.12 move prices sharply within hours. Shopee, Tokopedia and Lazada are the main marketplaces, with Tokopedia now combined with TikTok Shop's Indonesian business, and Blibli is strong in electronics and official brand stores. Traveloka and tiket.com lead flight and hotel booking, GoFood, GrabFood and ShopeeFood compete in food delivery, and Rumah123 and 99.co list property. Bukalapak, once a major marketplace, stopped selling physical goods in 2025 to focus on virtual products such as phone credit. Detik, Kompas and Tribunnews are the big news portals for display-ad checks. Storefronts stay in Indonesian, but social content and local ads often switch into Javanese, Sundanese or regional slang. Google is the dominant search engine, and local results differ by city: the same query from Jakarta, Surabaya or Medan can surface different stores and map listings. Law No. 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection (UU PDP) has applied in full since October 2024; collecting anything beyond public listings calls for a check against it first. Ramadan and Lebaran form Indonesia's biggest commercial season. Employers pay the THR holiday bonus before Idul Fitri, and marketplaces run Ramadan campaigns for clothing, food hampers and home goods in the weeks before. Then comes mudik, the homecoming trip, when flights on Garuda Indonesia, Citilink, Lion Air and Batik Air fill up, train seats on the KAI Access app sell out soon after release, and ferries between Merak on Java and Bakauheni on Sumatra run at capacity. The transport ministry caps domestic economy airfares, so during mudik seat availability matters as much as the fare, and travel checks should record both. --- ## Iraq residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/iraq-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 55 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 53 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 11 (Baghdad, Basra, Duhok, Erbil, Karbala). Networks seen: 23 (Earthlink Telecommunications Equipment Trading & Services DMCC, Hulum Almustakbal for Communication Engineering and Services, Kurdistan Net for Computer and Internet). Median response time: 790 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-IQ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online retail in Iraq runs largely on cash. Most orders are paid on delivery in IQD, while cars and property are often priced in US dollars, and card and wallet payments are growing through Qi Card and the ZainCash mobile wallet. Arabic storefronts dominate in Baghdad, Basra and the south, while the Kurdistan Region around Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok has its own delivery apps and many interfaces in Sorani Kurdish and English, so results from Baghdad do not stand in for Erbil. Miswag is the best-known general online store and treats cash on delivery as its default. OpenSooq Iraq is the main classifieds site for cars, homes and jobs. Food and grocery delivery is split between Talabat, which launched in Erbil in 2021 and has since spread to Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok, Toters, and Lezzoo, an Erbil-born app that also delivers from supermarkets and pharmacies. Baly adds ride-hailing and delivery in Baghdad. Shafaq News and Alsumaria are large Arabic publishers, and Rudaw and Kurdistan24 lead in the Kurdistan Region. Google is the main search engine, and Arabic and Kurdish queries return separate result sets, so rank checks need both where the Kurdistan Region matters. Sorani Kurdish is written in an Arabic-based script, so Kurdish and Arabic keywords can look alike to tools that only detect script. Iraq has no general data-protection law yet: a draft has been under discussion for several years, and privacy rests on the 2005 constitution and sector rules. Religious travel shapes Iraq's hotel and transport market more than leisure tourism does. Karbala and Najaf receive the largest pilgrim flows: the Arbaeen pilgrimage to Karbala draws tens of millions of visitors each year, many of them walking about 80 kilometres from Najaf over several days, and Ashura and other religious dates bring smaller peaks. These dates follow the Islamic calendar and move earlier each year, so demand for hotels, buses and flights into Al Najaf International Airport shifts with them. Along the walking routes, volunteer stations offer free food and lodging. Iraqi Airways and Fly Baghdad are the local carriers whose fares teams usually compare. --- ## Ireland residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/ireland-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 36 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 13 (Dublin, Cork, Naas, Mallow, Athlone). Networks seen: 8 (Eir Broadband, Vodafone Ireland, Liberty Global Europe Holding). Median response time: 280 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-IE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Irish shoppers spent years buying from UK websites, and the habit still shows: Amazon opened Amazon.ie only in March 2025, having served Ireland through Amazon.co.uk until then, and Argos closed its Irish stores and website in June 2023. Since Brexit, parcels from Britain can carry customs duty and import VAT, so many UK chains run separate .ie storefronts priced in EUR, while some still show sterling to Irish visitors. Across the border, Northern Ireland uses sterling and UK storefronts, so prices on the same island differ by jurisdiction. Local platforms carry much of the market: DoneDeal for cars, farm machinery and livestock, Adverts.ie for second-hand goods, Daft.ie and MyHome.ie for property and rentals, and Tesco, SuperValu and Dunnes Stores for online grocery. Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats compete in food delivery. RTÉ, The Irish Times, the Irish Independent and TheJournal.ie are the main news publishers, and Dublin-based Ryanair and Aer Lingus price their fares from Irish airports in EUR. Irish is an official language, but commercial storefronts are almost entirely in English. Google dominates search, and google.ie results often mix Irish and UK retailers for the same product, so ranking checks should note which sellers actually deliver to Ireland. Many global technology firms keep their EU headquarters in Dublin, which makes the Data Protection Commission the lead EU regulator for several large platforms. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Location inside Ireland changes more than map results. Many rural homes have no house number or street name, which is why Eircode, the seven-character postcode system in use since 2015, is asked for on many Irish checkouts and delivery quotes. Regional publishers matter for local campaigns: the Irish Examiner, based in Cork, circulates mainly in Munster, and county newspapers carry advertising that national sites do not. In the Gaeltacht areas of Galway, Kerry and Donegal, Irish is the community language, and TG4, the Irish-language television channel, carries its own advertising. Campaign and price checks should name the county they represent. --- ## Israel residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/israel-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 62 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 16 (Tel Aviv, Rishon LeTsiyyon, Jerusalem, Umm el Faḥm, Qiryat Ata). Networks seen: 12 (Bezeq- THE ISRAEL TELECOMMUNICATION, Cellcom Fixed Line Communication L.P, Hot-Net internet services). Median response time: 500 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-IL · Review by: 2026-11-30. Hebrew storefronts read right to left and price in ILS. Checkout pages almost always offer to split a card payment into monthly instalments, known as tashlumim, and the number of interest-free payments is often advertised next to the price. There is no local Amazon storefront, so Amazon.com, AliExpress and Temu compete with domestic retailers on imported goods, and the Friday-to-Saturday weekend changes delivery slots and customer-service hours across much of the market. Arabic and Russian speakers form large audiences that some publishers and retailers serve separately, and Eilat is a VAT-free zone, so prices for shoppers there can differ from the rest of the country. Zap is the long-established price comparison site for electronics and appliances, and KSP and Ivory are the reference retailers for computers and phones. Yad2 covers cars, second-hand goods and rentals, with Madlan alongside it for property, while Wolt and 10bis are the main apps for restaurant delivery and office meal orders. Ynet, Walla and Mako are the high-traffic news and entertainment sites where display and video campaigns run. Google is the dominant search engine, and Hebrew queries produce their own local packs, shopping ads and publisher mix, which differ from English searches for the same product. Bit and PayBox are the payment apps many small sellers accept. Personal data falls under the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, whose Amendment No. 13 took effect in August 2025 and widened the Privacy Protection Authority's enforcement powers. Israel's shopping calendar runs on Hebrew dates, which fall on different Gregorian days each year. The weeks before Rosh Hashanah in September or October and before Passover in spring are the main gifting and home-goods seasons: employers hand out holiday gift cards, often through platforms such as BuyMe, and retailers push kitchenware, appliances and food hampers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have also become major sale dates in Israel, and the VAT rise of January 2025 shows up as a step in most price histories. Sukkot and the July to August school holiday bring the peak for domestic hotels in Eilat and at the Dead Sea, when rates climb well above spring levels. --- ## Italian proxy server URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/italy-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 57 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 28 (Cagliari, Milan, Rome, Naples, Bari). Networks seen: 14 (Wind Tre, TIM, Fastweb). Median response time: 410 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 1.8M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-IT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Italian e-commerce runs in EUR with payment habits of its own: PostePay prepaid cards, the Milan-founded Satispay app and Scalapay instalments appear at many checkouts, and cash on delivery (contrassegno) is still offered, often for a fee. Delivery surcharges for Sicily, Sardinia, Calabria and the smaller islands are common, so the same basket can cost more in Palermo or Cagliari than in Milan. Online grocery from Esselunga covers mainly the north and centre, where its stores are. Amazon.it and eBay.it lead general retail, with Unieuro and MediaWorld for electronics, Trovaprezzi and idealo for price comparison, and Subito for classifieds and used cars. Immobiliare.it and Idealista carry most property listings. Trenitalia and Italo compete on high-speed rail fares between Milan, Rome and Naples, and Vinted leads second-hand clothing. Glovo, Deliveroo and Just Eat compete in food delivery in the larger cities. Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica and Il Sole 24 Ore are among the largest ad-funded publishers. Google dominates search, and local results for the same service query differ sharply between cities such as Rome, Milan and Naples. In South Tyrol, many regional sites run German-language versions alongside Italian ones. The 2018 Dignity Decree bans gambling advertising, so betting brands are absent from Italian ad slots that carry them elsewhere. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Personal Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree 196/2003, amended by Legislative Decree 101/2018), enforced by the Garante. Italy's retail calendar has fixed points. Winter saldi start in early January and summer saldi in early July, with exact dates set region by region, and shops must show the price before and after the discount and the percentage cut. Black Friday has become a major event for Amazon.it and the electronics chains. Around Ferragosto on 15 August many businesses close for holidays, which lengthens delivery times and pushes up coastal hotel and ferry prices. Back-to-school spending follows in September, and the Epiphany holiday on 6 January closes the festive season. Price series for Italy should mark these dates so seasonal cuts are not read as lasting changes. --- ## Jamaica residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/jamaica-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 44 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 6 (Kingston, Portmore, Spanish Town, Bamboo, Moneague). Networks seen: 4 (Digicel Jamaica, FLOW, Cable & Wireless Jamaica). Median response time: 510 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-JM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Jamaican storefronts and search are in English, while Patois dominates radio, social video and comment threads. Prices are in Jamaican dollars (JMD), though hotels, villa rentals and some car and property listings quote US dollars. Much online shopping still means ordering from US retailers through courier services such as Aeropost that give customers a Miami mailing address, so a Jamaican checkout often shows freight and duty estimates rather than local stock. Local payments have also widened: NCB's Lynk wallet carries JAM-DEX, the digital currency the Bank of Jamaica launched in 2022. Local monitoring usually starts with the Jamaica Gleaner and the Jamaica Observer, the two national dailies, and RJR News, which carry much of the domestic display advertising. JamaicaClassifiedOnline is widely used for car and property listings, PriceSmart and Courts are the big-ticket retail names, and the tourism coast from Negril through Montego Bay to Ocho Rios is priced by Sandals, Couples and many independent resorts. Kingston and Montego Bay behave like separate markets: Kingston holds government, finance and most corporate buyers, while Montego Bay leans on tourism and call-centre work. Google dominates search, and local results for Kingston and Montego Bay differ enough that tourism and property rankings need checks from both. Personal data falls under the Data Protection Act, 2020, which took full effect on 1 December 2023 with the Office of the Information Commissioner as regulator. Jamaica has three international airports: Sangster in Montego Bay, the main gateway for north-coast tourists, Norman Manley in Kingston and Ian Fleming near Ocho Rios, so fare checks need the right airport as well as the right dates. On the ground, Knutsford Express runs scheduled coaches between towns on the north and south coasts and also sells parish-to-parish courier delivery with package tracking. Cruise traffic lands at Falmouth, whose port opened in 2011 for the largest ships, as well as at Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. Mid-July brings Reggae Sumfest to Montego Bay and pushes up demand for rooms there. --- ## Japanese proxy server URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/japan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 56 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 25 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 14 (Tokyo, Toyama, Toyonaka, Nagoya, Shizuoka). Networks seen: 12 (BIGLOBE, SoftBank, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS). Median response time: 820 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 3.6M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-JP · Review by: 2026-11-30. Points programmes shape Japanese commerce: each domestic platform runs its own, so what a shopper effectively pays depends on the site and loyalty scheme as much as the list price in yen (JPY). Storefronts and search are overwhelmingly in Japanese, and prices must be displayed including consumption tax, with food taxed at a lower rate than other goods. Checkout goes well beyond cards: konbini payment at convenience stores, PayPay and other QR wallets, mobile carrier billing and cash on delivery all appear. Rakuten Ichiba, Amazon.co.jp and Yahoo Shopping lead general retail, Mercari and Yahoo Auctions dominate second-hand sales, ZOZOTOWN is the main fashion mall and Kakaku.com is the standard price-comparison site. Travel teams follow Rakuten Travel and Jalan, restaurant visibility depends heavily on Tabelog, and property listings run through SUUMO and LIFULL HOME'S. LINE, the country's most used messaging app, sells its own ad placements and belongs to LY Corporation, the same group as Yahoo Japan. Delivery options also vary inside the country: Okinawa and remote islands often carry extra shipping charges or longer delivery times. Google is the main search engine, but Yahoo Japan still draws a large audience; its search runs on Google's technology yet shows its own page layout, news modules and Yahoo ads, so ranking and ad checks should cover both. The Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), with its most recent major amendments in force since April 2022, governs personal data. Japan's shopping calendar has its own fixed points. New Year opens with fukubukuro, sealed lucky bags sold by department stores, fashion brands and online shops, often reserved online in December. Summer ochugen and year-end oseibo are formal gift seasons when department store websites push catalogues of food and drink sets. Valentine's Day and White Day on 14 March drive chocolate sales, and Golden Week in late April and early May and Obon in mid-August are the peak travel weeks, when hotel and flight prices jump. Online, Rakuten's recurring Okaimono Marathon, Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday campaigns reset prices across electronics and daily goods. --- ## Jordan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/jordan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 37 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Amman). Networks seen: 6 (Jordanian mobile phone services, Jordan Data Communications, Al Bahrainia al Urdunia Liltaknia Wa Alitisalat). Median response time: 510 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-JO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Arabic dominates Jordanian storefronts and search, with English common on electronics, travel and banking sites. Prices are in JOD, which divides into 1,000 fils and often appears with three decimals, a format price parsers need to handle. Cash on delivery remains common, but the CliQ instant payment system and the eFAWATEERcom bill payment network have made bank transfers a normal checkout option, and many stores now list them beside cards. Aqaba is a special economic zone with lower sales tax, so some prices there differ from those in Amman. OpenSooq, which now runs classifieds across the Arab world, was founded in Amman and remains the default place in Jordan to list cars, apartments and jobs, with separate city sections for Amman, Irbid, Zarqa and Aqaba. Talabat is the main app for food and grocery delivery, Careem covers rides, and Smart Buy is a common reference for electronics and appliance prices. Roya News, Al Ghad, Ammon News and the English-language Jordan Times are the local publishers where display campaigns and sponsored content appear. Google is the dominant search engine, and Jordanian Arabic queries often return Saudi, Egyptian and Gulf pages beside local ones, so rank checks need a Jordanian vantage point to show which local businesses actually reach the first page. Many users also type Arabic in Latin letters, known as Arabizi, so keyword lists need both scripts. Personal Data Protection Law No. 24 of 2023 took effect in March 2024, with a transition period for existing processing that ended in March 2025. Tourism prices in Jordan depend on who is buying. Entry fees at Petra and other major sites are far lower for Jordanians and residents than for foreign visitors, and the Jordan Pass bundles the tourist visa fee with entry to more than 40 attractions, including Petra, Jerash and Wadi Rum. Royal Jordanian, the national carrier, flies from Queen Alia International Airport near Amman, while King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba serves the Red Sea coast and the southern desert sites. Hotel rates at the Dead Sea and in Aqaba rise on weekends and public holidays, when Jordanian families travel, so rate checks should compare weekday and weekend dates. --- ## Kazakhstan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/kazakhstan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 58 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 14 (Almaty, Astana, Karaganda, Pavlodar, Petropavl). Networks seen: 19 (Kazakhtelecom, Kar-Tel, NLS Kazakhstan). Median response time: 770 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. One super app organises much of Kazakhstan's online retail: Kaspi.kz combines banking, a marketplace, bill payments and Kaspi QR, and its interest-free installment plans lead many retailers to show a monthly price next to the full one. Kazakh is the state language and Kazakh versions keep expanding, but Russian still carries most online retail content. Prices are in tenge (KZT), and delivery options differ sharply between Almaty, Astana and smaller cities. Beyond Kaspi, Wildberries and Ozon run large pickup-point networks, Halyk Market is a bank-backed marketplace, and Technodom and Sulpak are the major electronics chains. OLX.kz covers general classifieds, Kolesa.kz cars and Krisha.kz property, the standard sources for used-car prices and rents in Almaty and Astana. Glovo, Wolt and Yandex Eats compete in delivery, Arbuz.kz sells groceries, and Aviata, Chocotravel and Kaspi Travel handle flight bookings. Tengrinews, Zakon.kz and Kursiv are major publishers for ad checks. Google and Yandex both matter for search, especially for Russian-language queries, so ranking checks should cover both engines. Delivery estimates also stretch for western cities such as Aktau and Atyrau, far from the main warehouses around Almaty and Astana. Most browsing happens on phones, and services such as Kaspi are used almost entirely through their apps. The Law on Personal Data and Their Protection (No. 94-V) of 21 May 2013 governs personal data and requires data on Kazakh citizens to be stored in databases located in Kazakhstan. Distances make air travel central to Kazakhstan's travel pricing. Air Astana and its low-cost arm FlyArystan carry most domestic traffic between Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, Aktau and Atyrau, with SCAT Airlines as the main independent rival. Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the national railway, sells tickets for day and overnight trains on the same corridors, including the Almaty to Astana line. Resorts create their own peaks: Shymbulak above Almaty in the ski season, and Burabay north of Astana and Lake Alakol in the east during summer. Hotel and guesthouse rates in those places follow the season, so resort rate checks should fix the travel dates. --- ## Kenya residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/kenya-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 61 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 57 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Nairobi, Kitengela, Nakuru). Networks seen: 26 (MTN, Safaricom, VIJIJI CONNECT). Median response time: 1020 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Kenyan online shopping is built around M-Pesa. Checkout pages on local stores ask for a Lipa na M-Pesa till or paybill number, or send a payment prompt straight to the buyer's phone, and card forms usually come second; Airtel Money is the other wallet in common use. Prices are in Kenyan shillings (KES). Storefronts, search and news sites work mainly in English, while Swahili, the other official language, shows up in product titles, reviews and social posts, often mixed with Sheng, the Nairobi street slang. Jumia Kenya and Kilimall are the two main general marketplaces, and Jiji carries classifieds for phones, cars, property and jobs. BuyRentKenya lists homes for sale and rent. Food and grocery delivery has been split between Glovo, Uber Eats and Bolt Food since Jumia Food closed in December 2023, and Uber has agreed to buy Glovo's parent company, Delivery Hero, a deal still waiting on regulators. Kenya Airways and its low-cost arm Jambojet sell domestic and regional fares in shillings. The Nation, The Standard, Kenyans.co.ke and Tuko are the largest news publishers online. Google handles almost all search in Kenya. Results for local queries such as phone prices or rentals mix retailer pages, Jiji listings and Kenyan news, and they change with the searcher's location and language, so a ranking check needs to run from a Kenyan connection in both English and Swahili. Personal data falls under the Data Protection Act, 2019, enforced by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC). Travel prices in Kenya come in two tiers. Kenya Wildlife Service park fees are paid online through eCitizen and are set separately for citizens, residents and non-residents, and beach hotels in Diani and Watamu and safari lodges around the Maasai Mara commonly publish resident rates in shillings next to non-resident rates in US dollars. The Madaraka Express train between Nairobi and Mombasa sells seats through its own online booking site, while long-distance coaches compete on the same route. Fare and rate checks for Kenya should run from Kenyan connections and capture both the resident and the non-resident price, since the gap between them is often large. --- ## Kosovo residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/kosovo-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 28 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 9 (Pristina, Glogovac, Dragomac, Srbica, Ferizaj). Networks seen: 9 (TelKos L.L.C, N.t.sh. sky - Net, Telekomi i Kosoves SH.A). Median response time: 430 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-XK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Kosovo uses the euro (EUR) without being part of the eurozone, and most online shopping happens in Albanian, with Serbian also an official language. Cash on delivery remains the usual way to pay for online orders. There is no working country-code domain: .xk is a user-assigned code that has never been added to the internet's root zone, so Kosovan businesses publish on .com, .net or other domains, and local relevance in search comes from language, content and location rather than a national domain. Gjirafa runs Gjirafa50 for electronics and GjirafaMall for general goods; GjirafaMall expanded into Albania and North Macedonia in May 2025. Gjirafa's Orange Week online shopping festival is a price event worth tracking. MerrJep is the main classifieds site for cars, property, jobs and household goods, and also operates in Albania and North Macedonia. Wolt launched food delivery in Pristina in January 2025, starting with central neighbourhoods. Telegrafi, Koha, Gazeta Express and Indeksonline are among the news portals selling display advertising. Google is the main search engine. A large diaspora in Germany and Switzerland shapes demand, with travel and retail peaking in summer when many visit, so fares to Pristina and local prices are worth checking from inside Kosovo as well as from diaspora markets. Personal data falls under Law No. 06/L-082 on Protection of Personal Data, in force since February 2019, which transposes the GDPR and is enforced by the Information and Privacy Agency. Air fares are a core check for Kosovo because so much of the diaspora travels home by plane. Prishtina International Airport Adem Jashari is served by Wizz Air, easyJet, Eurowings, Swiss and Turkish Airlines, and its main routes run to Basel-Mulhouse, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Geneva and Munich. Since 1 January 2024, Kosovo passport holders can visit the Schengen area without a visa for up to 90 days in any 180-day period. Fares on the same route can differ between a booking made from Kosovo and one made from Switzerland or Germany, and many travellers also compare flights from Skopje and Tirana. --- ## Kuwait residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/kuwait-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 57 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 30 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Kuwait City). Networks seen: 4 (Mobile Telecommunications K.S.C.P, Kuwait Telecommunications K.S.C.C, National Mobile Telecommunications K.s.c.p). Median response time: 890 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Talabat was founded in Kuwait in 2004, and delivery apps still shape how the country shops. Prices are in KWD, which divides into 1,000 fils and is shown with three decimals (KWD 4.750), and most local checkouts run on KNET, the national debit network, alongside cards and cash on delivery. Storefronts publish in Arabic and English side by side, because expatriates make up most of the population, and many retailers run separate Arabic and English product pages. Addresses are written as area, block, street and building, and delivery apps set fees and coverage by area, so results for Salmiya can differ from those for Jahra or Ahmadi. Teams tracking the market usually watch Xcite for electronics, Boutiqaat for beauty, noon for general retail, and 4Sale and dubizzle Kuwait for cars, property and second-hand goods. In food delivery, Talabat now faces Keeta, which launched in September 2025 with half-price first orders, so delivery fees and promotions are worth checking often rather than monthly. Google is the main search engine, and Arabic and English queries return different local businesses and ads. Al Qabas, Al Rai and Al Anba lead Arabic news, and Kuwait Times and Arab Times serve English readers. Kuwait has no general data-protection law yet: CITRA's Data Privacy Protection Regulation (Decision No. 26 of 2024) applies to licensed telecom and IT operators, and other sectors rely on the E-Commerce Law No. 20 of 2014. Kuwait's retail calendar has dates of its own. National Day on 25 February and Liberation Day on 26 February bring national-themed promotions, events and restaurant offers. In mid-Ramadan, Gergean nights on the 13th to 15th lift sales of sweets, nuts and gift packaging, and the Ramadan evenings and Eid holidays that follow are peak times for fashion, perfume and electronics. Summer is the other extreme: many families travel abroad, so Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways fares and outbound holiday packages peak while local demand in some categories eases. November then brings the regional White Friday and Yellow Friday sales. --- ## Kyrgyzstan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/kyrgyzstan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 31 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Bishkek, Talas). Networks seen: 10 (Mega-Line, Kyrgyztelecom, AKNET). Median response time: 500 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Russian dominates Kyrgyzstan's small online market, with Kyrgyz versions growing on government, bank and news sites, and prices in som (KGS). In the south, around Osh and Jalal-Abad, Uzbek is also widely spoken. Payments run largely through bank and wallet apps: MBank and the Elsom wallet handle QR payments and transfers, and many shops still take cash on delivery. Much of what people buy online arrives through Wildberries and Ozon, which run pickup points in Bishkek, Osh and other towns. Courier delivery is concentrated in Bishkek; elsewhere, pickup points do most of the work. Lalafo is the main classifieds platform for goods and services, House.kg covers apartments and rentals, and Mashina.kg lists cars, so Bishkek rents and used-car prices are straightforward to follow. Lalafo also runs in other countries, so checks should target its Kyrgyz site, lalafo.kg. Glovo and Yandex Go run delivery and ride-hailing in the capital, and Namba Food is a long-running local delivery service. For publishers, 24.kg, Kaktus.media and AKIpress are widely read news sites carrying local display advertising. Google leads search, but Yandex remains in regular use among Russian speakers, so Russian-language rankings should be checked on both engines, where Kazakh and Russian sites often compete with local pages. Personal data rules moved into the Digital Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, signed on 31 July 2025 and in force since 8 February 2026, which replaced the 2008 Law on Personal Information. Kyrgyzstan's tourism follows Issyk-Kul. From late June to August, the lake's north shore around Cholpon-Ata and Bosteri fills with visitors from Bishkek, Kazakhstan and Russia, and guesthouse, hotel and apartment rates there rise before emptying again in autumn. Karakol, at the eastern end of the lake, adds a winter ski season and summer trekking. Most visitors arrive through Manas International Airport in Bishkek, with Osh airport serving the south and Issyk-Kul International Airport at Tamchy serving the lake. The Bishkek to Osh road crosses high mountain passes, so domestic flights compete with shared taxis and minibuses on that route. --- ## Laos residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/laos-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 53 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 22 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Vientiane). Networks seen: 3 (Lao Telecom Communication, Star Telecom, Lao Communication Technology Sole). Median response time: 970 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online shopping in Laos happens mostly inside social apps rather than on a national marketplace. Sellers post products on Facebook and TikTok, take orders by chat and get paid by bank QR code, most often through the BCEL One app, or in cash when the parcel arrives. Storefront text is in Lao and prices are in kip (LAK), although property and vehicle listings often quote US dollars or Thai baht as well. Lao and Thai are closely related languages, so many Lao readers also follow Thai-language shops, videos and news, and a local seller can end up competing with Thai pages for the same buyer. The platforms worth watching are few, and most of them are concentrated in the capital. foodpanda delivers restaurant food in Vientiane, Pakse and several other towns, and LOCA combines taxis, food orders and its own QR payments in Vientiane and Luang Prabang. OneX sells goods from inside the BCEL One banking app, Yula.la runs classified ads for cars, property and jobs, and FazWaz.la lists homes for sale and rent in Vientiane. The Vientiane Times, the state news agency KPL and the Laotian Times are the usual English-language references for local news. Google is the dominant search engine, but Lao-language web content is limited, so the same query can return Thai or English pages depending on how it is written. Electronic personal data falls under the Law on Electronic Data Protection (No. 25/NA) of 2017. Travel prices are the clearest local benchmark in Laos. Seats on the Laos-China Railway, which links Vientiane, Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang and the northern border town of Boten, are sold through the LCR mobile app and at stations, and popular departures can sell out. A separate line from the Thai side brings trains from Bangkok and Nong Khai into Vientiane. Lao Airlines runs domestic and regional flights, while minivans and buses still serve towns away from the railway. Hotel and guesthouse rates in Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng rise in the cool, dry high season from November to March and are often posted in US dollars. --- ## Latvia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/latvia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 61 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 21 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Riga, Daugavpils, Jūrmala, Preiļi). Networks seen: 8 (SIA Tet, Tele2 SWIPnet, McLaut-Invest). Median response time: 630 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LV · Review by: 2026-11-30. Latvian and Russian run side by side in Latvia's online retail: many shops, classifieds and news sites publish a Russian-language version beside the Latvian one, and search behaviour splits along the same line. Prices are in EUR, adopted in 2014. Parcel lockers from Omniva and DPD are a standard delivery choice, and bank links and cards dominate at checkout. ss.com is the dominant classifieds site for cars, flats, jobs and used goods, in both languages, with city24.lv as a specialist property portal. 220.lv, the sister site of Lithuania's Pigu.lt, is a leading local marketplace, Salidzini.lv compares prices across web shops, and Rimi and Barbora sell groceries online. Wolt and Bolt Food compete in food delivery, and airBaltic, the Riga-based national airline, sells many of the flights out of the country. Delfi, TVNET and LSM.lv, the public broadcaster's news portal, are the main publishers, and each runs a Russian-language edition. Google dominates search in both languages, but Latvian-language and Russian-language queries for the same product surface different shops and publishers, so ranking checks should cover both. Riga accounts for much of the online market, and Russian speakers are concentrated there and in Daugavpils. Listings on ss.com are grouped by region and district, which makes Riga, Jūrmala and regional towns easy to compare separately. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Personal Data Processing Law, in force since July 2018. Latvian checkouts lean on online banking. Bank links send buyers to Swedbank, SEB, Citadele or Luminor to approve a payment, and the bank step is usually confirmed in the bank's own app or with Smart-ID. Pay-later and instalment plans from consumer lenders such as ESTO appear beside cards on electronics and furniture sites, often with the monthly amount shown next to the full price. Many Latvian public and business services also accept eParaksts, the national e-signature, for signing contracts online. Checks of Latvian checkout pages should record which banks and credit options appear, since these differ by shop and by basket value. --- ## Lebanon residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/lebanon-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 62 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 48 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 7 (Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, El Achrafiyé, Fanâr). Networks seen: 20 (TerraNet sal, Wave Net, Energy Bridge). Median response time: 1100 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LB · Review by: 2026-11-30. Arabic, English and French all appear on Lebanese storefronts, often within the same site. Since the 2019 financial crisis much of retail has moved to US dollar pricing, with LBP shown alongside or used for small amounts, so price monitoring has to capture the currency of every listing. Cash on delivery is the default for many online stores, and money-transfer networks such as OMT and Whish Money handle payments and bill settlements that cards would cover elsewhere. The same networks also carry much of the remittance flow from the large Lebanese diaspora. OLX Lebanon, which briefly carried the dubizzle name before a user vote kept the OLX brand, is the main classifieds site for cars, apartments and electronics, and its apartment listings are typically priced in US dollars, as property was before the crisis. Toters, founded in Beirut, is the best-known app for food and grocery delivery. Middle East Airlines, the national carrier, is the reference for fares on routes out of Beirut, the country's only commercial airport. L'Orient-Le Jour in French, An-Nahar and Al Akhbar in Arabic, and the broadcasters LBCI and MTV Lebanon are the publishers where local display campaigns appear. Google is the dominant search engine. Because the same query can be typed in Arabic, English, French or Arabizi, the Latin-script Arabic common in messaging, rank checks need several keyword variants to reflect how Lebanese users actually search. Personal data falls under Law No. 81 of 2018 on Electronic Transactions and Personal Data. Demand in Lebanon is strongly seasonal because many Lebanese living abroad come home in summer and over Christmas and New Year. Fares on routes into Beirut, car rental rates and short-term rentals in the mountains and on the coast climb in those weeks, then ease in spring and autumn. Winter adds a second, local season: chalets near the Mzaar Kfardebian and Faraya ski slopes are priced for December to March. Summer festivals such as Baalbek and Byblos draw visitors in the years they run. For travel and rental research, compare the same dates across seasons rather than month to month. --- ## Lesotho residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/lesotho-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 18 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Maseru). Networks seen: 4 (Econet Telecom Lesotho (PTY), Comnet Pty, Vodacom Lesotho (Pty)). Median response time: 940 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LS · Review by: 2026-11-30. Surrounded entirely by South Africa, Lesotho imports most of its goods from its neighbour, and its online market works the same way. The loti (LSL) is pegged one to one to the South African rand, which also circulates as legal tender, so prices appear in either currency. Sesotho is what nearly everyone speaks, but English, the other official language, carries most websites and search. Takealot, South Africa's largest online store, delivers only inside South Africa, so price and availability checks for Lesotho should show what a visitor in Maseru can actually order rather than what a Johannesburg shopper sees. Mobile money handles everyday payments. M-Pesa from Vodacom Lesotho and EcoCash from Econet Telecom Lesotho, the wallets of the country's two mobile networks, cover transfers, airtime and bill payments, and EcoCash sends money across both networks. Local publishing is small, which makes ad checks easy to scope: the Lesotho Times, the largest weekly, comes out every Thursday and is also distributed in parts of South Africa's Free State, and Public Eye publishes from Maseru. Both run news sites alongside print. Google is the search engine in use, and searches for local services often return South African businesses next to Basotho ones, so ranking checks need connections inside Lesotho. The Data Protection Act, 2011, published as Act No. 5 of 2012, sets rules for processing personal information and provides for a Data Protection Commission. Lesotho's travel market is built around its mountains. Afriski Mountain Resort in the Maluti Mountains runs a ski season in the southern winter, roughly June to August, and sells lift passes and rooms online to visitors, many of them driving in from South Africa. Maliba Lodge in Ts'ehlanyane National Park, Katse Dam and the Sani Pass crossing to KwaZulu-Natal draw much of the rest of the tourist trade, and the Sani Pass route needs a 4x4. Moshoeshoe I International Airport near Maseru connects mainly to Johannesburg, so lodge rates, lift passes and car hire are usually quoted in maloti or rand and compared against South African alternatives. --- ## Libya residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/libya-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 45 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Tripoli, Misratah, Benghazi). Networks seen: 10 (Giga for Telecommunication and Technology, Libyan International for Technology, Aljeel Aljadeed For Technology). Median response time: 760 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Libyan online commerce runs in Arabic and in Libyan dinars (LYD), and much of it happens outside formal web stores: sellers post on Facebook pages and classifieds, buyers message them, and payment is made on delivery. Many shops post their stock and prices only on Facebook. Years of bank cash shortages have pushed the Central Bank of Libya and the banks toward cards and electronic payments, so local services such as Sadad, MobiCash and the national payment gateway run by Moamalat, launched with the central bank in 2020, now appear at some online checkouts, although cash on delivery is still the default. OpenSooq runs a Libya site covering cars, property, jobs and services, and Sooq Libya imports selected products for home delivery to Libyan cities. News readers split between Al Wasat, in Arabic, and English-language outlets such as the Libya Observer and the Libya Herald, which foreign businesses and analysts follow closely. Google is the search engine in use, and queries in the Libyan dialect compete with Egyptian, Tunisian and Gulf Arabic pages, so ranking checks for Libyan businesses need Libyan connections. Libya has no general data-protection law yet; Law No. 6 of 2022 on electronic transactions and Law No. 5 of 2022 on combating cybercrime contain some rules on handling personal data, and the Central Bank of Libya has set data protection criteria that apply only to banks. Air travel out of Libya works differently from its neighbours. Every Libyan airline is on the EU air safety list and cannot fly to Europe, so Libyan Airlines, Afriqiyah Airways, Libyan Wings and Berniq Airways fly to Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey and other Arab and African destinations from Mitiga airport in Tripoli, Benina in Benghazi and Misrata, and travellers heading to Europe connect through Tunis, Istanbul or Cairo. Many people also cross into Tunisia by road at Ras Ajdir. Fares are often sold in dinars through local travel agencies and their Facebook pages, so the price a Libyan buyer sees can differ from international booking sites. --- ## Lithuania residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/lithuania-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 50 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 11 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Vilnius, Kaunas, Visaginas). Networks seen: 4 (Telia Lietuva, UAB Cgates, Tele2 SWIPnet). Median response time: 870 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Lithuanian storefronts run in Lithuanian, with Russian or Polish versions on some retail and classifieds sites, and prices have been in EUR since the country joined the euro in 2015. Parcel lockers from LP Express, Omniva and DPD are a standard delivery choice, and bank-link payments through gateways such as Paysera and Montonio sit beside cards at checkout. airBaltic, Ryanair and Wizz Air sell most flights from Vilnius and Kaunas. Pigu.lt and Varle.lt are the biggest local marketplaces, Senukai covers home and DIY, and Kaina24.lt compares prices across web shops. Skelbiu.lt handles general classifieds, Autoplius.lt used cars and Aruodas.lt property. Autoplius.lt is closely watched because Lithuania is a regional hub for used-car imports and re-export, centred on the Marijampolė car market. Vinted, founded in Vilnius, is the leading second-hand clothing app, Barbora, part of the Maxima group, sells groceries online, and Wolt and Bolt Food cover food delivery. Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda hold most delivery-app coverage, and flat prices on Aruodas.lt differ sharply between them. Delfi, 15min and the public broadcaster's LRT.lt lead news, and Delfi also runs a Russian-language edition. Google dominates search. Lithuanian nouns change their endings by case, so 'Vilnius' also appears as 'Vilniuje' and 'Vilniaus', and many users skip letters such as ą, ė, š and ž when typing; keyword lists need both kinds of variant. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data, in force in its current version since July 2018. Language and location vary more inside Lithuania than its size suggests. Polish is the everyday language for many residents of the Vilnius district and Šalčininkai municipalities around the capital, and Russian is widely spoken in Visaginas, a town built for the former Ignalina nuclear plant. Summer demand moves to the coast: Palanga is the main seaside resort, and Nida on the Curonian Spit, reached by ferry from Klaipėda, sees holiday rental prices climb in July and August. Druskininkai in the south draws spa visitors year-round, so hotel rate checks there follow a different calendar from the coast. --- ## Macau residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/macau-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 5 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 0. Networks seen: 1 (Companhia de Telecomunicacoes de Macau). Median response time: 640 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Macau's online market is small, dense and shaped by visitors as much as by residents. Sites are written in Traditional Chinese, with Cantonese as the everyday spoken language; Portuguese, the second official language, appears on government sites and street signs, and English is common in hospitality. Prices are in patacas (MOP), yet Hong Kong dollars are accepted almost everywhere, so checkout pages may quote either currency. Residents pay by scanning or tapping MPay, the Macau Pass wallet, or their bank apps, and many order everyday goods from Taobao for delivery or pickup in the city because local online retail is thin. Hotel rates are the most closely watched prices. The integrated resorts on the Cotai Strip change room rates by date, with weekends, Chinese public holidays and major events pushing them up, and the same room can be priced differently on the resort's own site, Trip.com, Booking.com and Agoda. TurboJET ferry fares and cross-boundary bus services over the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge are compared in the same way. For daily life, Aomi is the largest food delivery and group-buying platform, while Macao Daily News and the broadcaster TDM are the main local news sources, with Macau Business and Macau Daily Times covering the city in English. Google is the main search engine, and Traditional Chinese queries often return Hong Kong pages alongside Macau ones, so ranking checks need a Macau vantage point. Personal data falls under the Personal Data Protection Act (Law No. 8/2005). Macau is a free port and levies no VAT or general sales tax, so the shelf price of imported cosmetics, electronics and health products is usually the final price, and these categories draw buyers from across the border. Spending also flows the other way: many residents cross into Zhuhai and the Hengqin cooperation zone, where Macau residents can now live and work, for dining, groceries and services priced in yuan on mainland apps. A comparison that covers Macau, Zhuhai and Hong Kong on the same day explains most of the price gaps local shoppers notice, and it needs separate checks from each side because sites switch currency and assortment at the border. --- ## Madagascar residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/madagascar-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 22 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Antananarivo, Ivato). Networks seen: 3 (Starlink, Orange Madagascar, Telecom Malagasy). Median response time: 940 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Malagasy is the language most people speak and post in, but French still carries most websites, news and business communication, so a storefront or news check in Madagascar usually means French pages with Malagasy product names and comments. Prices are in ariary (MGA). Cards are rare; buyers pay with mobile money, led by MVola from the operator Yas (formerly Telma), which handles merchant QR payments and bills, with Orange Money and Airtel Money as the alternatives. Many shops in Antananarivo sell through Facebook pages and arrange delivery and payment by message. Local publishers are where most ad checks start. L'Express de Madagascar, Midi Madagasikara and Newsmada publish daily, 2424.mg covers news as it happens, and Moov, the Telma group's news and lifestyle portal, also lists pharmacies on duty and exchange rates. Madagascar Airlines, the national carrier, sells domestic and regional flights, which matter in a large island where road travel between regions is slow. Google is the search engine in practical use, and French queries surface Malagasy pages alongside results from France, Reunion and francophone Africa, so ranking checks need connections in Madagascar. Personal data is covered by Law No. 2014-038 on the protection of personal data, with an implementing decree adopted in 2023. Tourism prices in Madagascar are often quoted in euros. Beach hotels on Nosy Be, the main resort island in the north-west, and on Île Sainte-Marie (Nosy Boraha) off the east coast, where humpback whales arrive during the southern winter to breed, commonly publish rates in euros for foreign guests, while small local guesthouses price in ariary. The Avenue of the Baobabs near Morondava and Isalo National Park in the south are fixtures of overland tours, which depend on long road journeys between regions. International flights land at Ivato airport in Antananarivo, with direct services from Paris, Reunion and Mauritius, so hotel and fare checks mix euro and ariary prices. --- ## Malawi residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/malawi-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 37 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 10 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Lilongwe, Blantyre). Networks seen: 3 (Airtel Malawi, TELEKOM NETWORKS MALAWI, BENGOL.NET). Median response time: 1950 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Malawians read the web in English, the language of banks, ministries and newspapers, but talk, post and listen to the radio in Chichewa, which dominates the centre and south; around Mzuzu in the north, Tumbuka is more common. Money is the kwacha (MWK). Few people pay online by card: transfers go through Airtel Money or TNM Mpamba, run by Airtel Malawi and TNM, the two mobile operators, or through bank apps. No national marketplace has taken hold, so traders in Lilongwe and Blantyre trade through Facebook pages, Marketplace posts or WhatsApp groups and arrange delivery in the chat. Five outlets shape Malawian ad checks: Nyasa Times; Nation Online from Nation Publications, which also prints The Nation and Weekend Nation; Malawi24; Times 360 from the Times Group, which also runs Times Radio and Times TV; and Zodiak Online, the website of the Lilongwe-based Zodiak Broadcasting Station, which streams its radio and television channels. Their display slots are bought by advertisers who want readers inside Malawi. Google handles search, and English keywords typed in Lilongwe compete with Zambian, South African and global pages, so rankings read from abroad understate local firms. Malawi passed its Data Protection Act 2024; since 3 June 2024 it has made MACRA, the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority that also licenses the mobile networks, the data protection regulator, and it has taken over the data rules once found in the Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act. It reaches foreign organisations that sell to or monitor people in Malawi, and controllers of significant importance must register. Kwacha price tags can change overnight. The Reserve Bank of Malawi cut the currency's value by 25% in May 2022 and by 44% in November 2023, and sellers of phones, electronics and vehicles re-quoted soon after each move. Scarce foreign exchange adds pressure, because importers unable to buy dollars at the official rate pass that cost on. Price series for Malawi need frequent collection with the official kwacha rate noted beside each date, so a currency-driven jump is not read as a sale or a shortage. --- ## Malaysia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/malaysia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 69 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 15 (Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Malacca, Puchong, Shah Alam). Networks seen: 5 (TM TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, Binariang Berhad, TIME dotCom Berhad No. 14). Median response time: 880 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Malaysian storefronts switch between Malay and English, and many sellers add Chinese or Tamil for specific audiences, so one product can carry several listing titles. Chinese-language pages in Malaysia use simplified characters, unlike those in Taiwan or Hong Kong. Prices are in ringgit (MYR). Online checkout leans on FPX bank transfers, DuitNow QR and e-wallets such as Touch 'n Go eWallet, GrabPay and ShopeePay, with cash on delivery still offered on marketplaces. Shipping fees, delivery times and promotions often differ between Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak on Borneo, where some bulky items are excluded or cost far more to send. Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop are the main marketplaces, and their double-date sales such as 11.11 and 12.12 reset prices across whole categories. Official brand stores on Shopee Mall and LazMall often price differently from third-party sellers of the same item. Mudah.my is the main classifieds site for used cars, phones and rentals, Carlist.my focuses on vehicles, and PropertyGuru and iProperty compete on property listings. GrabFood and foodpanda lead food delivery. For publisher ads, The Star, Malaysiakini, Berita Harian and Sin Chew Daily reach the English, Malay and Chinese-reading audiences, each with different advertisers and formats. Google dominates search, and Malay and English queries for the same item return different result sets and ads, with Chinese-language searches adding a third layer. The Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (Act 709), amended by the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024, governs commercial use of personal data. Malaysia's festive calendar moves prices as much as the marketplace mega-sales do. Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Chinese New Year and Deepavali each bring weeks of themed promotions on clothing, food hampers and home goods, and during Ramadan food delivery demand shifts towards the evening breaking of the fast. The balik kampung rush before each festival pushes up express bus and flight fares, especially between the peninsula and Sabah and Sarawak, where AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines are the main carriers. Sabah's Kaamatan harvest festival in May and Sarawak's Gawai Dayak on 1 June add regional peaks of their own, with local promotions that the Klang Valley rarely sees. --- ## Maldives residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/maldives-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 5 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Kulhudhuffushi, Malé). Networks seen: 3 (Ooredoo Maldives, DHIVEHI RAAJJEYGE GULHUN, SatLink). Median response time: 460 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MV · Review by: 2026-11-30. Two markets share the Maldives' web traffic: residents who shop and read in Dhivehi, written in Thaana script, and tourists who book resorts in English. Local prices are in rufiyaa (MVR), but resorts, liveaboards and seaplane transfers are sold in US dollars. A shortage of dollars shapes online spending. Bank of Maldives caps what customers can spend abroad with rufiyaa cards and sets monthly allocations for foreign shopping, travel and subscription sites, so a foreign checkout can fail for a resident even when the page loads. Local payments run through BML's MobilePay app and payment gateway, Dhiraagu Pay and Ooredoo m-Faisaa. Resort and guesthouse rates are what most outside teams watch. Resort prices differ between direct booking engines, Booking.com, Agoda and Expedia, and guesthouses on local islands such as Maafushi publish their own rates and packages. Inside Greater Malé, food and grocery apps are local: Gaadiya combines rides and deliveries across several atolls, eeezap and Foodies deliver from restaurants, and the news outlet Avas runs its own food delivery app. Sun, Mihaaru, Avas and Edition.mv are the main news sites carrying local display advertising. Google is the dominant search engine, and Dhivehi queries return far fewer pages than English ones, so local results often come from news sites. The Maldives had no general data-protection law in force when the government's Personal Data Protection Bill went to the People's Majlis in May 2026. Beyond Greater Malé, the Maldives is a chain of atolls linked by boat and plane, so delivery and travel costs depend on distance from the capital. Malé and Hulhumalé, next to Velana International Airport, have the densest delivery coverage, while Addu City in the far south and other atolls rely on cargo boats and domestic flights. Domestic airlines such as Maldivian and Manta Air link Malé with regional airports including Gan in Addu, and public ferries cost far less than private speedboats. Resort rates are usually quoted before service charge, Tourism GST and a per-night green tax, so the headline price and the final total can differ widely between booking sites. --- ## Mali residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/mali-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 43 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 26 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Bamako, Ségou). Networks seen: 4 (Orange Mali, Society of Mali's Telecommunications (SOTELMA), AFRIBONE MALI). Median response time: 860 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ML · Review by: 2026-11-30. Bamako's online trade mostly runs in French, even though Mali's 2023 constitution demoted French to a working language and raised thirteen national languages, Bambara among them, to official status. Bambara is what buyers speak with sellers and hear on the radio, so a listing posted in French is often haggled over in Bamanankan. Money is the XOF franc issued by the BCEAO, which Mali kept after quitting ECOWAS in January 2025 alongside Burkina Faso and Niger. Orange Money, opened through Orange's Max it app, and Moov Africa Malitel's Moov Money are the usual ways to pay, and many Bamako couriers collect cash when a parcel arrives. Unlike Dakar and Abidjan, Bamako has no Jumia storefront, so the visible marketplace is CoinAfrique's Malian listings, where phones, motorbikes, cars, plots of land and furniture are posted mostly from the capital, plus Facebook shops and WhatsApp catalogues kept by market traders. For news and display inventory, Maliweb and Malijet carry the day's Malian headlines, and Studio Tamani, a Fondation Hirondelle project, reports in French, Bambara, Songhay, Peulh and Tamasheq. Google handles search. A French query typed in Bamako competes against pages from Dakar, Abidjan and Paris, so a ranking read taken outside Mali says little about where Malian firms actually sit. Mali's personal data statute, Law No. 2013-015, adopted in May 2013 and revised in 2017, makes consent the default before details are gathered or passed on, allows limited exceptions, and leaves enforcement to the APDP, the regulator it set up. Household spending peaks around Tabaski, as Eid al-Adha is called across the Sahel: rams, new clothes and food are bought in the weeks before, when relatives working in Abidjan or France send extra money home. Ramadan and the feast that closes it give a second surge, and Maouloud draws large crowds in Bamako and Timbuktu. Exercise books and uniforms sell when classes resume in the autumn. Asking prices on CoinAfrique and in Facebook shops follow this calendar, so a fair comparison sets one Tabaski season against the previous one. --- ## Malta residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/malta-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 62 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 12 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 8 (Msida, San Gwann, Birkirkara, Sliema, Gzira). Networks seen: 3 (Epic Communications, GO p.l.c, Melita). Median response time: 690 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Maltese is the national language, but English carries most of Malta's online commerce: storefronts, search queries and ad copy are usually in English, with Maltese more common in news, radio and local brand campaigns. Prices are in euros (EUR). The domestic retail base is small, so Maltese shoppers routinely order from stores elsewhere in the EU, and whether a product ships to Malta, what delivery costs and how UK parcels have been taxed since Brexit all change the checkout a visitor from Malta sees. Local monitoring usually starts with Maltapark, the country's main classifieds site for goods and used cars, and Scan for electronics. Property moves fast and is tracked on the listings of agencies such as Frank Salt, RE/MAX Malta and Dhalia. Wolt covers food and grocery delivery. Display advertising runs on Times of Malta, MaltaToday, The Malta Independent and Lovin Malta. For travel, KM Malta Airlines replaced Air Malta as the national carrier in March 2024, Ryanair's Malta Air subsidiary prices many routes from Malta International Airport, and Gozo Channel runs the ferry to Gozo. Google dominates search. Because Maltese searches are mostly in English, local .com.mt and .mt sites compete for the same queries as British and Irish pages, so a ranking check from Malta shows which local businesses actually surface for a Maltese searcher. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Data Protection Act (Chapter 586 of the Laws of Malta), enacted in 2018. Travel pricing in Malta includes a sea leg that most EU markets lack. Virtu Ferries runs catamarans from Valletta to Pozzallo in Sicily almost daily all year, so fare checks for Sicily compare flights with the crossing, and its fast ferry from Valletta to Mġarr competes with the car ferry for Gozo day trips. Accommodation splits the same way: hotels and apartments in St Julian's, Sliema and Valletta take most city-break demand, while Gozo's converted farmhouses sell as a separate rural product with their own seasonal rates. Summer is the peak for both, so hotel and ferry checks should be timed to the season being studied. --- ## Martinique residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/martinique-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 7 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Le Lamentin, Fort-de-France). Networks seen: 3 (Orange, Outremer Telecom, Canal + Telecom). Median response time: 520 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MQ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Martinican shoppers buy in French and pay in euros (EUR), but shelf prices are shaped by shipping from mainland France, the octroi de mer on imports and a lower VAT rate than in Paris. Food prices became the island's main public issue in 2024, when protests over the gap with the mainland began in September and put supermarket pricing under close scrutiny. The bouclier qualité-prix, a basket of everyday products whose price the prefect sets each year after negotiation under a 2012 law, gives price trackers a public benchmark. Retail is concentrated. Groupe Bernard Hayot (GBH) runs the island's Carrefour hypermarkets as well as Decathlon and Mr.Bricolage stores, and much of the big-box shopping sits in Le Lamentin, near Martinique Aimé Césaire airport, and in Fort-de-France. Teams monitoring the island follow leboncoin's Martinique listings for cars and rentals, France-Antilles Martinique and Martinique la 1ère for news and display advertising, and RCI for radio-led campaigns. Fares to Paris on Air Caraïbes, Corsair and Air France are the other large pricing category, together with villa and hotel rates in Les Trois-Îlets and Sainte-Anne in the south. Almost everyone speaks Martinican Creole as well as French, and it appears in social content more than in storefronts. Google in French is the main search engine, and map packs follow the commune, so results in Fort-de-France and Le Robert differ from a mainland search. Since 2015 a single Collectivité territoriale de Martinique has replaced the department and region, but data protection works as in the rest of France, under the GDPR and the Loi Informatique et Libertés of 1978. Fares to Paris are only part of Martinique's travel pricing. From Martinique Aimé Césaire airport, Air Canada flies to Montreal all year and adds seasonal Quebec City and Toronto flights, Air Transat serves Montreal and Quebec City, and American Airlines flies to Miami, so North American fares and packages are a separate check. Regional hops run on Caribbean Airlines, Winair and Sunrise Airways, and Air France links the island with Cayenne. By sea, FRS Express des Îles connects Martinique with Guadeloupe, Dominica and Saint Lucia. Compare these fares from Fort-de-France as well as from the other end of the route, because the same trip is marketed to both. --- ## Mauritania residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/mauritania-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 45 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Nouakchott). Networks seen: 3 (Mauritanian Telecommunication, RIMATEL, Unknown). Median response time: 630 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Two languages share Mauritania's web: Arabic, including the local Hassaniya dialect, leads in news and social media, and French remains common in business, banking and part of the press. Pulaar, Soninke and Wolof are national languages too, spoken mainly in the south. Prices are in the ouguiya (MRU), redenominated in 2018 when one new ouguiya replaced ten old ones, which is why listings still label prices as new ouguiya. Card payments are rare, and mobile wallets here are run by banks: Bankily, from Banque Populaire de Mauritanie, is one of them, and it became interoperable with other wallets in 2024. There is no national online marketplace, so classifieds and news sites carry most of what teams monitor. Voursa, running since 2010, lists cars, electronics, property, fashion and furniture, mostly in Arabic with some French, and sellers are reached by WhatsApp. Among publishers, Cridem is a French-language portal, while Alakhbar and Sahara Medias are major Arabic news sites. Google is the search engine in use. Arabic and French queries return separate sets of Mauritanian pages, and Arabic results also pull in Moroccan and Gulf sites, so ranking checks should cover both languages from Mauritanian connections. Personal data falls under Law No. 2017-020 of 22 July 2017 on the protection of personal data, supervised by the Autorité de protection des données à caractère personnel (APD). Nouakchott, the capital, is home to most of Mauritania's online sellers and listings, but Nouadhibou, the second city, runs on different business. It is the country's main fishing port and the end of its only railway, which carries iron ore about 700 km from the mines near Zouérat and Fdérik. Atar and the Adrar, with the old caravan towns of Chinguetti and Ouadane, are the main tourist destinations, while the Senegal River valley around Rosso and Kaédi faces south toward Senegal. Searches for services, property and vehicles return different local results in each of these places, so checks should set the city rather than treat the country as one market. --- ## Mauritius residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/mauritius-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 62 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 13 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 5 (Quatre Bornes, Ebene CyberCity, Coquinbourg, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Port Louis). Networks seen: 3 (Mauritius Telecom, Liquid Telecommunications, Mahanagar Telephone (Mauritius)). Median response time: 1090 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MU · Review by: 2026-11-30. Mauritian websites switch between English and French: government, banking and much of retail use English, most newspapers publish in French, and Kreol Morisien is the language most people speak and use on social media. Prices are in Mauritian rupees (MUR). Payment has moved quickly onto phones. MCB Juice, the mobile banking app of the Mauritius Commercial Bank, and QR payments through MauCAS, the Bank of Mauritius instant payment switch, sit next to card options on local checkout pages. Large retail chains lead online selling. Courts Mammouth, the biggest non-food retailer, sells furniture, appliances and electronics online, with outlets on Rodrigues as well as the main island, and Galaxy sells electronics and home appliances from its store network and website. Courts Mammouth also advertises instalment plans next to cash prices. Lexpress.mu from La Sentinelle, Le Défi Media and Le Mauricien are the main news publishers and carry local display advertising in French; Le Défi Media Group also runs the station Radio Plus. Air Mauritius sells fares from the island to Europe, Asia and Africa. Google is the search engine in practical use, and French and English queries for the same product or service return different local pages, so ranking checks should cover both languages from Mauritian connections. Personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act 2017, enforced by the Data Protection Office. The Mauritian retail calendar follows several faiths at once. Thaipoosam Cavadee, Maha Shivaratri, the Chinese Spring Festival, Ganesh Chaturthi, Divali, Eid ul-Fitr and Christmas are all public holidays, and each brings its own promotions on clothing, food, sweets and home goods. December is the biggest month, because employers pay a statutory end-of-year bonus before Christmas and the new school year starts in January, so electronics, furniture and back-to-school promotions overlap. Price trackers following Courts Mammouth or Galaxy should plan around these festival cycles as well as the December peak, rather than looking for a single Black Friday-style event. --- ## Mayotte residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/mayotte-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 8 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Mamoudzou, Dembeni). Networks seen: 4 (Starlink, STOI Internet, Orange). Median response time: 1280 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-YT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Shopping, payment and search in Mayotte follow the French system, with rules of their own. French is the language of every storefront and official site, while most residents speak Shimaore or Kibushi at home, which shows up in local radio and social video rather than in online stores. Prices are in euros (EUR), yet French VAT does not apply in Mayotte, unlike La Réunion, so a product page built for the mainland or Réunion can show the wrong tax. Imports pay the octroi de mer instead, a local duty that has applied since Mayotte became an EU outermost region in 2014. Many mainland retailers do not deliver to the island, or charge heavily for it, so residents often use forwarding addresses in mainland France, and checking which sites accept a Mayotte postcode (976) is a useful test. For news and advertising, the main outlets are Mayotte la 1ère from France Télévisions, Mayotte Hebdo, Le Journal de Mayotte and Kwezi. Travel pricing is concentrated on a few carriers: Air Austral flies to Paris and La Réunion, and Ewa Air covers the Comoros and Madagascar, so fares from Dzaoudzi–Pamandzi airport on Petite-Terre are worth tracking over time, especially since Cyclone Chido hit the island in December 2024. Because few retailers are based on the island, French-language local queries on Google often return mainland and Réunion businesses instead. As part of France and the EU, Mayotte applies the GDPR alongside France's Loi Informatique et Libertés of 1978, supervised by the CNIL. The island's geography splits its market. Grande-Terre holds Mamoudzou, the economic capital, with most shops, offices and delivery points, while Petite-Terre holds Dzaoudzi, Pamandzi and the airport, linked to Mamoudzou by a barge across the lagoon, so travel and delivery times between the two depend on the crossing. Villages in the north and south of Grande-Terre are farther from Mamoudzou's shops and have fewer retail options. Incomes also differ from the mainland: Mayotte has its own minimum wage (SMIC), set below the national rate, which matters when comparing basket prices, promotions and product ranges with mainland France or La Réunion. --- ## Mexico residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/mexico-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 70 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 44 (Benito Juarez, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Gustavo Adolfo Madero, Iztapalapa). Networks seen: 15 (UNINET, TOTAL PLAY TELECOMUNICACIONES, Mega Cable). Median response time: 740 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 3.9M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MX · Review by: 2026-11-30. Mexican e-commerce is shaped by how people pay. Many buyers still pay in cash at OXXO convenience stores or by SPEI bank transfer, and card checkouts lead with meses sin intereses, interest-free monthly instalments whose terms vary by issuing bank. Prices are in pesos (MXN), and storefronts and search use Mexican Spanish. Two national sale events, Hot Sale in late spring and El Buen Fin on the weekend before Revolution Day in November, reset prices and promotions across retail at the same time. Mercado Libre and Amazon.com.mx are the largest marketplaces, with Walmart and its Bodega Aurrera chain, Liverpool, Coppel and Elektra as the main retail sites, and Shein and Temu competing on low-priced imports. Food delivery is split between Rappi, DiDi Food and Uber Eats, property search runs through Inmuebles24, and airfare checks cover Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeroméxico. Delivery promises and stock often change between Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, so a check from one metro area does not describe the rest of the country. Google is the dominant search engine, and local packs and shopping ads differ by metro area. Personal data held by companies falls under the Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties, replaced by a new version published on 20 March 2025 that moved oversight from the dissolved INAI to the Secretariat of Anti-Corruption and Good Government. The Yucatán Peninsula works as a separate market. Cancún International is Mexico's second-busiest airport and the busiest in Latin America for international passengers, and hotels in Cancún, Playa del Carmen and Tulum often quote in US dollars as well as pesos. The Tren Maya, which opened its first section in December 2023 and its full route through Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Chiapas in December 2024, sets lower fares for local residents than for tourists on the same trains, so a fare check has to state which price it captured. ADO buses remain the main alternative on the same corridors. --- ## Moldova residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/moldova-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 51 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 11 (Chisinau, Varniţa, Bălţi, Tiraspol, Beşghioz). Networks seen: 9 (Moldtelecom, INTERDNESTRKOM, StarNet Solutii). Median response time: 400 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MD · Review by: 2026-11-30. Moldovan online shops usually run in Romanian and Russian side by side, and many users switch between the two, so product names, search queries and ad copy exist in both languages. Prices are in Moldovan lei (MDL). Cash on delivery remains widely offered beside cards issued by local banks such as maib and Moldindconbank. Chisinau accounts for much of the online demand, and stock and delivery times for Balti, the second city, and smaller towns often differ. 999.md dominates classifieds for cars, property, jobs and second-hand goods, with Makler.md as a smaller rival. Electronics and appliance retail is concentrated in chains such as Darwin, Maximum and Enter, and Price.md compares prices across shops in Chisinau and nationwide. Glovo covers food and grocery delivery in the capital, and Orange Moldova and Moldcell, the two main mobile operators, sell phones and plans online. Point.md, NewsMaker and TV8 are widely read news sites, several of them publishing in both languages. Google is the main search engine, but Romanian-language and Russian-language queries for the same product lead to different sets of shops and publishers, so rankings need checking in both. As an EU candidate, Moldova has been aligning its consumer and data rules with EU law. Personal data falls under Law No. 195/2024 on personal data protection, which closely follows the GDPR and replaced Law No. 133/2011 when it became applicable on 23 August 2026. Moldova's regions differ in language and currency. In the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia, centred on Comrat, Russian is the main language of everyday commerce alongside Gagauz, so Russian-language pages matter more there than in the capital. The Transnistrian region on the left bank of the Dniester uses its own Transnistrian ruble, convertible only inside the region, so local prices there are not quoted in MDL. Wine tourism has its own booking pages and calendar: the cellars of Cricova and Mileștii Mici, whose collection holds a Guinness record as the world's largest, and the Purcari estate draw visitors, and National Wine Day fills Chisinau in early October. --- ## Morocco residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/morocco-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 67 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 16 (Casablanca, Marrakesh, Agadir, Rabat, Tangier). Networks seen: 3 (Office National des Postes et Telecommunications ONPT (Maroc Telecom) / IAM, Wana Corporate, MEDITELECOM). Median response time: 580 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Moroccan shoppers read storefronts in French or Arabic but search and post in Darija, the Moroccan Arabic dialect, which they write either in Arabic script or in Latin letters with numbers standing in for some sounds. Amazigh (Tamazight) has been an official language since 2011 but rarely appears in e-commerce. Prices are in dirhams (MAD). Cash on delivery is still how most online orders are paid, so checkout pages lead with it, and card payments go through the CMI interbank gateway. Jumia is the main general marketplace and Avito.ma the classifieds site for cars, phones, furniture and property. Marjane Mall and Electroplanet extend their store chains online, Mubawab lists property for sale and rent, and Moteur.ma covers new and used cars. Glovo delivers food and groceries in Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech and the other main cities. Hespress, in Arabic, and Le360, in French and Arabic, are among the most-read news sites, and ONCF, including its Al Boraq high-speed trains, and Royal Air Maroc both sell tickets online in dirhams. Google dominates search. The same query written in French, Modern Standard Arabic or Darija returns different result sets, and French queries also compete with pages from France, so ranking checks should cover all three languages from Moroccan connections. Personal data is governed by Law No. 09-08 of 2009 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, overseen by the Commission Nationale de contrôle de la protection des Données à caractère Personnel (CNDP). Summer reshapes Moroccan travel prices. Under Operation Marhaba, and Spain's matching Operación Paso del Estrecho, millions of Moroccans living in Europe cross the Strait of Gibraltar each summer and again at Christmas, mostly by ferry from Algeciras and Tarifa to Tanger Med and Tanger Ville, so ferry fares, car hire and coastal hotel rates climb in July and August. Inside the country, CTM sells intercity coach tickets online for routes across Morocco, and Supratours, the coach arm of ONCF, links cities the trains do not reach. Teams comparing fares should capture both the Moroccan and the Spanish side of the same crossing. --- ## Mozambique residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/mozambique-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 56 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 33 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Maputo, Beira, Nampula, Quelimane). Networks seen: 4 (Starlink, Comunicacoes Multimedia, Moçambique Telecom). Median response time: 990 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Mozambique's web is in Portuguese, which gives it a search problem other southern African markets do not have: a query typed in Maputo competes with pages from Brazil and Portugal, so Mozambican businesses and publishers only show their real rankings on Mozambican connections. Emakhuwa, Xichangana and other languages are widely spoken but have little web content. Prices are in meticais (MZN). Most people pay by phone rather than card, using M-Pesa from Vodacom Moçambique, e-Mola from Movitel or mKesh from Tmcel, and cash still settles much of everyday retail. No national online marketplace dominates, so much selling runs through Facebook pages, Facebook Marketplace and WhatsApp groups in Maputo, Matola, Beira and Nampula, with delivery and mobile-money payment arranged by message. For ad and content checks, the main publishers are O País, the daily Notícias and the online outlet Carta de Moçambique. The national airline LAM, which now presents itself as AirMozambique, sells domestic fares between Maputo, Beira, Nampula and Pemba. Google is the search engine in use. Mozambique had no general data-protection law in force when this guide was written: in March 2026 the Council of Ministers approved a personal data protection bill, which would create a national data protection authority, and sent it to the Assembleia da República. Drafted by the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (INTIC), the bill draws on the EU GDPR, Council of Europe Convention 108+ and the African Union's Malabo Convention. Mozambique stretches along more than 2,000 km of coast, and its regions behave like separate markets. Maputo and Matola in the far south sit close to the South African border and trade heavily with South Africa; Beira in the centre is the port for the corridor to Zimbabwe; Tete in the Zambezi valley is a coal-mining centre; and Nampula is the largest city in the north. The Inhambane coast, with Tofo and Vilankulo and the Bazaruto Archipelago offshore, is a main beach tourism area. Local results for shops, property and services differ between these cities, so checks should set the city rather than just the country. --- ## Myanmar residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/myanmar-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 18 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 16 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Yangon, Mandalay). Networks seen: 7 (Myanmar Country, Frontiir, HORIZON TELECOM INTERNATIONAL). Median response time: 1090 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Commerce in Myanmar runs largely through social media and chat. Sellers post on Facebook and take orders over Messenger, Viber or Telegram, even though Facebook has been blocked since 2021 and many users reach it through VPNs, whose use the 2025 Cybersecurity Law now regulates. Text is in Burmese, and although the country officially moved from the Zawgyi font encoding to Unicode in 2019, older pages and ads still use Zawgyi, which garbles collected text and breaks keyword matching. Prices are in kyat (MMK); customers pay cash on delivery or through the KBZPay and WavePay wallets, which the central bank's MMQR code standard linked together in 2025. The platform map has narrowed. Shop.com.mm, the Daraz-run marketplace, stopped taking orders in April 2026, leaving brand pages and social sellers as the main online storefronts. Import restrictions mean prices for electronics and imported groceries can change quickly. In Yangon, GrabFood and foodpanda deliver restaurant meals and groceries, and Grab also books rides. Domestic news sites such as Eleven Media carry local display advertising, often alongside Burmese-language pages on Facebook. Mobile internet has been cut in many conflict-affected townships, so online activity and delivery coverage differ sharply between Yangon, Mandalay and the rest of the country. Google is the dominant search engine, and Burmese queries typed in Unicode match poorly with pages still published in Zawgyi. Myanmar has no general data-protection law. Prices in Myanmar need careful parsing. Burmese-language pages often write numbers in Burmese digits rather than 0 to 9, and large amounts for cars, land and flats are usually quoted in lakhs, locally called thein, where one lakh equals 100,000 kyat. Imported goods tend to follow the market exchange rate rather than the central bank's official reference rate, and the gap between the two can be wide, so the same phone may carry very different kyat prices in listings posted a few weeks apart. Fuel and power shortages also affect delivery times and shop opening hours, which makes timestamps essential when comparing prices. --- ## Namibia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/namibia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 58 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 4 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Windhoek). Networks seen: 3 (Telecom Namibia, Mobile Telecommunications, Paratus Telecommunications). Median response time: 1200 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Namibia shops in two currencies: the Namibian dollar (NAD) is pegged one to one to the South African rand, and the rand is legal tender alongside it, so prices and payment pages can use either. English is the only official language and the language of nearly all storefronts, but Afrikaans, German and Oshiwambo each have their own audiences, and Windhoek still supports a German-language daily. Takealot, South Africa's largest online store, delivers only inside South Africa, so Namibians buy instead from local branches of South African chains and from Namibian sellers. Local media is split by language. The Namibian, New Era and Namibian Sun publish in English, Republikein in Afrikaans and the Allgemeine Zeitung in German, and each carries its own local advertising. MyProperty lists homes for sale and rent in Namibian dollars across Khomas, Erongo and Oshana. FNB eWallet lets people send money to a phone number without the recipient needing a bank account. Tourism is a large part of what Namibia sells online: lodge groups such as Gondwana Collection, which runs about 50 lodges and camps, sell stays directly online. Google is the search engine people use, and Afrikaans or German queries return a different set of Namibian and South African pages from English ones. Namibia has no general data-protection law in force yet. Self-drive tourism shapes Namibian travel prices. Many visitors hire a 4x4, often fitted with rooftop tents, and drive between Etosha, Sossusvlei, Swakopmund and the Fish River Canyon, so car-hire rates and lodge availability are the prices worth comparing. Namibia Wildlife Resorts, the state-owned company, runs lodges and camps inside the national parks, including Halali and Onkoshi in Etosha, Dolomite Resort in the park's west and Sossus Dune Lodge near the dunes, while private lodges sit just outside the park gates. Rates are quoted in Namibian dollars, and the dry winter months are high season, when availability tightens and prices rise. --- ## Nepal residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/nepal-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 61 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 6 (Kathmandu, Butwal, Bhadrapur, Janakpur Dham, Patan). Networks seen: 18 (WorldLink Communications, C G Communications, DISH MEDIA NETWORK). Median response time: 880 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NP · Review by: 2026-11-30. Search and chat in Nepal mix Devanagari Nepali, Nepali typed in Latin letters and English, and product titles on local stores follow the same pattern. Prices are in Nepalese rupees (NPR), which is pegged to the Indian rupee, so comparisons with Indian sites and border markets are routine. Payment runs through wallets and QR codes, above all eSewa, Khalti and Fonepay, alongside cash on delivery. Delivery coverage is strongest in the Kathmandu Valley and Pokhara; hill and mountain districts often wait days longer, and some services do not reach them at all. Daraz Nepal is the largest general marketplace, and its sale events move prices for electronics and fashion, with the Dashain and Tihar festival season bringing the biggest campaigns of the year. HamroBazar is the usual classifieds site for used phones, motorbikes and furniture. Foodmandu has delivered restaurant food in the Kathmandu Valley since 2010, while Pathao offers rides and food delivery in several cities. Domestic airlines such as Buddha Air and Yeti Airlines charge foreign passengers separate US dollar fares, so fare checks depend on the nationality selected as well as the location. News portals such as Onlinekhabar, Setopati and Kantipur's ekantipur are major ad-supported sites and rank strongly for news and current-affairs searches. Google is the dominant search engine, and results for Devanagari queries differ from those for the same words typed in Latin script. Personal information is covered by the Privacy Act, 2075 (2018), often called the Individual Privacy Act, and the E-commerce Act, 2025 (2081) adds privacy duties for online sellers. Nepali sites follow their own calendar and clock. Dates are usually given in Bikram Sambat, the official calendar, which runs 56 to 57 years ahead of the Gregorian one, so most of 2026 falls in 2083 BS, and timestamps use Nepal Standard Time, UTC+5:45. Nepali-language pages often write prices in Devanagari digits. The fiscal year starts in mid-July, and the federal budget, presented each year on Jestha 15 in late May, can change customs duties on phones, vehicles and electronics overnight, so price series around that date need care. Scrapers and dashboards that assume Gregorian dates or whole-hour time offsets misread Nepali data. --- ## Netherlands proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/netherlands-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 65 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 28 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 17 (Amsterdam, Arnhem, Rotterdam, Haarlem, The Hague). Networks seen: 5 (Vodafone Libertel, Odido Netherlands, KPN). Median response time: 310 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 1.5M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NL · Review by: 2026-11-30. Dutch checkouts revolve around iDEAL, the bank payment built into nearly every Dutch web shop, with pay-later options from Klarna and Riverty on many sites. Storefronts are in Dutch, prices are in euros (EUR), and next-day delivery is treated as normal rather than premium. A visit from Belgium or Germany to the same retailer can therefore show different payment methods, delivery promises and prices from what a customer in the Netherlands gets. Bol is the largest domestic marketplace, and Coolblue, Amazon.nl and Zalando are the other big storefronts teams compare against it. Marktplaats carries classifieds and second-hand goods. Funda is the main portal for homes for sale and Pararius for rentals, while Thuisbezorgd.nl leads restaurant delivery and Albert Heijn and Picnic handle much of online grocery shopping. Tweakers Pricewatch and Beslist.nl show how retailers price against each other, and publishers such as NU.nl, De Telegraaf, AD and de Volkskrant sell display inventory. Bol also sells sponsored product placements inside its own search results, so ad checks there matter as much as on publisher sites. Google dominates Dutch search. Flemish sites in Belgium publish in the same language, so ranking checks need a Dutch location to see which .nl domains win a query rather than their Belgian counterparts. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Dutch implementing act, the Uitvoeringswet Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (UAVG) of 2018, overseen by the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. The Dutch gift season has two peaks. Sinterklaas arrives by steamboat on the first Saturday after 11 November, and presents are exchanged on pakjesavond, 5 December, so demand for toys, books and gadgets builds from mid-November and overlaps Black Friday before Christmas shopping begins. Price checks in this window should separate Sinterklaas promotions from Christmas ones, since many retailers run both in sequence. Grocery research has its own quirk: Picnic, which delivers with small electric vans and charges no delivery fee, takes orders through its app, so price research there means checking the app rather than a website, unlike Albert Heijn, whose prices appear on its web shop. --- ## New Caledonia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/new-caledonia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 7 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Noumea, Païta). Networks seen: 4 (OFFRATEL, CANL, Micro Logic Systems). Median response time: 1670 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NC · Review by: 2026-11-30. New Caledonia shops in French but prices in CFP francs (XPF), a currency fixed to the euro at about 119.33 XPF per euro, and it applies its own consumption tax, the TGC, instead of French VAT. Because the territory sits outside the EU VAT area, mainland French websites often limit delivery or add overseas shipping for a Nouméa address, and parcels are taxed again on arrival: customs charges duties and taxes on commercial shipments above 3,000 XPF, and French VAT paid at checkout does not exempt a parcel from them. The same product can therefore have a very different landed price when bought locally rather than from France. Local commerce runs through a handful of domestic sites. The Annonces.nc network groups classifieds by category, with Immobilier.nc for property and Automobiles.nc for cars, while Lemploi.nc is a separate job board. NC la 1ère, the France Télévisions station, and Radio Rythme Bleu are among the main news sources, and Aircalin sells international fares from Nouméa to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore and neighbouring islands. Mobile access comes from a single network, run by the public operator OPT-NC under its Helia brand. Google, used in French, is the main search engine, and French-language queries return mainland .fr pages alongside local .nc sites, so a check from New Caledonia shows whether local businesses or French retailers win a given query. Most residents and shops are in Greater Nouméa in the South Province, with the North Province and the Loyalty Islands served by fewer outlets. Personal data is covered by France's Informatique et Libertés law (Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978), with GDPR-based rules extended to New Caledonia by Ordinance No. 2018-1125 of 12 December 2018 and applied since June 2019. Travel inside New Caledonia is priced separately from the international routes. Long-haul flights land at La Tontouta, north-west of Nouméa, while domestic services leave from Nouméa's Magenta airport: Air Calédonie, majority-owned by the New Caledonian government, flies ATR 72s to Lifou, Maré, Ouvéa and Tiga in the Loyalty Islands, to Koné, Koumac, Touho and Belep in the North Province, and to the Isle of Pines. The Betico 2 ferry sails from Nouméa to the Isle of Pines in about two and a half hours and to Maré and Lifou in four to five, with online booking. --- ## New Zealand residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/new-zealand-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 12 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 7 (Auckland, Christchurch, Nelson, Napier City, Wellington). Networks seen: 5 (Devoli, One New Zealand Group, Spark New Zealand Trading). Median response time: 770 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. New Zealand has no local Amazon storefront. Shoppers who want Amazon buy from Amazon.com.au or Amazon.com, and since December 2019 offshore sellers have charged GST on imported goods worth NZ$1,000 or less, at the same 15% rate that is built into local shelf prices. Storefronts and search run in English with prices in NZD, while te reo Māori appears in brand names, government sites and bilingual labels. Couriers add rural delivery surcharges for addresses marked RD, so shipping costs and delivery estimates for rural buyers often differ from those shown in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch. Trade Me is the reference point for local commerce. It mixes auctions and fixed-price listings, many retailers sell through it, and its property, motors and jobs sections compete directly with specialist sites. PriceSpy compares retailer prices across electronics and household goods, and The Warehouse covers general merchandise. Grocery prices come from Woolworths, which finished replacing the Countdown name in December 2025, and the Foodstuffs banners New World and Pak'nSave, whose online prices follow the store you select. OneRoof sits beside Trade Me Property for housing. Google is the dominant search engine, and retailers that trade in both countries can have their Australian pages rank for New Zealand queries, so it is worth checking which version appears locally. Bing matters mainly through Microsoft Advertising. Personal information is governed by the Privacy Act 2020; the Privacy Amendment Act 2025 added information privacy principle 3A, in force since 1 May 2026, which requires organisations to tell people when they collect their personal information from a third party. Travel inside New Zealand is its own pricing market because the North and South Islands are linked only by air and sea. Air New Zealand is the dominant domestic airline, so its fares set the benchmark on most routes between Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Queenstown and the regional centres. Across Cook Strait, passengers and vehicles choose between Interislander, run by state-owned KiwiRail, and Bluebridge on the roughly three-hour Wellington to Picton crossing, and Interislander's replacement ferries are not due until 2029. InterCity runs the national coach network. All of them sell online in NZD, with fares that move with the season and the booking date. --- ## Nicaragua residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/nicaragua-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 18 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Managua). Networks seen: 5 (EMPRESA NACIONAL DE TRANSMISION ELECTRICA (ENATREL), CASAVISION, Telefonia Celular de Nicaragua). Median response time: 920 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NI · Review by: 2026-11-30. Nicaraguan shoppers see prices in córdobas (NIO), but US dollars are common for cars, rents, property and imported electronics, and many listings show both. Storefronts and search are in Spanish on the Pacific side, where Managua, León, Granada and Masaya hold most of the population. On the Caribbean coast, in the autonomous regions around Bluefields and Bilwi, English Creole and Miskito are widely spoken and online services are thinner. Cards issued by banks such as BAC and Banpro, and cash on delivery, are the common ways to pay online. Grocery retail is led by Walmart's Palí, La Unión and Maxi Palí chains and by the local Supermercados La Colonia. Encuentra24 carries classified listings for cars, jobs and property, Mercado Libre keeps a Nicaraguan site, and PedidosYa handles food delivery in Managua and other Pacific cities. Tourism pricing centres on Granada's colonial centre and on San Juan del Sur on the Pacific coast, where hotel, surf-camp and rental rates are quoted in dollars. Costa Rica is the usual comparison: Palí and Maxi Palí and many of the same brands operate on both sides of the border, but Nicaraguan prices, delivery coverage and promotions are set separately. Google is the dominant search engine, and Spanish results from Managua differ from those in León or Granada mainly in local packs for services and tourism. Personal data is covered by Law No. 787, the Personal Data Protection Law of 2012, with its regulation in Decree 36-2012. Travel inside Nicaragua splits by coast. La Costeña flies from Augusto C. Sandino airport in Managua to Bluefields, the Corn Islands and Puerto Cabezas, the routes that link the Caribbean side with the capital, so domestic fares are a separate check from international ones. Ometepe, the volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua, is reached mainly by ferries that cross several times a day from San Jorge to Moyogalpa. International coaches such as Tica Bus connect Nicaragua with Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Panama, which puts bus fares into any regional travel comparison alongside flights from Managua. --- ## Niger residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/niger-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 59 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 11 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Niamey, Zinder). Networks seen: 4 (Starlink, Societe Nigerienne des Telecommunications (SONITEL), Airtel Niger). Median response time: 950 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Since 2025 Hausa has been Niger's official language, yet French, kept on as a working language, still fills ministry websites, newspapers and almost every listing online. Hausa dominates speech across the south and centre, from Maradi to Zinder, and Zarma around Niamey, but Hausa writing on the web comes mostly from Nigerian publishers and BBC Hausa, since northern Nigeria produces far more of it. Niger kept the BCEAO's XOF franc after leaving ECOWAS with Mali and Burkina Faso in January 2025. Buyers settle with Airtel Money, with Moov Africa Niger's Moov Money, or in cash handed to the rider. CoinAfrique carries a Nigerien section where phones, cars and property are posted, largely from Niamey, and many traders skip websites altogether, selling from Facebook pages and WhatsApp. ActuNiger and Tamtaminfo are two established Niamey news outlets that run display ads for local advertisers, and Studio Kalangou, backed by the Swiss Fondation Hirondelle, airs and publishes news in French, Hausa, Zarma, Fulfulde and Tamasheq. Nigeriens search with Google. French keywords typed in Niamey bring up local pages among Malian, Senegalese and French ones, so rank tracking only means something from inside the country. Nigerien data rules sit in Law No. 2017-28, dating from 3 May 2017, which Law No. 2019-71, passed on 24 December 2019, amended to set up the HAPDP, an independent administrative body that oversees processing. Three southern cities behave like separate markets. Niamey, on the Niger River in the west, is Zarma-speaking and holds the ministries and head offices. Maradi and Zinder, farther east, are Hausa trading towns that look south to Kano and Katsina; the naira circulates beside the CFA franc in Maradi, so imported goods there often track Nigerian supply and the naira's exchange rate, and the city's Grand Marché handles wholesale, retail and cross-border trade every day. Agadez, at the edge of the Aïr Mountains and the Ténéré, is a far smaller northern market. Listings and map results change from one of these cities to the next, so pick the city before checking. --- ## Nigeria residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/nigeria-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 59 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 42 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Port Harcourt). Networks seen: 9 (MTN NIGERIA Communication, Airtel Networks, KKON Technologies). Median response time: 1070 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-NG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Bank transfer is an ordinary way to pay online in Nigeria. Many checkouts show a one-time account number to transfer naira (NGN) into, next to card payment through Paystack or Flutterwave and wallets such as OPay and PalmPay, and pay on delivery survives on many marketplaces. Storefronts and search run in English, but ads, reviews and social posts often switch into Nigerian Pidgin, and the BBC runs separate Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo news services for Nigerian audiences. Jumia Nigeria and Konga, which also runs physical stores in Lagos and Abuja, are the two large general marketplaces, Jiji.ng carries classifieds for phones, cars, property and jobs, and Nigeria Property Centre and PropertyPro list homes for sale and rent. Chowdeck delivers food and groceries in the major cities and has grown quickly since Jumia Food closed in 2023. Temu has also launched in Nigeria and competes on imported goods. Wakanow sells flights and hotels priced in naira. Nairaland, the long-running forum, and news sites such as Punch, Premium Times and Legit.ng carry much of the local display advertising. Google is the default search engine, and results for local-intent searches such as shops, restaurants and property differ between Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, so ranking checks should pick the city. Personal data is governed by the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, enforced by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC). Naira prices move quickly. In June 2023 the Central Bank of Nigeria unified its exchange-rate windows and let the naira trade freely; it fell 23% in a single day, hit new lows that July and dropped sharply again in early 2024. Sellers of imported electronics, phones and appliances on Jumia, Konga and Jiji reprice often as a result, and the same product can change price several times in a month. For monitoring in Nigeria, collect prices frequently and note the exchange rate on each date, so that a move caused by the naira can be told apart from a real promotion or a change in stock. --- ## North Macedonia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/north-macedonia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 59 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 33 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 9 (Skopje, Ohrid, Prilep, Kicevo, Kumanovo). Networks seen: 11 (Makedonski Telekom AD-Skopje, for communications services A1 Makedonija DOOEL Skopje, Signal NET). Median response time: 460 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-MK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Macedonian, written in Cyrillic, is the main storefront language, and Albanian, official nationwide since the 2019 language law, appears on public and some commercial sites, especially around Tetovo and Gostivar. Many users type searches in Latin transliteration rather than Cyrillic, so keyword lists need Cyrillic, Latin and Albanian forms. Prices are in denars (MKD), and cash on delivery and card instalments (на рати) from banks such as Komercijalna Banka, NLB and Stopanska Banka are common at checkout. Pazar3.mk and Reklama5.mk are the main classifieds sites, covering cars, flats, jobs and used goods; cars and flats there are usually priced in euros, while everyday goods are priced in MKD. Electronics retail runs through the chains Neptun, Setec and Anhoch, each with its own web shop. Wolt entered the country in 2025 and delivers food in Skopje. Time.mk, which aggregates stories from Macedonian outlets, is a common starting point for readers, Sitel, Telma and Kurir are major publishers, and Alsat serves Albanian-speaking audiences. Google dominates search, and results for the same product differ between Cyrillic, Latin and Albanian queries. Skopje holds much of the online demand, followed by towns such as Bitola, Kumanovo and Tetovo, while Ohrid's lake resorts drive summer travel pricing and Wizz Air, which has a base at Skopje airport, sells many of the outbound flights. Personal data falls under the Law on Personal Data Protection (Official Gazette 42/2020), which is aligned with the GDPR. Travel demand in North Macedonia follows two seasons and several regions. TAV Airports manages both international airports, Skopje and Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle, under a long-term concession, so flight searches should include both. In winter, demand moves to the ski resorts of Mavrovo, inside the national park of the same name, and Popova Šapka on the Šar Mountains above Tetovo. Lake Dojran on the Greek border is a smaller summer destination, and the Tikveš wine region around Kavadarci and Negotino, home to the Tikveš winery, sells its own winery tours and tastings. Rate checks should compare each area on its own seasonal calendar rather than against Skopje city hotels. --- ## Oman residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/oman-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 59 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Muscat, Salalah, Sohar). Networks seen: 4 (Oman Telecommunications (O.G), Omani Qatari Telecommunication SAOC, Awaser Oman). Median response time: 910 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-OM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Omani shoppers have long bought from UAE-based stores that ship across the border, and noon added local delivery in Oman in 2025, so its Omani prices and delivery promises now differ from its UAE storefront. Prices are in OMR, which divides into 1,000 baisa and is shown with three decimals, so Omani prices look small next to AED or SAR figures for the same item. Arabic is the main language of search and storefronts, with English common in Muscat, and cash on delivery and OmanNet debit cards are the usual payment options. Beyond noon, teams track Lulu Hypermarket's online store for groceries and household goods, OpenSooq Oman for cars, property and jobs, and Talabat for food delivery. OpenSooq Oman sorts listings by governorate, so asking prices in Muscat can be compared with Dhofar or Al Batinah. Times of Oman, Muscat Daily and the Oman Observer are the English-language publishers, with Al Watan and the Oman daily serving Arabic readers. Google is the dominant search engine, and Arabic queries from Oman often return UAE and Saudi pages, so a ranking check from inside the country shows which local businesses actually appear. Muscat, Sohar, Nizwa and Salalah sit far apart, with Salalah in Dhofar roughly a thousand kilometres by road from the capital, and delivery times and fees can differ widely between them. Personal data is covered by the Personal Data Protection Law issued by Royal Decree No. 6/2022, with executive regulations issued by Ministerial Decision No. 34/2024. Oman has two tourism seasons in different corners of the country. Muscat and the north are busiest in the cooler months from October to April, while Dhofar peaks during the Khareef monsoon from about June to early September, when fog and rain turn the hills around Salalah green and an annual Khareef festival draws visitors from across the Gulf. Hotel and apartment rates in Salalah rise in those months. Oman Air, the national carrier, and SalamAir, the low-cost airline based at Muscat International Airport, both fly between Muscat and Salalah, so fare checks during Khareef usually compare the two. --- ## Pakistan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/pakistan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 62 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 62 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 10 (Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Faisalabad). Networks seen: 27 (Cyber Internet Services (), Pakistan Telecommunication, IN CABLE INTERNET ()). Median response time: 1310 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Pakistani buyers search in English, Urdu script and Roman Urdu, the Latin-letter Urdu used in chats and many product searches, so keyword lists need all three. Prices are in rupees (PKR). Phone listings split into PTA-approved and non-PTA units, since imported handsets must be registered and taxed, so the same model carries two very different prices. Cash on delivery still leads marketplace checkout, while JazzCash, Easypaisa and bank transfers through the State Bank's Raast system are widely used. Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad get the widest delivery coverage and the most promotions; smaller cities often see higher fees, longer waits or fewer sellers. Daraz.pk is the main general marketplace, and its 11.11 sale and the Ramadan and Eid season bring the year's biggest promotions. Fashion labels such as Khaadi and Sapphire sell heavily through their own sites. OLX Pakistan leads classifieds for phones, cars and household goods, PakWheels is the reference for new and used car prices, and Zameen.com is the largest property portal. foodpanda leads food delivery, while Careem ended its ride-hailing service in Pakistan in 2025, so older competitor lists need updating. Dawn, Geo News, The Express Tribune and Jang are the main news publishers carrying local display advertising, with Jang and Geo reaching the Urdu-reading audience. Google is the dominant search engine, and Urdu-script and Roman Urdu queries return noticeably different results from English ones. Pakistan has no general data-protection law yet; a Personal Data Protection Bill has been in draft since 2023, and the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 covers some misuse of data. Travel fares are among the most watched prices in Pakistan. Domestic routes between Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta are flown by PIA, Airblue, SereneAir and Fly Jinnah, while Daewoo Express and Faisal Movers sell intercity coach seats online and Pakistan Railways takes bookings for its long-distance trains. Fares rise sharply before Eid, when workers travel home, and flights to Jeddah and Madinah follow the Umrah and Hajj seasons, with travel agents selling Umrah packages that bundle visas, hotels and flights. Routes to Dubai, Riyadh and other Gulf cities, where many Pakistanis work, form a separate fare market of their own. --- ## Palestine residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/palestine-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 51 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 8 (Ramallah, Gaza, Nablus, Bethlehem, Tulkarm). Networks seen: 5 (Palestine Telecommunications (PALTEL), Mada Al-Arab General Services, AL Zaytona For Communication). Median response time: 560 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PS · Review by: 2026-11-30. Palestine has no currency of its own. Everyday prices are in ILS, while JOD and USD are widely used for property, cars and savings, so a single classifieds search can return prices in three currencies. PayPal and Stripe do not serve Palestinian merchants, which pushes online sellers toward cash on delivery, bank transfers and local wallets such as PalPay's Mahfazti. Much retail runs through Facebook and Instagram shop pages rather than standalone stores, and without a reliable home mail system, private couriers handle most deliveries. The local platforms worth monitoring are OpenSooq Palestine, which has an office in Ramallah, for cars, property and jobs, and Yummy and Tawasi for restaurant and grocery delivery in West Bank cities such as Ramallah, Nablus and Bethlehem. Hebron, Nablus and Ramallah are the main commercial centres, and delivery app coverage differs between them. WAFA, Maan News and Al-Quds are the main Arabic news sites for checking local publisher placements. Conditions in the West Bank and Gaza differ sharply, and online commerce in Gaza is severely limited. Mobile browsing is shaped by the network: the Palestinian operators Jawwal and Ooredoo Palestine have offered only 3G for years, with a West Bank 4G upgrade approved in January 2026, so page weight and load behaviour matter more than in neighbouring markets. Google is the dominant search engine, with most queries in Arabic. Palestine has no general data-protection law yet. Two seasons shape Palestinian online selling. The olive harvest in October and November fills classifieds and social media shop pages with olive oil, olives and olive-oil soap from West Bank towns and villages, and prices for new-season oil are posted as the harvest comes in. In Bethlehem, where tourism is the main source of income, demand peaks at Christmas and Easter: hotel rates, tour prices and sales of olive wood carvings, the souvenir visitors buy most, rise with pilgrim numbers, which have been volatile in recent years. Ramadan and the two Eids bring the main retail peaks elsewhere, with clothing, sweets and household goods promoted heavily. --- ## Panama residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/panama-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 49 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Panama City, David, Las Tablas, San Miguelito). Networks seen: 8 (Cable Onda, Cable & Wireless Panama, Starlink). Median response time: 750 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Panamanian storefronts price in US dollars: the balboa (PAB) is fixed at par and circulates only as coins, so sites show $ and B/. interchangeably. Spanish is the language of storefronts and search, with English common in banking, shipping and the expatriate districts of Panama City. Checkout pages add ITBMS, the national sales tax, and local payment options include Yappy, Banco General's phone-number transfer app, and Clave debit cards alongside international cards. Encuentra24 has more listings in Panama than in any other country it serves, covering cars, property and jobs, and Compreoalquile competes in real estate. Mercado Libre keeps a Panamanian site and PedidosYa handles food delivery. Retail pricing is watched at Super 99, Riba Smith and El Machetazo for groceries and at Novey, Do It Center and Panafoto for hardware and electronics. Copa Airlines' hub at Tocumen makes Panama City a base for regional fare checks, and the Colón Free Zone, a re-export hub for Latin America, is a place brand-protection teams watch for grey-market stock. Google dominates search, and results in Panama City, Colón and David in Chiriquí differ in local packs; English-language queries in the capital pull in real-estate and relocation ads aimed at foreign residents. Personal data falls under Law 81 of 2019 on Personal Data Protection, in force since 29 March 2021 and regulated by Executive Decree 285 of 2021. Outside the capital, travel is a large part of what teams price. Air Panama flies from Albrook airport in Panama City, separate from Tocumen, to Bocas del Toro, Changuinola, David, Chitré and Pedasí, so domestic fares need their own check. Bocas del Toro's islands draw beach and surf visitors, the highlands around Boquete in Chiriquí attract retirees and coffee tourism, and the Azuero Peninsula around Chitré, Las Tablas and Pedasí fills up for Carnival, when Las Tablas hosts the country's best-known celebrations. Hotel and rental rates in each area move on their own calendar, so a Panama City check does not describe them. --- ## Papua New Guinea residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/papua-new-guinea-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 18 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 1 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Port Moresby). Networks seen: 1 (Starlink). Median response time: 970 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Papua New Guinea has more living languages than any other country, yet its business websites are overwhelmingly in English. Tok Pisin, the most widely used of the four official languages, is common in radio, advertising and social media, and Hiri Motu is used mainly in Central and Gulf provinces. Prices are in kina (PGK), divided into 100 toea. Most people rely on subsistence farming and the informal economy, and a great deal of selling is done on Facebook, in pages and buy-and-sell groups, rather than on shop websites. Bank South Pacific is the largest bank, and Digicel, owned by Australia's Telstra since July 2022, runs the CellMoni mobile wallet. Shortages of foreign currency have made it hard for importers to pay overseas suppliers; easing them is one aim of the government's IMF programme. The list of local sites worth monitoring is short. Hausples.com.pg lists houses, flats and land to buy or rent, priced in kina, across Port Moresby, Lae, Mount Hagen, Madang and Kokopo. CPL Group runs City Pharmacy, Hardware Haus, Jack's of PNG and the Real Rewards loyalty scheme, and Brian Bell sells household goods through its Homecentres stores, including those at Gordons Plaza and Lae Plaza. For news and advertising space, the main names are the Post-Courier, the first national daily, launched in 1969 and majority-owned by News Corp, The National, owned by the Malaysian group Rimbunan Hijau, EMTV, owned by Telikom PNG, and Digicel's TVWan. Web search runs through Google. Because queries are in English, Port Moresby hotels, retailers and service firms compete with Australian and other English-language pages for identical terms, and only a query run from inside the country reveals which Papua New Guinean names actually make the page. The country has yet to pass a general data-protection law, though the Constitution protects a right to privacy, and the Digital Government Act 2022 covers digital services across government. Geography divides the market. Port Moresby has no road link to Lae or Madang, so goods and people move between the main towns by air or sea. Lae is the largest cargo port and the start of the Highlands Highway, which carries freight up to Goroka and Mount Hagen and on towards Porgera, so a price seen in the capital may not match what a Highlands shop charges. Air Niugini sells domestic fares in kina, marketed as Nambawan Fares, to towns such as Wewak, Kavieng, Rabaul and Buka, and PNG Air flies ATR 72s on domestic routes from Jacksons International Airport. --- ## Paraguay residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/paraguay-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 58 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 15 (Ciudad del Este, Itauguá, Asunción, Santa Rita, Luque). Networks seen: 20 (Telecel, STARTELECOM, GIG@NET SOCIEDAD ANONIMA). Median response time: 770 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Paraguay's online market has two faces. Spanish and Guaraní are both official, but storefronts, search and ads run mainly in Spanish, and domestic prices are shown in guaraníes (PYG) as large whole numbers such as Gs. 250.000, which scrapers need to parse without decimals. In the border cities of Ciudad del Este, Pedro Juan Caballero and Salto del Guairá, stores sell electronics and perfume to Brazilian day shoppers and quote US dollars, while the Brazilian site Compras Paraguai compares those store prices in dollars and reais. Inside the country, Clasipar, which bills itself as Paraguay's leading classifieds site, lists cars, property and jobs, InfoCasas covers homes and rentals around Asunción and the Central department, and Monchis, a delivery app founded in Asunción, competes with PedidosYa for restaurant and supermarket orders. Mercado Libre has a Paraguayan site, though it plays a much smaller role than in Argentina or Brazil. ABC Color, Última Hora and La Nación are the main national publishers, and Tigo Money, the mobile wallet of the operator Tigo, is used alongside cards and bank transfers. Google is the dominant search engine, and for border retailers Portuguese-language searches from Brazil are part of the audience, which is why Compras Paraguai publishes in Portuguese. Paraguay approved Law No. 7593/2025 on Personal Data Protection in November 2025, and it applies from November 2027; until then personal credit data falls under Law No. 6534/2020. Paraguay's borders shape prices as much as its capital does. Ciudad del Este faces Foz do Iguaçu in Brazil across the Friendship Bridge, a short drive from Puerto Iguazú in Argentina, so hotel and tour prices for Iguazú Falls visitors can be compared in guaraníes, reais and Argentine pesos within one small area. Pedro Juan Caballero shares an open street border with Ponta Porã in Brazil, and Encarnación, linked by bridge to Posadas in Argentina, draws summer visitors to its river beaches and its carnival. Cross-border shopping in these cities rises and falls with the Brazilian and Argentine exchange rates, so their store prices move for reasons Asunción does not share. --- ## Peru residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/peru-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 58 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 13 (Lima, Arequipa, Chiclayo, Cusco, Huancayo). Networks seen: 18 (INTEGRATEL PERU A, America Movil Peru C, WI-NET TELECOM C). Median response time: 910 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Peruvian online shops sell in Spanish and price in soles (PEN), written S/, although property and many used cars are still advertised in US dollars. Checkouts reflect local habits: Yape and Plin, the phone wallets tied to Peru's main banks, appear next to cards and PagoEfectivo codes that buyers pay at an agent or through online banking. Delivery fees, promised dates and even stock often change when the address moves from Lima to Arequipa, Trujillo, Cusco or Piura, so a single Lima check says little about the regions. The platforms most teams watch are Mercado Libre Peru, the department-store sites of Falabella and Ripley, the Plaza Vea supermarket chain, Urbania for property and Neoauto for cars. Rappi and PedidosYa compete for restaurant and grocery delivery in the big cities, and the Cyber Wow sale periods move prices across the major retailers within a few days. El Comercio, La República and RPP are the usual places to confirm how national display campaigns appear. Google handles almost all searches, and in a metropolitan area the size of Lima, local results for Miraflores and for San Juan de Lurigancho can differ, as can results for the same query in Arequipa. Personal data falls under Law No. 29733, the Personal Data Protection Law of 2011, whose new regulation, Supreme Decree No. 016-2024-JUS, took effect in March 2025 and added breach notification duties. Travel prices in Peru follow their own rules. Domestic flights on LATAM, Sky and JetSMART compete with overnight coaches run by Cruz del Sur and other bus lines on routes such as Lima to Arequipa, while the rail link to Machu Picchu is run by PeruRail and Inca Rail, whose fares vary by departure time and train class. Entry to Machu Picchu itself is capped each day and priced differently for Peruvians and foreign visitors. Hotels usually quote foreign tourists rates without the IGV sales tax, which residents pay, so the same room can carry two prices and a check should record which one is displayed. --- ## Philippines residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/philippines-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 59 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 31 (Cagayan de Oro, Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, Cebu City). Networks seen: 14 (Philippine Long Distance Telephone, Globe Telecoms, Converge ICT Solutions). Median response time: 1020 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PH · Review by: 2026-11-30. English, Filipino and Taglish, the everyday mix of the two, all appear in Philippine listings and searches, often within one product title. Cebuano and other regional languages dominate conversation in the Visayas and Mindanao, but storefronts rarely use them. Prices are in pesos (PHP). GCash and Maya lead digital payments, but cash on delivery remains a standard checkout option on marketplaces, and delivery times and fees change markedly between Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao and the smaller islands across the Visayas and Mindanao. Much selling also happens through Facebook pages and live selling, with orders confirmed over Messenger. Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop are the main marketplaces. Double-date sales such as 9.9, 10.10 and 11.11 bring sharp price changes, and paydays on the 15th and at month end trigger their own promotions. Carousell hosts much of the second-hand trade, and GrabFood and foodpanda handle restaurant delivery. On Lamudi, condos in Makati, Bonifacio Global City and Ortigas form a separate market from provincial house-and-lot listings. Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines publish peso fares that move with seat sales, a common target for fare comparison. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, GMA News, Rappler and Philstar are the main news publishers carrying local display advertising. Google dominates search, and Taglish queries return different results and ads from pure English ones, especially for local services. The Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173), enforced by the National Privacy Commission, governs personal data. The Philippine shopping year starts early. Christmas promotions begin in September, the first of the so-called ber months, and build through December, when employers must pay the 13th-month pay required by law before 24 December. Overseas Filipino workers send balikbayan boxes home in the same months, so cargo and shipping prices peak alongside retail demand. Holy Week in March or April is the main domestic travel peak, when resorts in Boracay, Palawan and Siargao raise rates and ferry and flight seats sell out. The start of the school year brings back-to-school promotions on bags, gadgets and uniforms across marketplaces and malls. --- ## Poland proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/poland-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 39 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 21 (Lodz, Warsaw, Gdansk, Skawina, Bytom). Networks seen: 25 (Play, Toya sp.z.o.o, Orange Polska Spolka Akcyjna). Median response time: 380 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 1.3M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PL · Review by: 2026-11-30. Many Polish buyers start a product search on Allegro, the domestic marketplace, or on Ceneo, which compares prices across Polish shops, before they ever reach a retailer's own site. Storefronts are in Polish and prices in złoty (PLN). Two local habits shape checkout: BLIK, a six-digit code confirmed in the banking app, and delivery to InPost Paczkomat parcel lockers, which many shoppers choose over home delivery. Pay-later services such as PayPo also appear at many checkouts, and Allegro's Smart subscription adds free-delivery badges that change which offer looks cheapest. Beyond Allegro, teams watch Amazon.pl, which opened in 2021, Empik for books and media, and Media Expert and x-kom for electronics. OLX carries general classifieds, Otodom property and Otomoto used cars, while second-hand clothing also moves through Vinted and Allegro Lokalnie. Temu and AliExpress draw heavy traffic for low-priced goods. Pyszne.pl, Glovo and Wolt compete in food delivery, and PKP Intercity is the usual check for long-distance rail fares. The big web portals, Onet, Wirtualna Polska and Interia, sell much of the country's display advertising alongside news sites such as Gazeta.pl. Google dominates search, and product queries often return Allegro and Ceneo pages above individual shops, so a retailer's ranking check competes with marketplace listings as much as with other stores. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Act of 10 May 2018 on the Protection of Personal Data, supervised by the UODO. Since March 2018, Polish law has closed most shops on Sundays, leaving only a handful of trading Sundays each year, mostly before Easter and Christmas. Online stores are exempt, so weekend demand moves to Allegro and retailers' web shops, and Sunday promotions run online while physical stores are shut. Delivery choice at checkout is also wider than one locker brand: Allegro runs its own One Box lockers, Orlen Paczka uses Orlen petrol stations and its own lockers, and DPD Pickup points and cash on delivery (płatność za pobraniem) still appear. Each option carries its own fee and cut-off time, so the cheapest total can depend on the delivery choice. --- ## Portugal residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/portugal-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 46 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 21 (Lisbon, Porto, Funchal, Amadora, Felgueiras). Networks seen: 8 (Vodafone Portugal - Communicacoes Pessoais, Servicos De Comunicacoes E Multimedia, Nos Comunicacoes). Median response time: 350 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Storefronts in Portugal are written in European Portuguese, which differs in spelling, vocabulary and forms of address from the Brazilian Portuguese that dominates Portuguese-language content online. Language checks should confirm that a visitor in Portugal lands on the .pt version rather than a Brazilian one. Prices are in euros (EUR), and checkout pages offer MB Way and Multibanco payment references beside cards. Many checkouts also ask for a NIF, the taxpayer number Portuguese shoppers add to invoices. Portugal has no Amazon store of its own; Amazon.es serves Portuguese customers. Worten and Fnac lead electronics and media retail, with Worten also hosting third-party sellers on its own marketplace. Continente Online sells groceries, and KuantoKusta compares prices across Portuguese shops. OLX and CustoJusto carry classifieds, Standvirtual used cars, and Idealista and Imovirtual property listings. Glovo, Uber Eats and Bolt Food compete in food delivery. Público, Expresso, Observador, SAPO and Correio da Manhã carry display advertising, and TAP Air Portugal and CP trains are the usual travel fare checks. Google dominates search. Madeira and the Azores apply lower VAT rates than the mainland, and many online shops charge more for delivery to the islands or do not ship there, so totals and delivery options change by region. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Law No. 58/2019 of 8 August, which implements it in Portugal and is enforced by the CNPD. Hotel and short-stay prices in Portugal move with a calendar of named events. Lisbon's Santo António festivities peak on the night of 12 to 13 June and Porto's São João on 23 to 24 June, lifting city-centre rates for those dates. Web Summit brings a technology crowd to Lisbon every November, and Fátima fills with pilgrims around 12 and 13 May. The Algarve is a summer market, with rates in Albufeira, Lagos and Portimão climbing through July and August, while Madeira draws visitors for its New Year fireworks. Intercity coaches from Rede Expressos and FlixBus compete with rail on many routes, so fare checks should include both. --- ## Puerto Rico residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/puerto-rico-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 39 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 8 (Bayamón, San Juan, Salinas, Carolina, Mayagüez). Networks seen: 4 (Liberty Communications of Puerto Rico, DATACOM CARIBE, Starlink). Median response time: 540 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-PR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Puerto Rico shops inside the US retail system but on its own terms. Spanish is the everyday language of local storefronts, news and search, while the mainland sites islanders buy from are mostly in English. Prices are in US dollars (USD), with the island's sales and use tax, the IVU, added at checkout. Many mainland retailers handle a Puerto Rico address differently: some items are marked as not shipping there, delivery takes longer and fees change, so a check run from a mainland location misses what island shoppers see. Locally, ATH Móvil, the phone payment app run by Evertec, is accepted by many businesses alongside cards. ClasificadosOnline is the island's best-known classifieds site for property, cars and jobs, and the main local publishers are El Nuevo Día, Primera Hora, El Vocero and NotiCel. Walmart, Costco and Walgreens run stores across the island, so their island prices and stock can be set against mainland listings for the same products. Travel teams follow hotel rates in Condado and Isla Verde, vacation rentals in Rincón and Vieques, and fares on routes from the East Coast into San Juan. Google dominates search, and the same query returns different results in Spanish and English, with local packs built around San Juan, Bayamón, Ponce or Mayagüez. Google Ads lists Puerto Rico as a location separate from the United States, so check whether a US campaign has been set to include the island. There is no general privacy law: Act 111 of 2005 covers data-breach notification, and federal rules such as HIPAA and COPPA apply. Travel pricing on the island has its own layers. Flights between San Juan and the mainland are domestic US routes, and JetBlue carries the most passengers at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, so fare checks usually set it against the other mainland airlines serving each route. Vieques and Culebra work as separate markets: visitors reach them on ferries from Ceiba administered by the Maritime Transport Authority (ATM) or on small planes such as Cape Air's from San Juan, and the cost of that last leg belongs in any comparison of rentals and hotels there. Flights to both islands also leave from Isla Grande airport in San Juan and from Ceiba. --- ## Qatar residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/qatar-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 36 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Doha). Networks seen: 2 (Ooredoo Q.S.C, Vodafone Qatar P.Q.S.C). Median response time: 550 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-QA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Most of Qatar's population, and so most of its online demand, sits in greater Doha, and because most residents are expatriates, storefronts and ads run in English as much as in Arabic. Prices are in QAR, and checkout pages combine cards, cash on delivery and NAPS debit. Delivery addresses follow the blue plate system of zone, street and building numbers, and delivery apps set coverage and fees by zone. The country has grown its own delivery apps rather than relying only on regional ones: Snoonu, founded in Doha, competes with Talabat and with Keeta, which launched in August 2025 with large welcome vouchers and free delivery. For retail and classifieds, teams track noon, which began local delivery in Qatar in 2025, Qatar Living and dubizzle Qatar for cars, furniture and rentals, and Property Finder Qatar for homes in Doha, Lusail and The Pearl. Rents differ sharply between these newer districts and older areas such as Al Sadd or Al Wakrah. The Peninsula and Gulf Times lead English-language news, with Al Raya and Al Sharq in Arabic. Google dominates search, and Arabic queries from Qatar frequently return Saudi and UAE pages, so a check from Doha shows which local businesses and ads actually appear. English queries often surface Qatar Living pages beside retailers and news sites. Personal data is governed by Law No. 13 of 2016 Concerning Personal Data Protection, while the Qatar Financial Centre applies its own data protection regulations to firms registered there. Qatar's high season runs through the cooler months from November to March, when Doha hotel rates rise and most events cluster. Qatar National Day on 18 December is the main national promotion date, with maroon-and-white themed offers across retail and dining, and Ramadan brings late-night mall hours and delivery peaks that continue through Eid. The Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix at Lusail International Circuit, held under a contract that runs to 2032 and scheduled for late November in 2026, pushes up hotel prices on race weekend. In summer many residents travel, so Qatar Airways fares from Doha and outbound holiday packages peak while local demand eases. --- ## Republic of the Congo residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/republic-of-the-congo-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 56 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 44 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire). Networks seen: 4 (CONGO TELECOM, GVA Cote d'Ivoire, Airtel Congo). Median response time: 930 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online buyers in the Republic of the Congo use French-language sites and pay in the Central African CFA franc (XAF), the currency shared with Cameroon and Gabon. The market is split between Brazzaville, the capital, and Pointe-Noire, the oil port on the Atlantic coast, and rents, delivery fees and imported goods are priced differently in each. Checkout pages are built around the MTN MoMo and Airtel Money wallets, with cash on delivery still common. Gozem is the local super app most teams track, combining taxis, motorbike rides, food and grocery delivery and its Gozem Money wallet, while Yango competes for rides. Two classifieds sites overlap here: CoinAfrique and Jiji both run Congo editions for phones, vehicles, land and rentals, so a price check should cover both. For publisher monitoring, Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, published by the ADIAC agency, is the main daily and news site, carrying national, business and Pointe-Noire coverage. Brazzaville faces Kinshasa directly across the Congo River, yet the two markets use different currencies, different wallets and partly different apps, so data from one says little about the other. Google is the dominant search engine, and French queries from Brazzaville return Congolese pages mixed with DR Congo, Cameroonian and French results; rank checks should run from connections inside the country. Personal data is governed by Law No. 29-2019 of 10 October 2019 on the protection of personal data. Most people in the Republic of the Congo live in the south-west, along the Congo-Ocean Railway that runs 502 km between Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville. Dolisie and Nkayi, the next largest towns after the two main cities, sit on that corridor, and so do most of the shops, markets and mobile money agents outside the capital. The north, around Ouesso and Owando, is thinly populated forest where online delivery and classified listings are sparse. In practice the monitoring map is a line: Pointe-Noire on the coast, the rail towns inland and Brazzaville on the river. Checks that stop at Brazzaville miss the port city, where imported goods land first. --- ## Reunion residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/reunion-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 12 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 6 (Le Tampon, Saint-Denis, Saint-André, Saint-Benoît, Saint-Pierre). Networks seen: 5 (Reunicable, Orange, Canal + Telecom). Median response time: 810 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-RE · Review by: 2026-11-30. A French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, Reunion uses the euro (EUR), French law and French-language storefronts, yet it does not shop like mainland France. VAT is 8.5% instead of 20%, goods arriving on the island also pay the octroi de mer, a local tax, and parcels from the mainland travel by air or sea. Many mainland retailers therefore exclude the island from delivery, charge extra shipping or show different totals once a 974 postcode is entered, and Amazon.fr delivers only part of its catalogue there. Reunion Creole is widely spoken, but shopping and search stay in French. Leboncoin, the national classifieds site, has a Reunion region for cars, housing and jobs, which makes it the main source for local asking prices. Clicanoo, the site of Le Journal de l'île de La Réunion, Zinfos974, Linfo.re and Réunion la 1ère, the public broadcaster's island channel, are the main local news sites. Air Austral, based on the island, and Corsair sell the long-haul fares to Paris, and Air Austral also flies to Mauritius and Mayotte. Google (google.fr) dominates search, and local results for Saint-Denis, Saint-Pierre or Saint-Paul only make sense from an island connection, since a mainland French connection returns businesses thousands of kilometres away. Personal data falls under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and France's Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on information technology, data files and civil liberties (loi Informatique et Libertés), supervised by the CNIL. The island's coasts behave like separate local markets. Saint-Denis in the north holds the prefecture and most offices; the west around Saint-Paul and Saint-Gilles-les-Bains is the beach and tourist strip; the south centres on Saint-Pierre; and the wetter east around Saint-Benoît and Saint-André is more rural. Inland, the cirques of Cilaos and Salazie are reached by winding mountain roads, while Mafate has no roads at all, so supplies arrive on foot or by helicopter. Delivery options, local business results and rental prices differ between these areas, and checks should set the commune rather than just the island. --- ## Romania residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/romania-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 41 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 27 (Bucharest, Targoviste, Timișoara, Aiud, Mediaş). Networks seen: 7 (Digi Romania, Vodafone Romania, Orange Romania). Median response time: 430 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-RO · Review by: 2026-11-30. eMAG leads Romanian online retail, selling its own stock alongside a large marketplace of third-party sellers, with a Genius subscription for free delivery. eMAG also runs stores in Bulgaria and Hungary, so the same retailer shows different catalogues and prices in each of the three countries. Prices are in lei (RON) and storefronts in Romanian. Cash on delivery (plata ramburs) is still offered by many shops, interest-free instalments on partner bank cards are a common checkout option, and many parcels go to easybox and other lockers instead of home addresses. Altex and Flanco compete with eMAG in electronics, Fashion Days in fashion, and compari.ro compares prices across shops. OLX carries classifieds, Autovit used cars and Imobiliare.ro property. Food delivery changed in 2025 when Wolt took over eMAG's Tazz platform, which now competes as Wolt with Glovo and Bolt Food. Digi24, HotNews, Libertatea, Adevărul and Știrile ProTV sell much of the country's news display advertising. Travel checks usually cover CFR Călători for rail and TAROM and Wizz Air for flights. Google dominates search. Romanian is also spoken in neighbouring Moldova, where many of the same brands sell in Moldovan lei (MDL), so ranking and ad checks should confirm they are seeing the Romanian market rather than the Moldovan one. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Law No. 190/2018 on measures implementing it, supervised by the ANSPDCP. Results and prices in Romania also shift by region and season. Bucharest has the widest choice of delivery apps, grocery slots and same-day options, while Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara and Iași each have their own mix of local restaurants and retailers. In Harghita and Covasna counties, where Hungarians form the majority, Hungarian-language sites and ads sit beside Romanian ones. Travel pricing follows two peaks: the Black Sea coast, led by Mamaia near Constanța, fills from mid-June to early September, and mountain resorts such as Poiana Brașov draw the winter ski season, so hotel rate checks should be timed to the season being studied. --- ## Russia proxy server URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/russia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 67 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 34 (Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Saratov, Yekaterinburg). Networks seen: 42 (Rostelecom, PVimpelCom, Consumer Internet Cooperative PG-19). Median response time: 600 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 4.2M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-RU · Review by: 2026-11-30. The Russian online market has run on domestic rails since 2022. Visa and Mastercard cards issued abroad do not work in Russian shops, checkouts rely on Mir cards and the Faster Payments System (SBP), and Google stopped selling ads in the country in March 2022. Instagram and Facebook have been blocked since the same year, so social advertising moved to VK and Telegram. Prices are in roubles (RUB) and storefronts in Russian, with delivery dates and stock changing between Moscow, St Petersburg and cities further east. Marketplaces dominate online retail: Ozon, Wildberries and Yandex Market sell everything from groceries to electronics, Avito leads classifieds and used cars, Cian lists property, and DNS is one of the largest electronics chains online. Ozon and Wildberries also deliver to Belarus, Kazakhstan and other neighbouring markets, where the same listings are priced in local currencies. Yandex Eats covers food delivery, and Yandex Travel and Ostrovok are the usual hotel checks. VK, Odnoklassniki and Dzen carry much of the social and content advertising. Yandex leads search and sells paid placements through Yandex Direct. Google still handles part of organic search but shows no Russian ads, so paid-search checks run on Yandex while ranking checks need both engines. Federal Law No. 152-FZ On Personal Data of 2006, tightened from 1 July 2025, requires Russian citizens' personal data to be collected into databases located in Russia, which led many sites to drop foreign analytics tools. Advertising in Russia carries rules that change what an ad check looks for. Since 1 September 2022, online ads must be labelled as advertising, name the advertiser and carry an erid token registered in the Unified Register of Internet Advertising overseen by Roskomnadzor, and the rule covers paid posts by bloggers on VK and Telegram. Alcohol ads have been banned from almost all media since January 2013. Delivery also shapes checkout: Ozon and Wildberries run their own networks of pickup points and parcel lockers, built because reliable third-party delivery was missing in many regions, so listings show pickup at a nearby point beside courier delivery. --- ## Rwanda residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/rwanda-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 66 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 16 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Kigali, Ruhengeri). Networks seen: 6 (MTN Rwandacell, Starlink, GVA Cote d'Ivoire). Median response time: 860 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-RW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Rwanda has four official languages, Kinyarwanda, English, French and Swahili, and its web mostly uses the first two: government services and larger businesses publish in English and Kinyarwanda, and much of the news and social posting is in Kinyarwanda. Prices are in Rwandan francs (RWF). MTN MoMo is the most common way to pay, with shops displaying MoMo Pay merchant codes and online checkouts sending a payment prompt to the buyer's phone; Airtel Money is the second wallet, and card use is limited. Kigali's app market is small and mostly home-grown. Vuba Vuba delivers restaurant meals and groceries from hundreds of merchants in Kigali, Rubavu, Musanze and Rusizi, and Kasha sells health, beauty and personal-care products with discreet delivery and phone ordering. Irembo is the single online portal for government services. IGIHE, mostly in Kinyarwanda, The New Times in English and KT Press are the main news sites, and RwandAir sells regional and long-haul fares from its Kigali hub. Google is the search engine in practical use. Kinyarwanda queries return a narrow set of Rwandan pages, while English queries put Rwandan sites against Kenyan, Ugandan and international results, so ranking checks should cover both. Personal data is governed by Law No. 058/2021 of 13/10/2021 relating to the protection of personal data and privacy, supervised by the National Cyber Security Authority (NCSA), with which controllers and processors must register. Tourism pricing in Rwanda is set by residency. A gorilla trekking permit in Volcanoes National Park costs US$1,500 per person per day for foreign non-residents, with special offers for Rwandan and East African Community residents, and only 96 permits are available each day. Permits can be booked directly on Irembo or through licensed tour operators. Nyungwe, known for its canopy walkway and chimpanzee tracking, and Akagera, the savannah park in the east, sell their own activities. Travel teams comparing Rwandan packages should check permit prices and availability on the official channel alongside operator offers, from Rwandan connections. --- ## Saudi Arabia proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/saudi-arabia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 65 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 10 (Jeddah, Riyadh, Medina, Sharurah, Abha). Networks seen: 5 (Saudi Telecom, Etihad Etisalat, Etihad Salam Telecom). Median response time: 680 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Saudi e-commerce is Arabic-first and heavily mobile, priced in SAR, and its three main regions behave differently: Riyadh in the centre, Jeddah and Mecca on the Red Sea coast, and Dammam and Khobar in the Eastern Province each get their own delivery windows, stock levels and promotions. mada, the national debit network, is the default at checkout, next to Apple Pay and the instalment services Tabby and Tamara, and many product pages show a Tabby or Tamara instalment widget directly under the price. Teams monitor noon and Amazon.sa for general retail, Jarir for electronics, books and office supplies, Haraj for used cars and second-hand goods, Aqar for rentals and property sales, and HungerStation and Jahez for food delivery. Seasonal peaks follow Ramadan, the two Eids, Saudi National Day in September and the November White Friday and Yellow Friday sales, and prices on the big marketplaces change frequently around them. Google leads search, and Arabic queries return a different mix of Saudi retailers, government portals and ads than English ones. Arab News and Saudi Gazette serve English readers, while Okaz, Al Riyadh and Sabq lead Arabic news. Snapchat is a major ad channel in the kingdom alongside Google, so ad checks usually cover both. The Personal Data Protection Law, issued by Royal Decree M/19 in 2021 and amended in 2023, came into force in September 2023 with compliance required from September 2024, and is supervised by the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA). Travel pricing in Saudi Arabia is shaped by pilgrimage and a growing events calendar. Hotel rates in Mecca and Medina peak during Ramadan, especially its last ten nights, and in the Hajj season. Pilgrims book Umrah permits, hotels, flights and Haramain High Speed Railway tickets through Nusuk, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah platform launched in 2022. In the capital, Riyadh Season runs from about October to March and lifts hotel and event prices, and Jeddah runs its own season. Saudia, flynas and flyadeal carry most domestic flights, and Almosafer is a widely used local booking site for flights and hotels. --- ## Senegal residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/senegal-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 52 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 42 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Dakar). Networks seen: 4 (IDDQD, Starlink, Expresso Senegal). Median response time: 760 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SN · Review by: 2026-11-30. French is the written language of Senegalese commerce, from storefronts to classifieds, but Wolof dominates speech, radio and social video, and local ads often mix the two. Prices are in West African CFA francs (XOF), shared with the other UEMOA countries, so a Dakar price page can look like its Ivorian or Malian counterpart while offering different stock and delivery. Payment is mobile-first: Wave and Orange Money are the wallets most people pay with, and many merchants take them alongside cash on delivery. The platforms worth watching are mostly Dakar-centred. Jumia runs a Senegalese store, one of its core markets, while Expat-Dakar and CoinAfrique carry classifieds for cars, phones and property, with CoinAfrique also covering other francophone markets. Gozem runs its ride and delivery app in Dakar. News and advertising traffic concentrates on Seneweb, Senego, Dakaractu and the state daily Le Soleil. Listings from regional cities such as Thiès, Saint-Louis and Ziguinchor are thinner and can price differently from the capital. Ranking checks need to run from Senegal, because Google, the dominant engine, answers French queries with a mix of Senegalese sites and French or Ivorian pages. Personal data falls under Law No. 2008-12 of 25 January 2008 on the protection of personal data, supervised by the Commission de protection des données personnelles (CDP), which has been working on a revised text. Religious holidays set the Senegalese sales calendar more than imported events do. Before Tabaski, the local name for Eid al-Adha, sheep prices become a daily topic in news and classifieds, and demand for fabric, tailoring and new clothes peaks alongside it; Korité, marking the end of Ramadan, brings a second clothing and food peak. The Grand Magal of Touba, the Mouride pilgrimage held each year on the 18th of Safar, draws millions of pilgrims to Touba, and transport demand and road traffic surge around it. Black Friday promotions from online stores and electronics sellers add a late-year peak. Because Islamic dates move about 11 days earlier each year, these peaks shift across the calendar. --- ## Serbia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/serbia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 60 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 16 (Belgrade, Niš, Novi Sad, Jagodina, Banatsko Novo Selo). Networks seen: 10 (TELEKOM SRBIJA a.d, Yettel, A1 Srbija Beograd). Median response time: 390 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-RS · Review by: 2026-11-30. Serbian is written in two scripts. The public broadcaster RTS and several newspapers default to Cyrillic, while most online shops and classifieds use Latin, and people search in both, so ranking checks should cover Cyrillic and Latin forms of the same query. Prices are in dinars (RSD). Cash on delivery (plaćanje pouzećem) remains common, and many domestic cards run on the national DinaCard scheme. KupujemProdajem is the largest classifieds site, and Halo Oglasi covers property, jobs and cars. 4zida and Nekretnine.rs list real estate, and Polovni automobili is the reference for used cars. In retail, teams follow Gigatron and WinWin for electronics and Ananas, a general marketplace that also sells into Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. Wolt and Glovo compete in food delivery. News sites such as Blic, Kurir, B92 and N1 carry display advertising, and Air Serbia, the Belgrade-based national carrier, is the usual fare check. Google dominates search. Serbia is outside the EU, so parcels from EU shops go through customs and many foreign retailers do not ship there at all, which keeps domestic prices distinct from neighbouring Croatia and Hungary. Serbian is mutually intelligible with Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin, so regional sites can rank for the same Latin-script queries, and a check from Serbia shows which result a local searcher gets. Personal data falls under the Law on Personal Data Protection (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia No. 87/2018), modelled on the GDPR and applied since August 2019. Checkout pages in Serbia can offer instant bank payment through IPS, the National Bank of Serbia's system, which settles transfers within seconds at any hour. Shoppers scan an IPS QR code at checkout with their mobile banking app, and physical shops use the same codes, so an IPS option often sits next to cards and cash on delivery. Parcels travel with domestic couriers such as D Express, BEX, AKS, City Express and Post Express, and shops quote different delivery fees and times for each. In Vojvodina, where Hungarian is one of the province's official languages, Hungarian-language media such as Magyar Szó are part of the local ad market. --- ## Seychelles residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/seychelles-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 3 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Victoria). Networks seen: 2 (Cable & Wireless (Seychelles), GOKNET iletisim). Median response time: 820 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SC · Review by: 2026-11-30. Three official languages share the Seychellois web. Seychelles Nation, the daily paper, publishes in English, French and Creole, while government, bank and telecom sites lean on English. Local prices are in Seychelles rupees (SCR), usually written SR or R, yet resorts, guesthouses and excursion operators on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue commonly quote in euros or US dollars, so the currency a buyer sees depends on who is selling and to whom. Tourism drives most of the commercial traffic worth monitoring. Room rates for the same guesthouse can differ between its own site and international booking pages, and inter-island transport adds another layer: Air Seychelles flies the domestic route to Praslin, and Cat Cocos sells ferry seats between Mahé, Praslin and La Digue online. For news and advertising, the main local outlets are Seychelles Nation, the Seychelles News Agency and the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). With no large Seychellois marketplace, retail checks focus on shop websites, hotel booking pages and the social media accounts of Victoria businesses. Seychelles queries on Google, the default search engine, are crowded with foreign travel and review sites, which makes ranking checks from the islands themselves worth running for local businesses. Personal data is covered by the Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 24 of 2023), in force since December 2023 and supervised by the Information Commission. Each island is its own pricing market. Mahé holds Victoria, the international airport and most shops, restaurants and car hire, so it has the widest spread of room rates. Praslin draws day visitors to the Vallée de Mai, a UNESCO World Heritage site managed by the Seychelles Islands Foundation, which charges an entry fee. La Digue still runs mainly on bicycles and ox-carts, with most cars and buses owned by hotel companies, so bike hire rather than car rental appears in guesthouse offers. Outer islands such as Desroches and Alphonse each carry a single resort reached by charter flight, which makes a rate check there a check on one property. --- ## Sierra Leone residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/sierra-leone-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 30 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 5 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Freetown). Networks seen: 4 (QCell (SL), Fiber One (SL), Orange (SL)). Median response time: 1630 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SL · Review by: 2026-11-30. Krio is what Sierra Leoneans speak, and it fills radio, social video and comment threads, but English is the written language of websites, government notices and most advertising. Money is in transition: the leone was redenominated in 2022, dropping three zeros, and the new currency (SLE) is written NLe. Old habits persist, so news reports, shop posts and price lists still mix NLe figures with old-leone amounts written Le, and anyone comparing prices has to check which unit a page uses. Payments run through mobile money more than cards. Orange Money and Afrimoney, from Africell, handle transfers, bill payments and merchant checkout, and many sellers take orders over WhatsApp or Facebook and ask for a wallet transfer rather than sending buyers to a card form. With no large Sierra Leonean marketplace, monitoring centres on publishers and operators: Awoko and Sierraloaded for news, the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), the Orange and Africell sites for bundle and tariff pages, and the water-taxi and hotel pages that serve visitors crossing from Lungi airport to Freetown. Searches run on Google, and results for Sierra Leone queries mix Freetown outlets with diaspora sites and international organisations. The country has no general data-protection law in force yet; Cabinet approved a national data protection policy in April 2026, and a Data Protection and Right to Access Information Bill is being finalised for Parliament. Getting into Freetown is its own pricing question. The international airport sits at Lungi, across the estuary from the city, and arriving passengers choose between the government ferry, private water taxis that take about half an hour, and a road trip of three hours or more through Freetown traffic, each priced separately. Carriers serving Lungi include Brussels Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, ASKY, Air Senegal, Air Peace and Air Sierra Leone, which flies to London Gatwick and Lagos. A useful fare check compares the same dates across several of these and their connecting hubs in Brussels, Casablanca, Addis Ababa and Nairobi. --- ## Singapore residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/singapore-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 24 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Singapore). Networks seen: 8 (MobileOne Mobile/Internet Service Provider Singapore, Starhub, Simba Telecom). Median response time: 660 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SG · Review by: 2026-11-30. English dominates Singapore's storefronts, but pages and ads also run in Chinese, Malay and Tamil, and many regional sites treat Singapore as a separate storefront from Malaysia even when the brands are the same. Prices are in Singapore dollars (SGD), and consumer prices are normally shown with GST included. Checkout usually offers cards, PayNow QR, GrabPay and buy-now-pay-later plans, and next-day or same-day delivery is standard because the whole country is one metro area. Shopee, Lazada and Amazon.sg compete directly on price and delivery speed, and Carousell, founded in Singapore, is the main site for second-hand listings. PropertyGuru and 99.co carry property sales and rentals, where HDB resale flats, home to most households, form a separate market from private condominiums. sgCarMart is the reference for car prices, which move with Certificate of Entitlement bidding. GrabFood and foodpanda lead food delivery after Deliveroo left the market in March 2026, and grocery prices are tracked on FairPrice's online store and on RedMart, which runs inside Lazada. Hotel rates jump around large events such as the Formula 1 night race. The Straits Times, CNA, Mothership and Lianhe Zaobao are the main publishers carrying local advertising. Google dominates search, and results for property, finance and public-service queries lean heavily on .sg and .gov.sg sites, so rankings seen from abroad can differ from what residents get. The Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA), enforced by the Personal Data Protection Commission, governs personal data. Checkout totals in Singapore depend on where the seller is based. GST has been 9% since January 2024, and since January 2023 overseas marketplaces and retailers must also charge it on imported goods worth up to S$400, so Taobao, Amazon.com and other foreign sellers add GST at checkout rather than at the border. Many parcels go to SingPost's POPStation lockers or to pickup points near MRT stations instead of doorsteps. Across the Causeway, Johor Bahru is a constant reference point: many residents cross for groceries, fuel, dining and car servicing, so Singapore prices for everyday goods are regularly compared with ringgit prices a short drive away. --- ## Slovakia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/slovakia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 32 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 8 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Bratislava, Stará Ľubovňa, Topoľčany, Košice). Networks seen: 5 (Orange Slovensko, DSI DATA, Axalnet). Median response time: 3450 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Slovak shoppers have paid in euros (EUR) since the koruna gave way to the single currency at the start of 2009, so Slovak web prices can be set directly beside Austrian and other eurozone ones, while shops across the Czech border still quote crowns. Since 1 January 2025 those prices carry VAT at 23%, up from 20%, with reduced rates of 19% and 5% for categories such as some foods, medicines, books and accommodation. Order pages usually list cards, cash on delivery (dobierka) and a bank transfer with a PAY by square QR code, which the Slovak Banking Association treats as the national format for payment QR codes, so paying means pointing a phone's banking app at the code. Delivery to a Packeta pickup point or Z-BOX locker is offered next to courier and post. Many purchases start on Heureka.sk or Pricemania.sk, which compare offers from thousands of web shops. Alza.sk and Nay.sk sell electronics, Martinus.sk sells books, and Allegro opened Allegro.sk in February 2024 and shut the old Mall stores during 2025. Bazoš.sk handles general classifieds, Autobazar.eu used cars, Nehnutelnosti.sk flats and houses, and Profesia.sk job ads. Wolt and Bolt Food take restaurant orders in the larger cities, and SME, Aktuality.sk, Denník N, Pravda and Topky are big sources of display inventory. Search is effectively a one-engine market: Google handles most Slovak queries, and no domestic rival plays the part Seznam does next door. Slovaks read Czech with ease, so Czech-language pages and .cz shops can surface in google.sk results for Slovak queries. People also type without the marks on letters such as ä, ô, ľ and ť, and results can change when they do. Slovak personal data rules are the GDPR plus Act No. 18/2018 Coll. on Personal Data Protection. Regional splits matter more than the country's size suggests. Bratislava borders both Austria and Hungary and lies about an hour's drive from Vienna, so shoppers in the capital region weigh Austrian prices too, and incomes and rents there run well ahead of the east. Hungarians are the largest minority and, according to the 2021 census, form the majority in the Komárno and Dunajská Streda districts, where Hungarian-language creative and outlets such as the daily Új Szó reach readers that Slovak copy misses. Košice, the second city, anchors the east, so property and rent comparisons on Nehnutelnosti.sk work better region by region than as one national figure. --- ## Somalia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/somalia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 57 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 27 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 3 (Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Borama). Networks seen: 7 (Hormuud Telecom Somalia, SOMTEL INTERNATIONAL, SO!). Median response time: 1060 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SO · Review by: 2026-11-30. Somali is the language of search, news and social media here, with Arabic in religious and some business content and English on NGO and government sites. The Somali shilling (SOS) is the official currency, but most online prices, rents and mobile money balances are in US dollars, and Somaliland uses its own shilling alongside the dollar. Mobile money is the default way to pay: EVC Plus from Hormuud in Mogadishu and the south, Zaad from Telesom in Somaliland, Sahal from Golis in Puntland, and eDahab from Somtel. A checkout that works in Mogadishu may need a different wallet in Hargeisa or Garowe. Much trade runs through Facebook pages and WhatsApp rather than a national marketplace, which puts publishers and operators at the centre of any monitoring. Hiiraan Online, Garowe Online and Goobjoog News are long-running Somali news sites read at home and in the diaspora, alongside BBC Somali and the state news agency SONNA. Telecom sites from Hormuud, Telesom and Golis list bundles, wallet fees and merchant services that differ by region, and money-transfer firms such as Dahabshiil publish the remittance fees many families watch closely. Somali-language results on Google, the main search engine, mix domestic outlets with diaspora sites in Kenya, Europe and North America, so a query from Mogadishu can return different pages than the same query from London. The Data Protection Act, Law No. 005 of 2023, created the Somalia Data Protection Authority, which launched in 2024. Somalia's domestic air network does much of the work that roads do elsewhere. Somali-owned carriers such as Jubba Airways, Daallo Airlines and African Express Airways link Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport with Hargeisa, Bosaso, Garowe, Kismayo, Baidoa and Galkayo, and fly on to Nairobi, Djibouti and Jeddah. International airlines serving Mogadishu include Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways, Qatar Airways, Uganda Airlines and Air Djibouti. Fares are quoted in US dollars, and Jubba and Daallo overlap on routes such as Bosaso, Garowe, Hargeisa and Kismayo, so fare research should compare Somali airlines against each other as well as against the international connections through Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Istanbul. --- ## South Africa residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/south-africa-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 60 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 60 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 16 (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Thembisa, Durban, Pretoria). Networks seen: 24 (Dimension Data, HERO TELECOMS (PTY), Telkom). Median response time: 950 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ZA · Review by: 2026-11-30. South African online retail runs in English, with Afrikaans on some news, property and farming sites and the other official languages mostly in radio, social media and advertising. Prices are in rand (ZAR) and include VAT. Shoppers pay by card, by instant EFT through services such as Ozow, through PayFast checkouts, with Capitec Pay or PayShap, or with buy-now-pay-later options like PayJustNow and Payflex. Delivery promises differ sharply by metro, with same-day and one-hour grocery slots in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban that thin out in smaller towns. Takealot is the largest local online store, and Amazon.co.za has competed with it since launching in 2024, alongside Makro, Checkers Sixty60 for groceries, Mr D for food, and Superbalist and Bash for fashion. Temu and Shein also sell heavily into the market. Gumtree and Facebook Marketplace carry classifieds, Property24 and Private Property list homes, and AutoTrader and Cars.co.za cover vehicles. For advertising, News24, TimesLIVE, IOL and Daily Maverick are the major publishers. Local results on Google, map packs and Shopping ads vary noticeably between Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, and Afrikaans queries surface a different set of publishers and property sites from English ones. Travel pricing runs through FlySafair on domestic routes and Travelstart for fare comparison, with rates for Cape Town and Kruger lodges peaking in the December holidays. Personal information falls under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA), enforced by the Information Regulator since July 2021. South Africa's retail calendar follows pay cycles as much as holidays. Many salaried workers are paid around the 25th, so month-end weekends bring grocery and fashion promotions, while social grant payment days early in the month drive another round of grocery specials. Black Friday in late November is the biggest online sales event of the year, followed by the December holidays, when schools close and many families travel to the coast. January brings back-to-school stationery and uniform sales before the school year starts, and the Easter long weekend is another retail and travel peak. Price monitoring should therefore sample around the 25th and early in the month, not only on fixed dates. --- ## South Korea residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/south-korea-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 18 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 15 (Chuncheon, Dalseong-gun, Wŏnju, Gangbuk-gu, Gunpo). Networks seen: 7 (Korea Telecom, GREEN CABLE TELEVISION STATION, LG POWERCOMM). Median response time: 1540 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 2.1M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-KR · Review by: 2026-11-30. South Korea's web is built around domestic platforms and strict identity checks: many shopping and community sites ask for verification through a Korean mobile number, and prices are in won (KRW). Payment runs through local card issuers and wallets such as Naver Pay, Kakao Pay and Toss, so checkout pages look quite different from global templates. Delivery is fast by any standard, with next-day and early-morning delivery routine around Seoul. AliExpress and Temu have grown quickly as well, so cross-border prices now show up in many local comparisons. Coupang is the largest online retailer, Naver Shopping pulls thousands of smaller stores into its search results, and Gmarket, 11st and SSG.com remain large. Musinsa leads online fashion, Kurly specialises in early-morning grocery delivery, and Danggeun (Karrot) is the neighbourhood second-hand app. Baemin and Coupang Eats dominate food delivery, Yanolja and Yeogi Eottae cover accommodation, and Zigbang and Naver Real Estate list property. Naver is the most used search engine for Korean queries, followed by Google, with Daum a distant third. Naver's results page is built around its own blogs, cafes, shopping and answers rather than a plain list of web links, so rankings must be checked on Naver and Google separately. KakaoTalk, the dominant messaging app, carries its own ad formats, and the Daum portal still hosts news. The Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) of 2011, substantially amended in 2020 and 2023, governs personal data and is enforced by the Personal Information Protection Commission. South Korea's retail calendar mixes government, platform and traditional events. Korea Sale Festa, the government-backed discount festival that began as Korea Black Friday in 2015, runs across late October and November, alongside 11st's Grand 11 Day and Musinsa's Black Friday. Chuseok in autumn and Seollal at the Lunar New Year are the two big gift-set seasons, when department stores and online malls sell boxed sets of beef, fruit, canned ham and health foods in volume. Pepero Day on 11 November and White Day on 14 March move confectionery sales, and the dates of Chuseok and Seollal shift each year with the lunar calendar. --- ## South Sudan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/south-sudan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 34 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 1 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 0. Networks seen: 1 (RCS-Communication). Median response time: 1820 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SS · Review by: 2026-11-30. Juba Arabic is the everyday lingua franca of South Sudan, and radio and social media also run in Dinka, Nuer and other languages, but English is the official language of websites and advertising. The South Sudanese pound (SSP) has lost value quickly against the dollar, so rents, hotel rooms, vehicles and many services in Juba are quoted in US dollars while market goods are priced in pounds that can shift within weeks. Anyone comparing prices over time has to note the currency and date of each figure. Juba's online sellers work through Facebook pages and WhatsApp rather than a marketplace, and payments rely on cash and mobile money such as m-Gurush, which handles transfers, bills and electricity tokens. What teams usually monitor are publishers and prices. Radio Tamazuj, Eye Radio, Sudans Post, Juba Monitor and The City Review publish South Sudan news online every day, and their fuel, food and exchange-rate reports are a common input for market research. Many job and tender notices come from humanitarian agencies and NGOs based in Juba. Searches on Google for South Sudan topics return these outlets alongside UN, NGO, Sudanese and Kenyan sites, so ranking checks from inside the country show which sources people in Juba actually see. There is no general data-protection law yet; in December 2025 the government said it would introduce a first Data Protection Bill in 2026. Most online price information for South Sudan comes from Juba. Imported goods largely arrive overland from Uganda through Nimule, where a one-stop border post opened in 2020, and up the Juba–Nimule road, so Ugandan supply and exchange rates feed straight into Juba shelf prices. Beyond the capital, towns such as Wau, Malakal, Bor and Rumbek depend on roads, long sections of which become impassable in the rainy season, and on air cargo, so prices there run higher and move faster. Anyone publishing or checking regional price data should label the town rather than the country, and expect far fewer online sources outside Juba. --- ## Spain proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/spain-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 67 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 45 (Madrid, Bilbao, Córdoba, Huesca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). Networks seen: 17 (Digi Spain Telecom, Xtra Telecom, Telefonica De Espana u). Median response time: 400 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 4.0M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ES · Review by: 2026-11-30. Regional languages change what shoppers in Spain see online. Stores sell in euros (EUR) and Castilian Spanish, while regional sites and campaigns often add Catalan, Basque, Galician or Valencian versions for visitors in Barcelona, Bilbao, Santiago or Valencia. Bizum, the bank-to-bank mobile payment service, now sits beside cards at many checkouts. The Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla sit outside the EU VAT area, so many mainland shops charge more, show different stock or do not deliver there at all. Amazon.es, which also serves many buyers in Portugal, competes with El Corte Inglés, PcComponentes and MediaMarkt, while Wallapop and Milanuncios lead second-hand sales. Wallapop is built around its mobile app, so checks should cover the app as well as the website. Idealista and Fotocasa are the reference for rents and property prices. Glovo, founded in Barcelona, competes with Just Eat and Uber Eats in food delivery, and Renfe, Iryo and Ouigo compete on high-speed rail fares. El País, El Mundo, 20minutos and Marca are among the biggest publishers for display campaigns. Google dominates search, and google.es results shift between regions, with local packs changing by city and some queries returning Catalan-language pages in Catalonia. Spanish-language queries also compete with pages written for Mexico or Argentina, so checks from Spain show which local version wins. Personal data falls under the GDPR and Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December on personal data protection and digital rights (LOPDGDD). Spain's gift season runs later than in most of Europe. In many Spanish homes the Three Kings bring the main presents on 6 January, so toy and electronics demand stays high into the first week of the year, and the winter sales, las rebajas, traditionally begin on 7 January. Summer sales start around 1 July. Father's Day falls on 19 March, the feast of Saint Joseph, and Mother's Day on the first Sunday of May, each with its own gift promotions. Back-to-school campaigns, known as la vuelta al cole, fill late August and early September, when stationery, uniforms and laptops are discounted. --- ## Sri Lanka residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/sri-lanka-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 24 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Colombo, Nittambuwa, Kandy, Homagama). Networks seen: 4 (Sri Lanka Telecom Internet, Dialog Axiata, Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka ()). Median response time: 960 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-LK · Review by: 2026-11-30. Sri Lankan shoppers move between English, Sinhala and Tamil, often within one session: marketplace listings are mostly in English, while classified ads, reviews and comments switch to Sinhala or Tamil script or to Sinhala typed in Latin letters. Prices are in rupees (LKR). Cash on delivery is still widely used alongside cards, bank transfers and LankaQR payments, and delivery fees and times change between Colombo and districts in the north, the east and the hill country. Hotels and tour operators aimed at foreign visitors often quote US dollars instead of rupees. Daraz.lk is the largest general marketplace, and ikman.lk leads classifieds for vehicles, phones, property and jobs; its listings are the usual reference for used-car prices. Kapruka sells gifts, groceries and cakes and is widely used by Sri Lankans abroad to send deliveries to family at home, so its prices reflect diaspora demand as much as local spending. PickMe covers rides and restaurant orders through PickMe Food, LankaPropertyWeb lists houses and land, and Riyasewana specialises in vehicle ads. Ada Derana, Newsfirst and the Daily Mirror are among the most visited news sites and the usual places where local display campaigns run. Google is the dominant search engine, and Sinhala, Tamil and English queries for the same product return noticeably different results; romanised Sinhala adds a fourth set of results to check. The Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022, amended in 2025, is being brought into force in stages. Sri Lanka's biggest retail season comes in the weeks before the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in mid-April, when clothing, home appliances, sweets and gift hampers are promoted heavily and government employees can draw a festival advance on their salary. Vesak in May fills listings with lanterns and decorations, and Christmas together with the December school holidays forms a second peak. Deepavali matters to Tamil households and the two Eid festivals to Muslim households, so the language and product mix of promotions shifts through the year. Daraz.lk runs its own campaigns, including 11.11, on top of this festival calendar. --- ## Suriname residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/suriname-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 9 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Paramaribo, Groningen). Networks seen: 2 (Telecommunicationcompany Suriname - TeleSur, Digicel Suriname). Median response time: 480 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Dutch is the official language of Suriname, the only country in South America where that is true, so local shop sites, news and many ads are in Dutch, while everyday talk on social media mixes Dutch with Sranan Tongo, Sarnami and Javanese. Prices are set in Surinamese dollars (SRD), but cars, appliances, rents and property are often quoted in US dollars or euros, a habit that grew as the SRD lost much of its value from 2020. Payment options include cards, bank transfers and local wallets such as Mopé and Uni5Pay+, which pays by QR code in shops and at some web shops. Starnieuws, De Ware Tijd, Waterkant and Suriname Herald are the main news sites and the places to confirm how local display campaigns appear. For prices, teams track the retail chain Kirpalani's, the telecom operators Telesur and Digicel, and fares on the Paramaribo–Amsterdam route, which is shaped by the large Surinamese community in the Netherlands and its holiday travel. Google is the main search engine, but Dutch-language queries also match a huge volume of pages from the Netherlands and Belgium, so ranking checks need to run from Surinamese connections to see .sr domains, Surinamese businesses and local listings as residents do. A check from Amsterdam and one from Paramaribo can return very different first pages for the same words. Suriname has no general data-protection law yet. Suriname's calendar mirrors its many communities, and shopping peaks follow it. Chinese New Year, Holi Phagwa, Ied-ul-Fitr and the Sacrifice Feast, Divali, Christmas and Boxing Day are all official public holidays, alongside Keti Koti on 1 July, Indigenous Peoples' Day on 9 August, Maroon Day on 10 October and Independence Day on 25 November. Each brings its own food, clothing and gift buying, so a price series for groceries, fabric or electronics should mark these dates. The year ends with the Owru Yari celebrations in Paramaribo, and December is a common time for family visits from the Netherlands, which lifts demand for flights and rooms. --- ## Sweden residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/sweden-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 20 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 11 (Gothenburg, Järfälla Municipality, Norsborg, Malmö, Östersund). Networks seen: 7 (Tele2 SWIPnet, Telia, Bredband2). Median response time: 280 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Swedish checkouts look different from most of Europe: Swish, the bank-backed mobile payment, and Klarna invoices and instalments sit beside cards, and many services use BankID for login and signing. Klarna itself is Swedish, and paying by invoice after delivery is a long-standing habit. Prices are in kronor (SEK) and storefronts in Swedish. Amazon.se only opened in October 2020, so domestic retailers and comparison sites still carry much of the price competition. Prisjakt and PriceRunner are where shoppers compare offers from Elgiganten, NetOnNet, Webhallen and CDON. Blocket carries classifieds and used cars, Tradera runs online auctions, Sellpy resells second-hand clothing, and Hemnet and Booli list housing. Alcohol retail is a state monopoly run by Systembolaget, so drinks prices come from a single domestic source. Apotea sells pharmacy and health products online, and Foodora and Wolt compete in restaurant delivery. Aftonbladet, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter carry much of the news display advertising, and SJ is the usual rail fare check. Google dominates search, and product queries often return Prisjakt and PriceRunner pages above retailers, so ranking checks should include comparison sites; directory sites such as Hitta.se and Eniro also compete for local service searches. Same-day and grocery delivery slots cluster around Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, while deliveries to Norrland take longer. Personal data falls under the GDPR and the Swedish Data Protection Act (2018:218), overseen by IMY. Delivery choice is a visible part of Swedish checkouts. Shops typically list several options side by side with separate prices and times: PostNord service points inside grocery stores and kiosks, DHL service points, home or locker delivery from Budbee, and Instabox lockers. Retailers set free-delivery thresholds per option, so the cheapest total depends on which carrier a shopper picks, and a price check that stops before the delivery step can miss the real difference between stores. Online grocery adds booked time slots, and chains such as ICA and Willys offer both home delivery and store pickup with separate fees. --- ## Switzerland residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/switzerland-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 56 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 12 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 10 (Kloten, Lugano, Rapperswil, Utzenstorf, Zurich). Networks seen: 4 (Sunrise, Bluewin, EKT). Median response time: 270 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-CH · Review by: 2026-11-30. Three languages and a strong franc shape Swiss online retail. Stores run in German, French and Italian, sometimes on the same site, and price in Swiss francs (CHF) at levels well above neighbouring euro countries. Buyers pay with TWINT, the domestic mobile payment app, alongside cards and invoice. Orders from abroad carry Swiss VAT and customs handling, so a Swiss address can change a foreign shop's prices, shipping options or whether it delivers at all. Amazon has no Swiss storefront and serves the country from Amazon.de, so Digitec Galaxus is the reference store for electronics and general goods, alongside Brack.ch and Zalando's Swiss site. Galaxus also sells in Germany and Austria, but its Swiss prices and stock are separate. Migros Online and Coop's online shop compete for grocery delivery. Ricardo runs auctions, tutti.ch and anibis.ch carry classifieds, Homegate and ImmoScout24 list property, and Comparis compares insurance, property and car offers. Just Eat and Smood deliver restaurant meals. 20 Minuten and Blick are among the largest news sites, and 20 minutes is the French-language edition for Romandie. Google dominates search, and google.ch shows different results for the same product in German, French and Italian, with ads that follow the language region. Queries in French or Italian also compete with sites from France and Italy. Personal data falls under the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), a Swiss law separate from the EU's GDPR that has applied since 1 September 2023. Swiss travel prices have quirks that foreign fare checks miss. SBB shows two prices for most train tickets, the full fare and a reduced fare for holders of the Half Fare travelcard, and it sells discounted Supersaver tickets whose prices change with demand, while the GA travelcard covers most public transport for its holders. EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg sits on French soil but has a Swiss sector, so booking sites list it under Basel, Mulhouse or Freiburg and travellers can leave into Switzerland or France. Checks for Swiss travellers should compare Zurich, Geneva and Basel departures and the rail fares that compete with short flights. --- ## Syria residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/syria-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 54 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 26 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 0. Networks seen: 4 (High Speed For Internet Services L.L.C, Syrian Telecommunication Closed, RCell). Median response time: 840 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-SY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Syrian storefronts, ads and searches are mostly in Arabic, with Kurdish common in the northeast, and prices are in Syrian pounds (SYP). The pound was redenominated at the start of 2026, when new notes replaced old ones at 100 to one, so any price series that crosses that date needs converting before it means anything. Day-to-day digital payments run through phone wallets: Sham Cash, through which many public-sector salaries are paid, also settles Damascus electricity bills and government fees, and Syriatel offers its own Syriatel Cash wallet. OpenSooq runs a Syrian edition for cars, property, phones and furniture, with listings filtered by city from Damascus and Aleppo to Homs, Hama and Latakia. BeeOrder, launched in 2016, delivers restaurant meals and groceries in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Latakia and Tartous, and YallaGo, a Damascus company founded in 2018, operates a ride-hailing app nationwide. The state news agency SANA publishes in Arabic, English, French, Kurdish, Spanish and Turkish, Al-Watan carries an advertising bulletin on its site, Enab Baladi reopened a Damascus office in January 2025, and Syria TV broadcasts news in Arabic. Syriatel and MTN Syria run the main mobile networks, and Kuwait's Zain won the licence that replaces MTN's in June 2026. Google handles nearly every web search made in Syria. For years many global platforms limited access, account creation and payments for users in Syria; after the country came off the US list of state sponsors of terrorism on 24 August 2026, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology asked those companies to review their geographic limits and said the changes would come gradually. Syria has no general data-protection law yet, and the ministry itself named a personal data protection framework first among the legal requirements global companies set before entering the market. Fares into Syria have become worth tracking again. Damascus International Airport resumed international flights on 7 January 2025 with a Qatar Airways service from Doha, and Royal Jordanian, Turkish Airlines, Etihad, flydubai, Air Arabia, flynas and flyadeal have since added routes. Syrian Air, the state carrier, sells through its own booking site, while Fly Cham, which replaced Cham Wings in June 2025, flies Airbus A320s to Gulf, Iraqi and Turkish cities. Aleppo International Airport is Fly Cham's second base, so departures from Aleppo need checking separately from those out of Damascus. --- ## Taiwan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/taiwan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 41 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 17 (Kaohsiung, Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Pingtung City). Networks seen: 9 (Data Communication Business Group, kbro, UNION BROADBAND NETWORK). Median response time: 960 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Traditional Chinese text, Zhuyin keyboard input and prices in New Taiwan dollars (TWD) set Taiwan's storefronts apart from other Chinese-language markets. Government forms and some retail pages date documents by the Minguo calendar, so 2026 appears as year 115. Checkout is closely tied to convenience stores: many buyers choose pickup and payment at 7-Eleven or FamilyMart, and pay-at-store codes sit alongside cards, LINE Pay and JKOPAY on most checkout pages. Online orders from Taiwanese merchants produce an electronic uniform invoice that enters a government receipt lottery, so checkout forms ask buyers for a mobile barcode carrier. Shopee Taiwan, momo shopping, PChome 24h and Coupang compete on delivery speed and daily deals, while Ruten hosts auctions and second-hand sellers. 591 is the main site for property rentals and sales, and 104 Job Bank leads job listings. Uber Eats and foodpanda remain separate competitors after regulators blocked Uber's purchase of foodpanda Taiwan in December 2024. Opinions form on the PTT and Dcard forums, and Yahoo Kimo, LINE TODAY, the Liberty Times and United Daily News are major ad-supported news sources. Google is the dominant search engine, and Yahoo Kimo still matters as a portal for news and shopping. Yahoo's search results in Taiwan are powered by Bing, so a check there partly reflects Bing rankings rather than Google's. The Personal Data Protection Act, amended in 2023 and again in 2025 to set up a dedicated Personal Data Protection Commission, governs personal data. Taiwan's sales calendar mixes marketplace events with local traditions. Department stores such as SOGO and Shin Kong Mitsukoshi hold anniversary sales from October to December, with matching online deals, and Double 11 and Double 12 are among the biggest days for Shopee Taiwan, momo shopping and PChome 24h. Lunar New Year brings gift boxes and year-end bonus spending, Mother's Day in May is a major peak for cosmetics and dining, the Dragon Boat Festival sells zongzi, and the Mid-Autumn Festival in September or October sells mooncakes and barbecue supplies. Price series for these categories swing with the festival dates, which move each year. --- ## Tajikistan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/tajikistan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 15 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Dushanbe). Networks seen: 7 (Babilon-T, Closed TT mobile, Telecomm Technology). Median response time: 950 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TJ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Tajikistan's online market works in two languages: Tajik, written in Cyrillic, for banking apps and government services, and Russian for most classifieds, marketplace listings and product searches. Prices are in somoni (TJS). Payments run through bank cards, including the national Korti Milli system, and mobile wallets such as Alif Mobi, while cash still settles many classifieds deals. Money sent home by relatives working in Russia funds much household spending, which keeps Russian marketplaces and Russian-language prices familiar. Dushanbe and Khujand get the widest delivery coverage; orders to mountain towns such as Khorog in the Pamirs take noticeably longer. Somon.tj is the main classifieds board, with ads for flats, cars, phones, furniture and jobs priced in somoni and written mostly in Russian. Alif Shop, run by the Alif financial group, sells electronics and appliances on instalment plans, so its listings show monthly payments as prominently as full prices. Wildberries opened pickup points in Dushanbe and Khujand in 2025, later reaching Khorog, and opened registration to all Tajik sellers in April 2026, which brings Russian-marketplace pricing into local comparisons. Asia-Plus and the state news agency Khovar are the main local news sources, publishing in Tajik, Russian and English. Google is the most used search engine, with Yandex also common among Russian-language users, so rankings should be checked on both. Tajik-language queries return a much smaller set of pages than Russian ones. Personal data is governed by the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan on Personal Data Protection (No. 1537 of 3 August 2018). Tajikistan's regions are separated by high mountain ranges, and each behaves like a separate market. Khujand in the northern Sughd region lies in the Fergana Valley, closer by road to Tashkent than to Dushanbe, and has many Uzbek speakers; the road south to the capital crosses the Shahristan pass and the Anzob tunnel. Kulob and Bokhtar lie in southern Khatlon, the most populous region, while Khorog in Gorno-Badakhshan sits on the Pamir Highway, where Pamiri languages such as Shughni are spoken and winter weather can cut the road. Stock, delivery fees and prices for bulky goods therefore need checking region by region, not from the capital alone. --- ## Tanzania residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/tanzania-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 56 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 32 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 5 (Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza, Sumbawanga, Zanzibar). Networks seen: 6 (MIC TANZANIA, Airtel Tanzania, Savanna Fibre (Tanzania)). Median response time: 1360 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Swahili is the working language of the Tanzanian web: news, classifieds, forums, social media and most advertising are in Kiswahili, while English appears on business, banking and tourism sites. Prices are in Tanzanian shillings (TZS), but safari operators and Zanzibar hotels usually quote US dollars. Mobile money is the default way to pay. M-Pesa from Vodacom, Mixx by Yas (formerly Tigo Pesa), Airtel Money and HaloPesa all take merchant payments, and aggregators such as Selcom connect them to online checkouts. Jiji is the main general classifieds site, covering cars, phones and property in Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza and Dodoma. Travel pricing is its own market: Air Tanzania and Precision Air sell domestic flights, Azam Marine runs the ferries between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's hotels price separately from the mainland. For news and advertising, teams watch Mwananchi and The Citizen, the state-owned Daily News, the JamiiForums discussion site and Millard Ayo's news channels. Swahili queries on Google, the dominant engine, return a different set of pages from English ones. Online publishers, bloggers and online TV channels need a licence from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) under the online content regulations, which shapes which local sites and channels exist. Personal data falls under the Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 11 of 2022), in force since May 2023 and supervised by the Personal Data Protection Commission. Overland travel in Tanzania is being repriced by rail. The electric Standard Gauge Railway, run by the Tanzania Railways Corporation, opened passenger services from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro in June 2024 and on to Dodoma in July 2024, with tickets sold at stations, online and through mobile money apps. Long-distance buses still dominate routes to Arusha, Mwanza and Mbeya, with maximum fares regulated by the Land Transport Regulatory Authority (LATRA). Within Dar es Salaam, the DART bus rapid transit system sets its own fares. Comparing train, bus and domestic flight prices on the Dar es Salaam–Dodoma route shows how the three now compete. --- ## Thailand proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/thailand-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 65 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 21 (Bangkok, Phuket, Bang Lamung, Chiang Mai, Phitsanulok). Networks seen: 8 (AIS Fibre, True Online, Triple T Broadband). Median response time: 890 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 1.1M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TH · Review by: 2026-11-30. Thai storefronts, search results and reviews are written almost entirely in Thai script, and many sites date content by the Buddhist Era calendar, so 2026 appears as 2569. Prices are in baht (THB). PromptPay QR transfers are the most common way to pay online, with TrueMoney Wallet, cards and cash on delivery alongside, and brands sell directly to customers through LINE Official Accounts as well as on marketplaces. Bangkok has the widest delivery coverage, while tourist areas such as Phuket, Pattaya and Chiang Mai carry their own hotel, tour and restaurant pricing. Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop are the main marketplaces, with double-date and payday campaigns driving price swings. Kaidee handles classifieds for used goods and vehicles, DDproperty lists homes and condos, and LINE MAN and GrabFood lead food delivery now that foodpanda has left Thailand. Supermarket prices appear on the Lotus's, Big C and Makro apps and sites, and Agoda, which runs its main operations from Bangkok, is a core source for hotel rates. Wongnai restaurant reviews and the Pantip forum shape buying decisions, and Thairath and Sanook are among the largest ad-supported publishers. Google is the dominant search engine, and Thai-language queries return different sites and ads from English ones, especially for travel and property. LINE is the main messaging app, so many brands also run LINE ads next to their Google and Facebook campaigns. The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019), fully in force since June 2022, governs personal data. Travel pricing in Thailand is a market of its own. Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air, Nok Air, Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways compete on domestic routes from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, Phuket, Krabi and Samui, and the State Railway of Thailand sells seats and sleeper berths online through its D-Ticket system. Ferries to Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao are sold by operators such as Lomprayah and Seatran, often bundled with bus or train connections through booking sites such as 12Go. Fares and hotel rates peak from November to February and again around Songkran in mid-April, when many Thais travel home to their provinces. --- ## Togo residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/togo-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 54 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 33 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Lomé). Networks seen: 2 (GVA Cote d'Ivoire, IDDQD). Median response time: 1350 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Togolese storefronts, classifieds and search run in French, while Ewe dominates daily speech in Lomé and the south and Kabiyè is widely spoken in the north, so local radio and social video often switch languages by region. Prices are in West African CFA francs (XOF), the same currency as Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal. Lomé's deep-water port makes the capital a regional trading hub and a transit point for goods heading inland to Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, which shapes supply and prices for vehicles, electronics and building materials. Mobile money carries most payments. Flooz from Moov Africa and Mixx by Yas, the wallet of the operator formerly branded Togocom, are the two main wallets, and they appear at checkout for bills, deliveries and online orders. Gozem, founded in Lomé, combines motorcycle and car taxis, food and grocery delivery and a digital wallet in one app, and its fares in Lomé are a practical reference for local transport and delivery costs. CoinAfrique carries classifieds for vehicles, phones and property, and news and advertising concentrate on republicoftogo.com, iciLome and, for business coverage, Togo First. Local ranking checks need a Togolese vantage point, since French queries on Google, the dominant engine, compete with Beninese, Ivorian and French pages. Personal data falls under Law No. 2019-014 of 29 October 2019 on the protection of personal data, supervised by the Instance de protection des données à caractère personnel (IPDCP). Lomé is an air hub out of proportion to Togo's size. ASKY Airlines, a multinational carrier serving West and Central Africa, has its head office in Lomé and its hub at the city's airport, with Ethiopian Airlines as strategic partner and largest shareholder, so many regional itineraries between Dakar, Abidjan, Accra, Lagos, Douala and Kinshasa connect through Lomé. On the ground, the Aflao crossing into Ghana sits at the western edge of the city, and the coastal road runs east to Benin at Hilla-Condji. Fare checks for the region should therefore include ASKY connections through Lomé alongside direct flights and road options. --- ## Trinidad and Tobago residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/trinidad-tobago-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 56 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Chaguanas, Port of Spain, Couva, Princes Town). Networks seen: 4 (Digicel Trinidad and Tobago, Columbus Communications Trinidad, AIR LINK COMMUNICATIONS). Median response time: 480 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TT · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online shopping in Trinidad and Tobago happens in English and in Trinidad and Tobago dollars (TTD), but many households order from US retailers through freight forwarders that give them a Miami shipping address and deliver the parcel after duty and fees. That makes landed cost, not the US sticker price, the figure to compare with local shelves. Local web shops take cards through gateways such as WiPay, which also serves Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica, and cards on the local Linx debit network are widely accepted in stores. Useful price benchmarks include Massy Stores and PriceSmart for groceries and household goods, and Caribbean Airlines, the national carrier, for fares. Trinidad Express, the Trinidad Guardian and Newsday are the main national publishers. The two islands behave differently: Trinidad drives most retail and business travel around Port of Spain, Chaguanas and San Fernando, while Tobago's market is built on tourism around Crown Point and Scarborough. Carnival, in February or March, lifts flights and hotel rates into Port of Spain every year, so seasonal price series need to mark it. Google is the main search engine, and local packs for Port of Spain, Chaguanas and San Fernando differ from those in Tobago. The Data Protection Act, 2011 is only partly in force: some sections were proclaimed in January 2012 and no date has been set for the rest. The retail calendar in Trinidad and Tobago follows its mix of communities. Divali and Eid al-Fitr are public holidays with their own spending on gifts, clothes and food, alongside Christmas, Boxing Day, Indian Arrival Day on 30 May and Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day on 30 March. August stacks Emancipation Day on the 1st and Independence Day on the 31st with back-to-school buying before the September term, and Republic Day follows on 24 September. Carnival Monday and Tuesday are not official public holidays, but much of Trinidad treats them as days off, so store hours, delivery times and promotions shift that week too. --- ## Tunisia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/tunisia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 60 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 18 (Tunis, Aryanah, Sousse, Monastir, Ben Arous). Networks seen: 7 (OOREDOO TUNISIE, TOPNET, Orange Tunisie). Median response time: 550 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TN · Review by: 2026-11-30. Tunisian e-commerce is written mostly in French, with Arabic on news, government and some retail sites, and Tunisian Arabic (Derja) in social media and ads. Prices are in Tunisian dinars (TND), and because the dinar is not convertible, most residents cannot pay foreign sites freely. They buy from local stores that accept domestic bank cards, the e-Dinar card from La Poste Tunisienne, wallets such as Flouci, or, very often, cash on delivery. Jumia left the country at the end of 2024, leaving online retail to Tunisian chains and specialist sites. For price monitoring, electronics and appliance sellers such as Mytek and Tunisianet publish detailed catalogues that move with promotions. Tayara is the main general classifieds site, Automobile.tn covers new and used car prices, and Mubawab lists property for sale and rent. Traveltodo sells hotel stays in Hammamet, Sousse and Djerba, and its dinar rates for residents often differ from the euro prices foreign tour operators charge for the same hotels. Mosaïque FM, Business News and La Presse are widely read outlets for news and advertising. French and Arabic results sit side by side on Google, the dominant engine, and French queries often compete with pages from France. Personal data falls under Organic Law No. 2004-63 of 27 July 2004 on the protection of personal data, supervised by the INPDP; a bill to replace it has been under review by parliament's rights and freedoms committee during 2026. Summer reshapes Tunisian travel prices. Tunisians living abroad come home in large numbers in July and August, many on the CTN ferries from Marseille and Genoa and on Tunisair and Nouvelair flights from France, Italy and Germany, so ferry and air fares on those routes rise well above the rest of the year. Algerian visitors cross by land to coastal resorts, Tabarka among them, adding to hotel demand. Ramadan changes the rhythm again, with food promotions, late-evening shopping and a clothing peak before Eid. Price checks for hotels, ferries and flights therefore need to run on specific dates rather than be averaged over the year. --- ## Turkey proxy URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/turkey-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 64 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 62 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 25 (Istanbul, Bursa, Ankara, Adana, Bartın). Networks seen: 12 (Turk Telekom, Superonline Iletisim Hizmetleri, Turksat Uydu Haberlesme Kablo TV ve Isletme). Median response time: 650 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 1.4M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-TR · Review by: 2026-11-30. Domestic marketplaces lead Turkish online retail, and TRY prices change often because of high inflation, so price histories need frequent checks rather than monthly ones. Checkout pages are shaped by taksit, the practice of splitting a credit card purchase into monthly instalments: retailers publish instalment tables per bank card programme, such as Bonus, World, Axess and Maximum, and the same product can carry different terms depending on the card. Troy, the domestic card scheme, appears beside Visa and Mastercard. Many stores show both a cash price and an instalment total, and a peşin fiyatına taksit offer means instalments at the cash price. Trendyol, Hepsiburada and Amazon.com.tr are the main marketplaces, and Akakçe compares prices across them and smaller retailers. Sahibinden is the leading classifieds site for cars and property, while Yemeksepeti and Getir cover food and grocery delivery. Delivery speed and grocery coverage vary between Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and smaller cities, so a check from one city does not describe the whole country. Google is the dominant search engine, but Yandex still runs a Turkish-language engine at yandex.com.tr, so some teams track both. Turkish characters matter: queries typed with and without ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş and ü can return different results. Hürriyet, Milliyet and Sabah are among the large news publishers carrying display advertising. Personal data falls under Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) of 2016, whose cross-border transfer rules were revised in 2024. Holiday travel sets Turkey's fare calendar. Ramazan Bayramı lasts three days and Kurban Bayramı four, and in several years the government has added bridge days to stretch them into nine-day breaks, which sends domestic flight and intercity coach fares sharply higher. Turkish Airlines, Pegasus and AJet, the low-cost airline rebranded from AnadoluJet in 2024, carry most domestic flights, while coach operators such as Kamil Koç and Metro Turizm cover routes the airlines do not. Coastal hotels in Antalya and in Muğla, the province that includes Bodrum and Marmaris, price for a June to September peak, so rate checks need dates inside and outside that window. --- ## Uganda residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/uganda-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 61 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 20 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Kampala). Networks seen: 6 (Savanna Fibre, Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group, MTN Uganda). Median response time: 1140 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-UG · Review by: 2026-11-30. Ugandan websites, online stores and search run in English, with Luganda common in Kampala radio, advertising and social video, and Swahili used in trade and across the east. Prices are in Ugandan shillings (UGX), which have no decimal subdivision in everyday use. Mobile money is how most people pay: MTN MoMo and Airtel Money handle transfers, bills, school fees and merchant payments, and online checkouts are expected to offer them. Internet data carries an excise duty that replaced the social media tax in 2021, which keeps browsing mobile-first and data-conscious. Jumia treats Uganda as one of its core markets and runs a full local store, while Jiji carries classifieds for cars, phones, electronics and property. SafeBoda, the Kampala motorcycle-taxi app, also offers deliveries. Rents for upmarket Kampala homes are often quoted in US dollars, while most other listings stay in UGX. For news and advertising, the Daily Monitor, New Vision and Nile Post are the main online publishers. Prices and delivery coverage differ between Kampala and towns such as Entebbe, Jinja, Mbarara and Gulu, and many sellers outside the capital list only on classifieds or through WhatsApp. A Kampala ranking check on Google can differ from one run in Nairobi, since English queries compete with Kenyan and international sites. Personal data falls under the Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, with the Personal Data Protection Office at NITA-U handling registration and enforcement. Tourism prices in Uganda are largely quoted in US dollars. Uganda Airlines, relaunched in 2019 and based at Entebbe International Airport, flies regional routes such as Nairobi, Kigali, Juba, Dar es Salaam, Kinshasa and Mogadishu, and longer ones including Lagos, Jeddah, Mumbai and London Gatwick. Gorilla-trekking permits for Bwindi and Mgahinga, sold by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, and the lodges around those parks are priced in dollars for foreign visitors, while local transport and shops stay in shillings. Visitors reach Kampala from Entebbe on the tolled Kampala–Entebbe Expressway. Travel research should keep dollar and shilling prices apart and compare Uganda Airlines fares with the regional carriers on the same routes. --- ## Ukraine residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/ukraine-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 62 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 32 (Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv). Networks seen: 49 (Content Delivery Network, Kyivstar, Maxnet Telecom). Median response time: 500 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-UA · Review by: 2026-11-30. Since 16 July 2022, Ukraine's language law has required Ukrainian-registered online stores to load their Ukrainian version by default, with no less content than any other language version, so a visitor in Ukraine should land on Ukrainian pages even where Russian or English versions exist. Prices are in hryvnias (UAH). Delivery usually runs through Nova Poshta branches and parcel lockers, and many shoppers still pay on collection, alongside cards and bank apps such as Monobank and Privat24. Instalment plans from PrivatBank and Monobank appear on many product pages. Rozetka is the largest online retailer and marketplace, Prom.ua hosts small and mid-sized shops, Epicentr sells home and DIY goods online, and OLX carries classifieds. Kasta and Makeup.com.ua are strong in fashion and beauty. Hotline.ua compares prices, DOM.RIA lists property and AUTO.RIA used cars. Glovo and Bolt Food compete in food delivery, and Silpo delivers groceries. Ukrainska Pravda, TSN and UNIAN are among the news sites selling display advertising. Google dominates search, partly because Yandex, Mail.ru, VK and Odnoklassniki have been blocked in Ukraine since 2017. Many people still search in Russian as well as Ukrainian, so the same product often has two keyword sets with separate results. Personal data falls under the Law of Ukraine on Personal Data Protection (No. 2297-VI of 2010). A GDPR-style replacement, draft law No. 8153, passed first reading in November 2024. Cross-border delivery now links Ukrainian stores with Ukrainians living abroad. Nova Poshta opened its first branch in Warsaw in October 2022 under the Nova Post name and has since expanded to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Romania, Germany and other EU countries, so orders and price checks for Ukrainian shops can involve EU addresses as well. Inside Ukraine, Ukrposhta, the state postal operator, is the main alternative for cheaper parcels, and Rozetka runs its own pickup points for orders from its marketplace. Each option changes the delivery fee and date shown at checkout, so price checks should note which one was selected. --- ## United Arab Emirates residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/united-arab-emirates-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 66 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 8 (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah). Networks seen: 3 (Emirates Telecommunications Group (etisalat Group), Emirates Integrated Telecommunications, Optimum Line for Internet Services). Median response time: 1050 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-AE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Emirati storefronts usually publish in English first and Arabic second, because most residents are expatriates. Prices are in AED, delivery inside Dubai and Abu Dhabi is often same-day, and checkout pages commonly show cash on delivery next to cards and the instalment services Tabby and Tamara. Many advertisers also reach expatriate communities in Hindi, Urdu or Malayalam, so an ad check in one language rarely covers a whole campaign. Promotions follow a local calendar: Ramadan, the Dubai Shopping Festival over December and January, and November sales that Amazon.ae brands White Friday and noon brands Yellow Friday. The platforms most teams watch are noon and Amazon.ae for general retail, dubizzle for cars and second-hand goods, Bayut and Property Finder for rentals and sales, and Talabat and Careem for food and grocery delivery. Rents, delivery fees and service areas differ between emirates, so a Dubai result should not be read as a Sharjah or Abu Dhabi result. Rents are quoted per year and often paid in several cheques, which property listings show next to the price. Google dominates search, and the same product query in Arabic and English returns different local results and ad auctions. Gulf News, Khaleej Times and The National lead English-language news, with Al Khaleej and Emarat Al Youm in Arabic. Onshore personal data falls under Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data, while the DIFC and ADGM financial free zones run their own data protection regimes. Travel pricing is a market of its own in the UAE. Four home carriers sell fares in AED: Emirates and flydubai from Dubai, Etihad from Abu Dhabi and the low-cost Air Arabia from Sharjah, so fare checks usually compare all four from a UAE point of sale. Hotel rates swing with the weather, peaking from November to March and falling in the summer heat, and they climb further around large Dubai events such as GITEX Global. Dubai booking pages also add the Tourism Dirham, a per-room, per-night fee that rises with hotel class, so the checkout total is higher than the nightly rate shown in search results. --- ## United Kingdom proxy server URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/united-kingdom-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 69 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 61 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 48 (Manchester, Birmingham, Bradford, City of London, London). Networks seen: 16 (Virgin Media, British Telecommunications, Three). Median response time: 320 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 3.5M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-GB · Review by: 2026-11-30. Online retail in the UK is priced in GBP and split between online-only sellers and store-led chains: Amazon.co.uk and eBay sit beside Argos, Currys, John Lewis and ASOS, and grocery delivery slots from Tesco, Sainsbury's and Ocado are compared as closely as prices. Tesco Clubcard Prices and Sainsbury's Nectar Prices give many grocery items a second, members-only price, so both need recording. Klarna and Clearpay instalments appear on many fashion checkouts. Gumtree, Auto Trader, Rightmove and Zoopla carry used goods, cars and homes, Vinted and Depop lead second-hand clothing, and Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats compete in takeaway delivery. Insurance and energy are sold largely through comparison sites such as Compare the Market, MoneySuperMarket, Confused.com and Go.Compare, where the quote table is itself the product being monitored. Google dominates search, with Bing a distant second. Results on google.co.uk for local-intent queries shift between London, Manchester, Glasgow and Belfast, and many retailers charge more or refuse delivery to the Scottish Highlands, the islands and Northern Ireland. BBC websites carry no advertising for UK visitors while showing ads abroad, so ad checks on UK news belong on commercial publishers such as the Daily Mail, The Guardian and Reach regional titles. Since Ofcom's July 2025 deadline under the Online Safety Act 2023, many platforms run age checks for UK users, which changes what some pages show from inside the country. Personal data falls under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, both amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. Several product categories are restricted in ways that change UK pages and ad slots. Since 5 January 2026, paid online advertising for food and drink high in fat, sugar or salt has been banned, so product ads for many snacks and fast-food items should no longer appear in UK online placements. Single-use disposable vapes have been banned from sale since June 2025, and online knife sellers must check age both at purchase and on delivery. Prescription-only medicines cannot be advertised to the public, so UK online pharmacies lead with consultation forms rather than product ads. Ad verification for UK campaigns should confirm that restricted products stay out of placements served to UK visitors. --- ## USA residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/usa-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 71 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 70 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 61 (Chicago, Philadelphia, Ashburn, Atlanta, Calabasas). Networks seen: 25 (Comcast Cable Communications, Charter Communications, Verizon Business). Median response time: 470 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. Residential IPs: 10.5M+ (inventory count, 2026-07-12). What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-US · Review by: 2026-11-30. American storefronts are organized around ZIP codes as much as around the country. Prices on Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Target.com are shown before sales tax, and the tax added at checkout depends on the state, county and city of the delivery address, while pickup slots, delivery promises and in-store stock follow the nearest store. Checkouts in USD are card-first, with PayPal, Apple Pay and buy-now-pay-later plans from Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay common on retail sites. English dominates, but Spanish-language searches return their own results and ads, which matters in metros such as Miami, Houston and Los Angeles. Beyond the big three retailers, teams usually watch eBay and Etsy for resale and counterfeit listings, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace for local classifieds, Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin for property, DoorDash, Uber Eats and Instacart for restaurant and grocery pricing, and Expedia and Kayak for fares and hotel rates. Many of these show different inventory, fees or delivery windows by metro area, so a check from Chicago does not stand in for one from Phoenix. Google handles most searches, and its local pack, map results and Shopping ads change from city to city and between ZIP codes. Bing also powers much of Yahoo's and DuckDuckGo's results, so a ranking report usually covers both engines. There is no general federal privacy law: personal data falls under sector laws such as HIPAA and COPPA and a growing list of state laws led by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, amended by the California Privacy Rights Act in 2020. The US retail calendar is set by a few national dates and many state ones. Prime Day in July, and Amazon's October sale in recent years, pull Walmart and Target into competing events, while Black Friday and Cyber Monday follow Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day bring appliance, mattress and car promotions. Several states, including Texas and Florida, run back-to-school sales tax holidays that briefly change checkout totals in those states only, so a price series should flag holiday weekends and the state each check came from. --- ## Uruguay residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/uruguay-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 47 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 4 (Montevideo, Maldonado, La Capuera, Cardal). Networks seen: 2 (Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, Telefonica Moviles del Uruguay). Median response time: 820 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-UY · Review by: 2026-11-30. Uruguayan shoppers pay in pesos (UYU) for everyday goods, but property, cars and many appliances are quoted in US dollars, so the same site often lists two currencies and a price series needs to keep them apart. Storefronts and search use the Rioplatense Spanish shared with Buenos Aires, which means Argentine sites compete for many of the same queries. The cash networks Abitab and Redpagos are still offered at checkout next to cards and Mercado Pago, letting buyers order online and pay in cash at counters found across the country. PedidosYa, now a regional delivery brand, was founded in Montevideo in 2009, and Mercado Libre Uruguay, the supermarket chain Tienda Inglesa and Tiendamia, which sells imported US products to Uruguayan buyers, are the usual retail benchmarks. InfoCasas and Gallito list homes and rentals, including Punta del Este, where summer rents and hotel rates climb between December and February. El País, El Observador and Montevideo Portal are the main national publishers. Google dominates search, and results on google.com.uy mix Uruguayan and Argentine domains, so ranking checks need Uruguayan connections to reflect what users in Montevideo or Salto see. Uruguay has one of the region's older privacy laws, Law No. 18.331 on Personal Data Protection and Habeas Data of 2008; the European Commission recognized it as adequate in 2012, and Law No. 19.670 added breach notification in 2018. Travel pricing in Uruguay centers on the Río de la Plata. Buquebus runs fast ferries from Buenos Aires to Colonia del Sacramento and Montevideo, with coach connections on to Piriápolis and Punta del Este, and competes with Colonia Express on the Colonia crossing, so ferry fares form a natural price series alongside flights into Montevideo's Carrasco airport. Inside the country, long-distance coaches leave from Montevideo's Tres Cruces terminal, which doubles as a shopping center. Argentine visitors make up much of the summer demand in Punta del Este and Colonia, so hotel and ferry prices on the Uruguayan side respond to Argentine holidays as well as local ones. --- ## US Virgin Islands residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/us-virgin-islands-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 72 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 1 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Charlotte Amalie). Networks seen: 1 (Starlink). Median response time: 640 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-VI · Review by: 2026-11-30. The US Virgin Islands use the US dollar (USD) and US postal addresses, yet shopping online from St. Thomas, St. Croix or St. John is not the same as on the mainland. Many retailers exclude the territory from standard shipping or charge more to reach it, and Amazon.com marks some items as unavailable for island addresses, so price and eligibility checks need a local viewpoint. English is the main language, with Virgin Islands Creole widely spoken and Spanish common on St. Croix, where many families have roots in Puerto Rico. Each island works as its own market. St. Thomas takes most cruise traffic through Charlotte Amalie, whose jewelry and liquor shops sell to visitors, and US residents returning from the territory can bring back US$1,600 of goods duty-free, twice the usual allowance. St. Croix is the largest island, while St. John is mostly national park, known for villa rentals and reached by ferry from St. Thomas. Cost-U-Less runs stores on St. Thomas and St. Croix, and the main local publishers are The Virgin Islands Daily News, the St. Thomas Source and The Virgin Islands Consortium. Google is the main search engine, and its local packs and hotel listings differ by island. Google Ads lists the US Virgin Islands as a location separate from the United States, so check that a US campaign has been set to include the territory. There is no general data-protection law. Moving between the islands is part of the price. Ferries run hourly from Red Hook on St. Thomas to Cruz Bay on St. John, with fewer sailings from Charlotte Amalie, and car barges cross during daylight, so a St. John villa or hotel booking usually adds ferry or barge fares. Ferries also link St. Thomas and St. John with Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, a crossing that means clearing customs and immigration in both directions. St. Croix sits about 40 miles south and is mostly reached by short flights, so it is best treated as a separate destination for hotel and car rental checks. --- ## Uzbekistan residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/uzbekistan-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 62 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Tashkent, Samarkand). Networks seen: 5 (Uzbektelekom, Turon Media XK, IPLUS). Median response time: 810 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-UZ · Review by: 2026-11-30. Uzbekistan's online stores work with three forms of text: Uzbek in Latin script, Uzbek in the older Cyrillic script, and Russian, and many sites offer at least two. Prices are in som (UZS). Domestic Uzcard and Humo cards dominate, usually paid through the Payme or Click apps, and buying on instalments is common through services such as Uzum Nasiya. Delivery times and pickup-point coverage vary between Tashkent and regional cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara and Namangan. Uzum Market, launched in 2022, is the largest local marketplace and runs its own delivery network promising one-day delivery across the country, while its sister service Uzum Tezkor delivers restaurant food and groceries. Wildberries and Ozon both sell into Uzbekistan with local sellers and pickup points, so one product often appears on all three with different prices and delivery promises. OLX.uz remains the main classifieds site for cars, flats and jobs, and its flat and car listings are often priced in US dollars rather than som. Yandex Go handles rides, and Telegram channels act as storefronts for many small sellers. Kun.uz, Gazeta.uz and Daryo are leading news sites carrying local advertising. Google and Yandex are both widely used, and Russian-language queries often surface different sites from Uzbek ones. Uzbek searches in Latin and Cyrillic script can also diverge, since older content and many regional pages still use Cyrillic. The Law on Personal Data (No. ZRU-547 of 2019) has required personal data of Uzbek citizens to be stored on servers inside Uzbekistan since 2021. Train seats are among the most closely watched prices in Uzbekistan. Afrosiyob high-speed trains link Tashkent with Samarkand, Bukhara and Karshi, and tickets are sold online by Uzbekistan Railways, often well ahead in the spring and autumn tourist seasons. Uzbekistan Airways and newer carriers compete on domestic routes such as Tashkent to Urgench, the gateway to Khiva, and to Nukus, while shared taxis and buses remain the cheapest links between regional cities. Hotel and guesthouse rates in Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva rise with the tourist seasons and are often quoted in US dollars for foreign visitors, while domestic travellers see som prices. --- ## Vanuatu residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/vanuatu-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 24 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 1 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Port Vila). Networks seen: 1 (Starlink). Median response time: 1400 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 0 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-VU · Review by: 2026-11-30. Vanuatu has three official languages, Bislama, English and French, and its websites reflect that split: government and tourism sites publish in English and often French, while Bislama, the national lingua franca, is common on radio and social media. Prices are in vatu (VUV). Banking runs through ANZ, BSP, BRED and the National Bank of Vanuatu, and Vodafone Vanuatu, one of two mobile networks alongside Digicel, runs the M-VATU mobile money service. Few local shops run their own online checkout, and many businesses use Facebook pages to publish prices and take enquiries. Tourism drives most of the prices outsiders compare. Resorts, tours and transfers on Efate around Port Vila, on Espiritu Santo near Luganville and on Tanna are sold through the Vanuatu Tourism Office's booking site, which runs in English and French, and through large online travel agencies. Air travel changed in 2024, when Air Vanuatu went into liquidation; it now sells domestic flights to islands such as Santo and Tanna, while international fares to Port Vila come from Australian and New Caledonian carriers such as Virgin Australia, Qantas and Aircalin. Local news and advertising run through the Vanuatu Daily Post and VBTC's Radio Vanuatu and Television Blong Vanuatu. Google is the main search engine, and checking in both English and French shows which local operators have pages in each language. Vanuatu's Data Protection and Privacy Act No. 13 of 2024, in force since early 2025, covers both the public and private sectors and reaches some processing outside the country. What a visitor pays in Vanuatu depends heavily on the island. Efate, around Port Vila, holds most hotels, restaurants and tour desks, but the best-known excursions are elsewhere: day and overnight trips to the Mount Yasur volcano on Tanna, dives on the wreck of the SS President Coolidge off Espiritu Santo, and the Naghol land diving on southern Pentecost, now staged weekly from April to June, where spectators have typically paid 10,000 to 12,000 vatu. Air Taxi Vanuatu sells volcano and land-diving tours from Port Vila that combine the flight with the visit, so their prices are best compared with separate flight and tour bookings. --- ## Venezuela residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/venezuela-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 60 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 58 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 20 (Caracas, Charallave, Coro, Valencia, Barquisimeto). Networks seen: 23 (CANTV Servicios, Corporacion Telemic C.A, Starlink). Median response time: 860 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-VE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Venezuelan e-commerce runs on two currencies. The official unit is the bolívar (VES), but many stores, apps and marketplaces show prices in US dollars and convert them to bolívares at the Central Bank of Venezuela's daily rate when the customer pays, so a price series needs the dollar figure, the bolívar figure and the date of the rate. Checkouts reflect the same split: Pago Móvil transfers and local debit cards for bolívares, and cash dollars or Zelle for dollar payments. Yummy, a Venezuelan super-app for delivery, rides and a peer-to-peer marketplace, operates in dozens of cities, and Cashea's buy-now-pay-later plans in interest-free installments are offered by thousands of partner stores online and in person. Farmatodo sells pharmacy and personal-care goods with delivery seven days a week, and Mercado Libre Venezuela is still used for new and used goods, from car parts to phones. The main news sites include El Universal, Últimas Noticias and El Pitazo. Google leads search, but access is uneven: several news and media sites are blocked on some Venezuelan networks, so whether a page or an ad loads can depend on which ISP the visitor uses. Venezuela has no general data-protection law; Article 28 of the Constitution gives people the right to access and correct data held about them, and the Special Law against Computer Crimes of 2001 covers unauthorized access to systems. Delivery in Venezuela changes what a listed price means. Sellers shipping between cities commonly use courier networks such as Zoom and Tealca, which have offices across the country, and parcels are often collected at a courier office rather than delivered to the door. Zoom also offers shipments where the freight is paid at the destination, so the shipping cost never appears in the online price. Inside cities, motorbike couriers and apps set their own delivery fees. Margarita Island, a free port, prices many imported goods differently from the mainland, so a price series should note the city, the delivery method and whether freight is payable on arrival. --- ## Vietnam residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/vietnam-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 67 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 66 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 12 (Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, Bac Kan, Bien Hoa). Networks seen: 6 (Viettel Group, VNPT, FPT Telecom). Median response time: 1070 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-VN · Review by: 2026-11-30. Accented Vietnamese is the norm on storefronts, but many buyers type queries without diacritics, and the two forms can return different results. Prices are in dong (VND), and listings and chats often shorten amounts with 'k' for thousand and 'tr' for triệu (million), which parsers need to handle. Cash on delivery is still widely offered, while MoMo, ZaloPay, VNPAY QR codes and bank transfers are the main digital payment options. Much buying and customer service also runs through Zalo chat and Facebook pages, and delivery times and fees differ between Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and provincial areas. Shopee is the largest marketplace, with TikTok Shop, Lazada and Tiki competing for the rest, and each runs its own double-date sales. Chợ Tốt is the main classifieds site for used goods, vehicles and property, and Batdongsan.com.vn is the reference for real estate listings. GrabFood, ShopeeFood and beFood compete in food delivery. Electronics chains such as Thế Giới Di Động, Điện Máy Xanh and FPT Shop publish online prices that act as benchmarks for phones and appliances, and Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet fares swing sharply before Tết. VnExpress, Tuổi Trẻ, Dân Trí and Thanh Niên are among the most read news sites and carry much of the local display advertising. Google is the dominant search engine, while Cốc Cốc, a Vietnamese browser with its own search engine, keeps a small share. The Law on Personal Data Protection (Law No. 91/2025/QH15), in force since 1 January 2026, replaced Decree 13/2023. Northern and southern Vietnamese use different everyday words, and that splits search behaviour. Hanoi shoppers search for 'lợn' (pork), 'ngô' (corn), 'quả' (fruit) and 'bát' (bowl), while buyers in Ho Chi Minh City type 'heo', 'bắp', 'trái' and 'chén', so keyword lists and product titles need both forms. Some words even change meaning: 'ốm' means ill in the north but thin in the south. Central Vietnam, around Da Nang, Hue and Hoi An, forms a third market with its own accent, dishes and a tourist season that peaks in the dry months, so regional landing pages and ad copy should be checked separately. --- ## Yemen residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/yemen-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 70 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 17 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 2 (Aden, Sanaa). Networks seen: 2 (Starlink, Telecommunication). Median response time: 980 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-YE · Review by: 2026-11-30. Classifieds, social media shop pages and mobile wallets carry most of Yemen's small online market, rather than large e-commerce stores. The rial trades at two very different rates: banknotes issued since 2017 circulate in Aden and the south but are not accepted in Sanaa and the north, so the same product can carry very different YER prices depending on where a listing is posted. Arabic is the language of nearly all storefronts and search. OpenSooq Yemen, with separate sections for Sanaa, Aden and other cities, is the largest general classifieds site for cars, property and electronics. Payments run through mobile wallets such as Jawali, Floosak, ONE Cash and Jaib, which also handle bill payments and transfers between users. Remittances from Yemenis working in Saudi Arabia are a major source of household income, and much of that money reaches families through exchange companies and these wallets. Al-Masdar Online and Aden al-Ghad are among the Arabic news sites where local display placements can be checked. Internet access is limited and costly, and service is split between YemenNet in Sanaa and AdenNet in Aden, so pages load slowly and mobile data is expensive for most users. Sanaa, Aden, Taiz, Hodeidah and Mukalla differ in banknotes, prices and networks, so a check from one city does not describe the others. Google is the dominant search engine. Yemen has no general data-protection law. Yemen imports most of its wheat and many other staples, so shop and listing prices for food, electronics and cars follow the exchange rate in each area rather than any official figure. Money exchange companies in Aden and Sanaa post their own daily buy and sell rates for US dollars and Saudi riyals, the foreign currencies most widely held because of remittances and trade, and those street rates are the practical reference when converting YER prices. For food, fuel and electronics, compare prices within one area over time rather than across the two areas, because the conversion gap can outweigh any real difference in what goods cost. --- ## Zambia residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/zambia-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 63 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 18 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Lusaka). Networks seen: 5 (MTN Zambia, Starlink, Zambia Telecommunications aka ZAMTEL). Median response time: 1090 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 2 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ZM · Review by: 2026-11-30. Zambian websites, shops and search use English, while local languages lead radio, social video and advertising in their regions: Nyanja around Lusaka, Bemba on the Copperbelt, Tonga in the south and Lozi in Western Province. Prices are in Zambian kwacha (ZMW), and imported goods reprice when the kwacha moves against the dollar, while fuel prices are reviewed monthly by the Energy Regulation Board. Airtel Money and MTN MoMo carry most everyday payments, from bills to shop purchases, alongside bank cards in the cities. South African chains such as Shoprite and Pick n Pay run many Zambian supermarkets, and much online selling happens through Facebook groups and WhatsApp rather than a local marketplace. That puts publishers at the centre of ad and content monitoring: Lusaka Times, Mwebantu, News Diggers, the Zambia Daily Mail, the Times of Zambia and the national broadcaster ZNBC. Travel pricing centres on Livingstone and the Victoria Falls and on domestic routes flown by Proflight Zambia. Lusaka and the Copperbelt towns of Kitwe and Ndola differ in stock, prices and delivery. Zambian queries on Google often surface South African and Zimbabwean pages beside local ones, so checks from Zambian connections show what Lusaka users actually get. Personal data falls under the Data Protection Act No. 3 of 2021, supervised by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. Zambian air routes changed when Ndola's Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport opened in October 2021 to serve the Copperbelt. Airlink, Air Tanzania, Ethiopian Airlines and Kenya Airways fly there directly, alongside the state carrier Zambia Airways, so Copperbelt travellers can reach Johannesburg, Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa and Nairobi without routing through Lusaka's Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. Livingstone's Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport handles Victoria Falls traffic. For fare research, the same regional trip can often be priced from three Zambian airports, and hotel rates in Kitwe and Ndola follow mining and business travel rather than tourist seasons. --- ## Zimbabwe residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/locations/zimbabwe-proxies/ Measured 2026-10-01: 68 of 72 test requests exited in the country, from 36 distinct IPs. Cities seen: 1 (Harare). Networks seen: 5 (Starlink, Zimbabwe Online, Telone). Median response time: 880 ms from our gateway in the Netherlands. Sticky sessions: same IP for 30 minutes in 1 of 2 tests. What you control: targeting country, city; sessions rotating, sticky; protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. Evidence: residential-ipv4-probe-2026-10-01-ZW · Review by: 2026-11-30. Prices in Zimbabwe come in two currencies at once. The US dollar is used for most listings and larger purchases, while the Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG, or ZiG), introduced in April 2024, is the local currency, and many shops and sites show both. Payment follows the same split: EcoCash from Econet is the dominant mobile wallet, alongside OneMoney from NetOne and InnBucks, and bank transfers run over ZIPIT. Online stores typically take payment through the Paynow gateway, which connects these wallets with local and international cards. English carries websites and search, while Shona leads social media and radio in Harare and much of the country, and Ndebele around Bulawayo and Matabeleland. For listings, Classifieds.co.zw covers cars, electronics and jobs, and Property.co.zw shows house and land prices in US dollars with a ZiG toggle. News and advertising run through The Herald, NewsDay, NewZimbabwe, ZimLive and H-Metro, with Techzim covering technology and Pindula serving as a local reference and news site. A large diaspora in South Africa and the UK pays for groceries, fees and airtime for family at home, so many Zimbabwean pages serve buyers abroad as well as local ones. Zimbabwean queries on Google, the dominant engine, often compete with South African pages. Personal data falls under the Cyber and Data Protection Act [Chapter 12:07] (No. 5 of 2021), with POTRAZ acting as the Data Protection Authority and licensing data controllers under regulations issued in 2024. Zimbabwe's towns face in different directions. Harare holds most retailers, offices and online sellers. Beitbridge, on the Limpopo, is the busiest road border post in Southern Africa and the main route for goods from South Africa, including parcels carried by informal couriers known as omalayitsha, so supply through that crossing shapes what shops stock. Mutare, on the eastern border, sits on the corridor to Mozambique's port of Beira, while Victoria Falls runs a dollar-priced tourism economy with its own hotels, activities and flights. Bulawayo and the Midlands towns of Gweru and Kwekwe complete the picture, so national price research should sample by town. # Pricing Plans URL: https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ Current prices and availability are published on the pricing page and confirmed in the dashboard. This editorial export does not publish a separate price table. # Provider Comparisons URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/ ## Bright Data alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/bright-data/ Leaving Bright Data, the closest like-for-like is Oxylabs. Decodo is the mid-market balance, Webshare and Proxy-Cheap compete on per-GB price, SOAX prices by destination country, IPRoyal suits irregular usage, and TrueProxies is the option if you want unlimited bandwidth instead of per-GB billing. | # | Provider | Best for | Entry price | Pool | Coverage | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Oxylabs | the closest like-for-like replacement | $6.00/GB on the $15/month Starter plan | 175M+ | 195 countries | | 2 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | mid-market volume without an enterprise commitment | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month) | 115M+ | 195+ locations | | 3 | Webshare | low per-GB rates at high volume | $3.50/GB for 1 GB | 80M+ residential | 195 countries | | 4 | TrueProxies | predictable bills instead of per-GB billing | $1.10 for 1 GB (Residential IPv4 Standard) | 50M+ residential IPv4 | 150+ countries | | 5 | SOAX | work concentrated in specific countries | $5.00/GB Tier 1 on the free Sandbox plan | 12M+ residential and mobile | 195+ locations | | 6 | IPRoyal | small, irregular, or exploratory workloads | $7.00/GB for 1 GB on subscription ($7.35/GB pay-as-you-go) | 64M+ rotating residential | 195+ countries | | 7 | Proxy-Cheap | a low price on a small plan | From $1.50/GB on 3 GB+ plans (the card also shows $2.99/GB, unlabeled) | 80M+ (the page also shows 100M+ IPs online) | 195+ locations | All provider figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources below. - Oxylabs: https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool - Decodo (formerly Smartproxy): https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies - Webshare: https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy - TrueProxies: https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ - SOAX: https://soax.com/pricing - IPRoyal: https://iproyal.com/residential-proxies/ - Proxy-Cheap: https://www.proxy-cheap.com/services/rotating-residential-proxies --- ## Oxylabs alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/oxylabs/ Leaving Oxylabs, Decodo is the usual answer because it removes the commitment floor. Bright Data is the step up in scale, Webshare and Proxy-Cheap cut the per-GB rate, SOAX suits concentrated geographies, IPRoyal drops commitment entirely, and TrueProxies replaces per-GB billing with fixed-cost bandwidth. | # | Provider | Best for | Entry price | Pool | Coverage | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | escaping the commitment floor | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month) | 115M+ | 195+ locations | | 2 | Bright Data | more scale and managed collection | $8.00/GB list, shown as $4.00/GB with a 50% promotion | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | | 3 | Webshare | high volume with in-house engineering | $3.50/GB for 1 GB | 80M+ residential | 195 countries | | 4 | TrueProxies | replacing per-GB billing entirely | $1.10 for 1 GB (Residential IPv4 Standard) | 50M+ residential IPv4 | 150+ countries | | 5 | SOAX | geographically concentrated collection | $5.00/GB Tier 1 on the free Sandbox plan | 12M+ residential and mobile | 195+ locations | | 6 | IPRoyal | dropping commitment entirely | $7.00/GB for 1 GB on subscription ($7.35/GB pay-as-you-go) | 64M+ rotating residential | 195+ countries | | 7 | Proxy-Cheap | a low rate when support is not required | From $1.50/GB on 3 GB+ plans (the card also shows $2.99/GB, unlabeled) | 80M+ (the page also shows 100M+ IPs online) | 195+ locations | All provider figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources below. - Decodo (formerly Smartproxy): https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies - Bright Data: https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies - Webshare: https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy - TrueProxies: https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ - SOAX: https://soax.com/pricing - IPRoyal: https://iproyal.com/residential-proxies/ - Proxy-Cheap: https://www.proxy-cheap.com/services/rotating-residential-proxies --- ## Decodo alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/smartproxy/ Leaving Decodo, Webshare is the answer if volume has outgrown its rate curve. IPRoyal suits irregular usage, TrueProxies replaces per-GB billing with fixed-cost bandwidth, SOAX suits emerging-market traffic, Oxylabs adds enterprise guarantees, Proxy-Cheap is cheapest, and Bright Data is the scale option. | # | Provider | Best for | Entry price | Pool | Coverage | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Webshare | cutting the per-GB rate as volume grows | $3.50/GB for 1 GB | 80M+ residential | 195 countries | | 2 | IPRoyal | usage too irregular for a monthly plan | $7.00/GB for 1 GB on subscription ($7.35/GB pay-as-you-go) | 64M+ rotating residential | 195+ countries | | 3 | TrueProxies | workloads where throughput matters more than bytes | $1.10 for 1 GB (Residential IPv4 Standard) | 50M+ residential IPv4 | 150+ countries | | 4 | SOAX | traffic weighted to emerging markets | $5.00/GB Tier 1 on the free Sandbox plan | 12M+ residential and mobile | 195+ locations | | 5 | Oxylabs | moving up to enterprise guarantees | $6.00/GB on the $15/month Starter plan | 175M+ | 195 countries | | 6 | Proxy-Cheap | a low rate at mid volume | From $1.50/GB on 3 GB+ plans (the card also shows $2.99/GB, unlabeled) | 80M+ (the page also shows 100M+ IPs online) | 195+ locations | | 7 | Bright Data | scale and managed collection, if budget allows | $8.00/GB list, shown as $4.00/GB with a 50% promotion | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | All provider figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources below. - Webshare: https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy - IPRoyal: https://iproyal.com/residential-proxies/ - TrueProxies: https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ - SOAX: https://soax.com/pricing - Oxylabs: https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool - Proxy-Cheap: https://www.proxy-cheap.com/services/rotating-residential-proxies - Bright Data: https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies --- ## NetNut alternatives for residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/netnut/ As of November 6, 2026, netnut.io displays a seizure notice from the FBI in place of NetNut’s website. For teams that need residential proxies from another provider, Oxylabs and Bright Data suit enterprise contracts, Decodo and Webshare suit self-service per-GB buying, SOAX prices by country, and TrueProxies sells unlimited traffic by the hour. Published by TrueProxies, which sells residential proxies and is one of the providers compared. Competitor figures were read from each vendor’s own pages on November 6, 2026. ### What does netnut.io show as of November 6, 2026? The page at netnut.io is headed “This website has been seized”. It states that the domain has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in coordination with the Department of Justice and IRS Criminal Investigation. A DNS lookup on November 6, 2026 lists ns1.fbi.seized.gov and ns2.fbi.seized.gov as the name servers for netnut.io. KrebsOnSecurity reported the seizure on July 2, 2026, including a statement from NetNut’s parent company, Alarum Technologies. This page reports only what those sources show. We have not tested NetNut’s proxy gateways and cannot say whether existing NetNut services still work. - netnut.io, checked November 6, 2026: https://netnut.io/ - KrebsOnSecurity report, July 2, 2026: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/fbi-seizes-netnut-proxy-platform-popa-botnet/ | # | Provider | For | Pricing model | Entry price | Best published rate | Pool | Coverage | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Oxylabs | teams that need an enterprise contract and support | Per GB on monthly plans; the rate falls with volume, and unused credits expire each billing cycle | $6.00/GB on the Starter plan ($15/month) | $2.50/GB from 1 TB; Enterprise plans from $2,500/month | 175M+ | 195 countries | https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool, https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool | | 2 | Bright Data | the largest advertised pool and managed data collection | Per GB, pay-as-you-go or monthly commitment | $8.00/GB pay-as-you-go list; $4.00/GB with a 3-month 50% coupon | $5.00/GB list on the $1,999/month plan (798 GB included) | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies | | 3 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | self-service plans with fine geo-targeting and a trial | Per GB on monthly plans, or pay-as-you-go | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month); $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go | $2.00/GB on the 1 TB Enterprise plan; $2.75/GB on the 100 GB Regular plan | 115M+ | 195+ locations | https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing | | 4 | SOAX | traffic that exits mostly in lower-cost countries | Per GB in credits; the rate depends on the plan and the exit IP’s country tier | $5.00/GB tier 1 or $2.00/GB tier 3 on the free Sandbox plan | From $0.85/GB tier 1 and from $0.35/GB tier 3 on Enterprise ($3,000/month) | Over 12 million residential and mobile | 195+ locations | https://soax.com/pricing, https://soax.com/proxies/residential, https://soax.com/ | | 5 | TrueProxies | a bill that does not depend on traffic volume | Traffic packs per GB that never expire, or unlimited-traffic plans priced by speed: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly | $1.10 for a 1 GB Standard traffic pack | $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB Standard traffic pack; unlimited traffic from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | 50M+ residential IPv4 (Standard traffic packs) | 150+ countries (Standard traffic packs) | https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ | | 6 | Webshare | self-service per-GB plans that scale to 3,000 GB | Per GB, billed monthly by plan size | $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan | $1.40/GB on the 3,000 GB plan ($4,200/month) | 80M+ | 195 countries | https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy | Competitor figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources in the table. --- ## IPRoyal alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/iproyal/ Leaving IPRoyal, Webshare and Decodo list lower per-GB rates at small volumes, TrueProxies adds hourly unlimited plans and smaller traffic packs whose traffic also never expires, SOAX prices by country, and Oxylabs and Bright Data suit enterprise buyers. Keep IPRoyal if its larger pool and 7-day sticky sessions matter most to you. Published by TrueProxies, which sells residential proxies and is one of the providers compared. Competitor figures were read from each vendor’s own pages on November 6, 2026. | # | Provider | For | Pricing model | Entry price | Best published rate | Pool | Coverage | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Webshare | lower per-GB rates on self-service plans | Per GB, billed monthly by plan size | $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan | $1.40/GB on the 3,000 GB plan ($4,200/month) | 80M+ | 195 countries | https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy | | 2 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | a low entry price with a trial and fine targeting | Per GB on monthly plans, or pay-as-you-go | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month); $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go | $2.00/GB on the 1 TB Enterprise plan; $2.75/GB on the 100 GB Regular plan | 115M+ | 195+ locations | https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing | | 3 | TrueProxies | small traffic packs, or unlimited traffic billed by time | Traffic packs per GB that never expire, or unlimited-traffic plans priced by speed: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly | $1.10 for a 1 GB Standard traffic pack | $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB Standard traffic pack; unlimited traffic from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | 50M+ residential IPv4 (Standard traffic packs) | 150+ countries (Standard traffic packs) | https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ | | 4 | SOAX | traffic that exits mostly in lower-cost countries | Per GB in credits; the rate depends on the plan and the exit IP’s country tier | $5.00/GB tier 1 or $2.00/GB tier 3 on the free Sandbox plan | From $0.85/GB tier 1 and from $0.35/GB tier 3 on Enterprise ($3,000/month) | Over 12 million residential and mobile | 195+ locations | https://soax.com/pricing, https://soax.com/proxies/residential, https://soax.com/ | | 5 | Oxylabs | moving up to an enterprise contract | Per GB on monthly plans; the rate falls with volume, and unused credits expire each billing cycle | $6.00/GB on the Starter plan ($15/month) | $2.50/GB from 1 TB; Enterprise plans from $2,500/month | 175M+ | 195 countries | https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool, https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool | | 6 | Bright Data | the largest pool and managed data collection | Per GB, pay-as-you-go or monthly commitment | $8.00/GB pay-as-you-go list; $4.00/GB with a 3-month 50% coupon | $5.00/GB list on the $1,999/month plan (798 GB included) | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies | Competitor figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources in the table. --- ## Webshare alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/webshare/ Leaving Webshare, Decodo offers a 3-day trial and a larger advertised pool, IPRoyal sells traffic that never expires, SOAX prices by country, TrueProxies adds unlimited plans billed by time and traffic packs that never expire, and Oxylabs and Bright Data suit enterprise buyers who need a contract or a bigger pool. Published by TrueProxies, which sells residential proxies and is one of the providers compared. Competitor figures were read from each vendor’s own pages on November 6, 2026. | # | Provider | For | Pricing model | Entry price | Best published rate | Pool | Coverage | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | testing before you pay for a month | Per GB on monthly plans, or pay-as-you-go | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month); $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go | $2.00/GB on the 1 TB Enterprise plan; $2.75/GB on the 100 GB Regular plan | 115M+ | 195+ locations | https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing | | 2 | IPRoyal | irregular use, with traffic that never expires | Per GB, subscription or pay-as-you-go; traffic advertised as never expiring | $7.00/GB for 1 GB on subscription; $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go | $1.75/GB on custom subscription plans from 10 TB (10,000 GB) | 64M+ | 195+ countries | https://iproyal.com/pricing/residential-proxies/ | | 3 | SOAX | traffic that exits mostly in lower-cost countries | Per GB in credits; the rate depends on the plan and the exit IP’s country tier | $5.00/GB tier 1 or $2.00/GB tier 3 on the free Sandbox plan | From $0.85/GB tier 1 and from $0.35/GB tier 3 on Enterprise ($3,000/month) | Over 12 million residential and mobile | 195+ locations | https://soax.com/pricing, https://soax.com/proxies/residential, https://soax.com/ | | 4 | TrueProxies | unlimited traffic billed by time, or traffic packs that never expire | Traffic packs per GB that never expire, or unlimited-traffic plans priced by speed: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly | $1.10 for a 1 GB Standard traffic pack | $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB Standard traffic pack; unlimited traffic from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | 50M+ residential IPv4 (Standard traffic packs) | 150+ countries (Standard traffic packs) | https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ | | 5 | Oxylabs | enterprise support and a larger pool | Per GB on monthly plans; the rate falls with volume, and unused credits expire each billing cycle | $6.00/GB on the Starter plan ($15/month) | $2.50/GB from 1 TB; Enterprise plans from $2,500/month | 175M+ | 195 countries | https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool, https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool | | 6 | Bright Data | the largest pool and managed data collection | Per GB, pay-as-you-go or monthly commitment | $8.00/GB pay-as-you-go list; $4.00/GB with a 3-month 50% coupon | $5.00/GB list on the $1,999/month plan (798 GB included) | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies | Competitor figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources in the table. --- ## SOAX alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/soax/ Leaving SOAX, Webshare and Decodo list per-GB rates with no country tiers, IPRoyal sells traffic that never expires, TrueProxies adds unlimited plans billed by time and a 1-hour trial, Oxylabs suits enterprise contracts, and Bright Data has the largest advertised pool. Map your traffic by exit country before comparing. Published by TrueProxies, which sells residential proxies and is one of the providers compared. Competitor figures were read from each vendor’s own pages on November 6, 2026. | # | Provider | For | Pricing model | Entry price | Best published rate | Pool | Coverage | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Webshare | one self-service rate for every country | Per GB, billed monthly by plan size | $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan | $1.40/GB on the 3,000 GB plan ($4,200/month) | 80M+ | 195 countries | https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy | | 2 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | fine targeting on small plans, and a trial | Per GB on monthly plans, or pay-as-you-go | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month); $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go | $2.00/GB on the 1 TB Enterprise plan; $2.75/GB on the 100 GB Regular plan | 115M+ | 195+ locations | https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing | | 3 | IPRoyal | occasional use, with traffic that never expires | Per GB, subscription or pay-as-you-go; traffic advertised as never expiring | $7.00/GB for 1 GB on subscription; $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go | $1.75/GB on custom subscription plans from 10 TB (10,000 GB) | 64M+ | 195+ countries | https://iproyal.com/pricing/residential-proxies/ | | 4 | TrueProxies | unlimited traffic billed by time, or one per-GB rate for every country | Traffic packs per GB that never expire, or unlimited-traffic plans priced by speed: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly | $1.10 for a 1 GB Standard traffic pack | $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB Standard traffic pack; unlimited traffic from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | 50M+ residential IPv4 (Standard traffic packs) | 150+ countries (Standard traffic packs) | https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ | | 5 | Oxylabs | enterprise contracts with account management | Per GB on monthly plans; the rate falls with volume, and unused credits expire each billing cycle | $6.00/GB on the Starter plan ($15/month) | $2.50/GB from 1 TB; Enterprise plans from $2,500/month | 175M+ | 195 countries | https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool, https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool | | 6 | Bright Data | the largest advertised pool | Per GB, pay-as-you-go or monthly commitment | $8.00/GB pay-as-you-go list; $4.00/GB with a 3-month 50% coupon | $5.00/GB list on the $1,999/month plan (798 GB included) | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies | Competitor figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources in the table. --- ## Proxy-Cheap alternatives and competitors URL: https://trueproxies.com/alternatives/proxy-cheap/ Leaving Proxy-Cheap, Webshare and Decodo add ZIP and ASN targeting at higher per-GB rates, TrueProxies sells Lite traffic packs below Proxy-Cheap’s listed rates and unlimited plans billed by time, IPRoyal advertises traffic that never expires and 7-day sticky sessions, SOAX undercuts it only for lower-cost countries at Scale or Enterprise volume, and Oxylabs and Bright Data suit enterprise buyers. Few providers here undercut Proxy-Cheap’s $0.78/GB. Published by TrueProxies, which sells residential proxies and is one of the providers compared. Competitor figures were read from each vendor’s own pages on November 6, 2026. ### What do Proxy-Cheap’s pages show as of November 6, 2026? The rotating residential page lists three plan cards: 3 GB+ starting at $1.50/GB, 4 GB+ starting at $1.20/GB and 51 GB+ starting at $0.78/GB. Each card also shows a second price without a label, $2.99/GB on the first two and $2.60/GB on the third. The page says pay-as-you-go is available but shows no rate. It lists country and city targeting, HTTP and SOCKS5, sticky and rotating sessions, and under 100 Mbps on every plan card. It gives two pool figures, 80M+ IP addresses and 100M+ IPs online, across 195+ countries, and lists Visa, Maestro, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal and CoinGate for payment. The page does not say whether traffic expires and mentions no free trial. The refund policy says a full refund may be issued on bandwidth plans if no more than 20% of the purchased bandwidth has been used. - Proxy-Cheap rotating residential proxies, checked November 6, 2026: https://www.proxy-cheap.com/services/rotating-residential-proxies - Proxy-Cheap refund policy, checked November 6, 2026: https://www.proxy-cheap.com/refund-policy | # | Provider | For | Pricing model | Entry price | Best published rate | Pool | Coverage | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Webshare | self-service per-GB plans with finer targeting | Per GB, billed monthly by plan size | $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan | $1.40/GB on the 3,000 GB plan ($4,200/month) | 80M+ | 195 countries | https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy | | 2 | Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) | fine targeting, a trial and a money-back window | Per GB on monthly plans, or pay-as-you-go | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month); $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go | $2.00/GB on the 1 TB Enterprise plan; $2.75/GB on the 100 GB Regular plan | 115M+ | 195+ locations | https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing | | 3 | TrueProxies | a lower per-GB rate on traffic that never expires, or unlimited traffic by time | Traffic packs per GB that never expire, or unlimited-traffic plans priced by speed: hourly, daily, weekly or monthly | $1.10 for a 1 GB Standard traffic pack | $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB Standard traffic pack; unlimited traffic from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | 50M+ residential IPv4 (Standard traffic packs) | 150+ countries (Standard traffic packs) | https://trueproxies.com/pricing/ | | 4 | IPRoyal | traffic that never expires and long sticky sessions | Per GB, subscription or pay-as-you-go; traffic advertised as never expiring | $7.00/GB for 1 GB on subscription; $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go | $1.75/GB on custom subscription plans from 10 TB (10,000 GB) | 64M+ | 195+ countries | https://iproyal.com/pricing/residential-proxies/ | | 5 | SOAX | traffic that exits mostly in lower-cost countries | Per GB in credits; the rate depends on the plan and the exit IP’s country tier | $5.00/GB tier 1 or $2.00/GB tier 3 on the free Sandbox plan | From $0.85/GB tier 1 and from $0.35/GB tier 3 on Enterprise ($3,000/month) | Over 12 million residential and mobile | 195+ locations | https://soax.com/pricing, https://soax.com/proxies/residential, https://soax.com/ | | 6 | Oxylabs | an enterprise contract and a larger pool | Per GB on monthly plans; the rate falls with volume, and unused credits expire each billing cycle | $6.00/GB on the Starter plan ($15/month) | $2.50/GB from 1 TB; Enterprise plans from $2,500/month | 175M+ | 195 countries | https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool, https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool | | 7 | Bright Data | the largest advertised pool and managed data collection | Per GB, pay-as-you-go or monthly commitment | $8.00/GB pay-as-you-go list; $4.00/GB with a 3-month 50% coupon | $5.00/GB list on the $1,999/month plan (798 GB included) | 400M+ rotating residential | 195 countries | https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies | Competitor figures verified 2026-11-06 from the sources in the table. # Head-to-head Comparisons URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/ ## TrueProxies vs Oxylabs: residential proxies compared URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/trueproxies-vs-oxylabs/ Oxylabs is the larger, enterprise-grade network: 175M+ residential IPs in 195 countries, ZIP, coordinate and ASN targeting, and Enterprise plans from $2,500 a month. TrueProxies costs less per GB, from $0.50 for 1 GB, and its traffic never expires, where Oxylabs credits expire at the end of each billing cycle. Choose Oxylabs for scale, targeting depth and an enterprise relationship; choose TrueProxies for small or uneven volumes and for unlimited-traffic plans. Published by TrueProxies, one of the two providers compared. Competitor figures were read from the vendor's own pages on November 6, 2026; ours are our list prices on the same date. | | TrueProxies | Oxylabs | | --- | --- | --- | | Entry price | $0.50 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Lite, $1.10 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Standard, or Unlimited Bandwidth from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | $6/GB; the Starter plan is $15/month | | Lowest published rate | $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB of Lite; $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB of Standard | $2.50/GB from 1,000 GB; Enterprise plans start at $2,500/month | | Billing model | Traffic packs per GB, bought once (Standard, Premium and Lite), or unlimited traffic priced by speed for a set term (Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro) | Monthly plans; residential traffic billed per GB at $6, $5, $4 or $2.50/GB as volume grows | | Traffic expiry | Traffic never expires on traffic packs. Unlimited plans run for the term you buy. | Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle, unless carried over in an upgrade | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap | One-time $5 welcome credit toward any product | | Targeting | Standard and Premium: country, region, city and ASN. Lite: country. Unlimited Bandwidth: country and city. Unlimited Pro: country, and city in major cities. | Continent, country, state, city, ZIP, coordinates and ASN | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. UDP over SOCKS5 on Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (ports 443 and 19302 only on Unlimited Pro). | HTTP(S), HTTP3 and SOCKS5 | | Payment methods | Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT), or the prepaid wallet | Not stated on the pricing page | | Advertised pool | Standard: 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. Unlimited Pro: 2.5M+ residential IPs in 205+ countries. | 175M+ residential IPs in 195 countries | | Refunds | Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Weekly and monthly plans and traffic packs are refunded only for a verified technical issue on our side, prorated. | Self-service purchases are non-refundable | Oxylabs figures verified 2026-11-06 from: - Oxylabs residential proxy pricing: https://oxylabs.io/pricing/residential-proxy-pool - Oxylabs residential proxy pool: https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool ### When Oxylabs is the better choice - You need the scale. Oxylabs advertises 175M+ residential IPs in 195 countries. Residential IPv4 Standard has 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. - You target finely. Oxylabs offers continent, country, state, city, ZIP, coordinate and ASN targeting. TrueProxies has no ZIP or coordinate targeting. - You want an enterprise relationship. Oxylabs sells Enterprise plans with tailored terms and support, from $2,500 a month. ### When TrueProxies fits - Your volume is small or uneven. Traffic never expires, so a 50 GB pack bought today still works next quarter. Oxylabs credits lapse at the end of each billing cycle. - Price per GB matters more than pool size. Lite costs $0.50 down to $0.45/GB with country targeting; Standard costs $1.10 down to $0.60/GB with country, region, city and ASN targeting. Oxylabs' lowest published rate is $2.50/GB, from 1,000 GB. - Your traffic is heavy or hard to predict. Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro charge by speed and term, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, so the bill does not grow with the bytes you move. - You want to test before paying. The free trial is 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap; Oxylabs gives a $5 credit. --- ## TrueProxies vs Bright Data: residential proxies compared URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/trueproxies-vs-bright-data/ Bright Data has the largest advertised network of the providers we compare, 400M+ residential IPs in 195 countries, with ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting and a stated 99.99% uptime SLA. It also costs the most: $8/GB pay-as-you-go at list price and $5/GB on its $1,999 monthly plan. TrueProxies sells Standard and Lite traffic packs from $0.45 to $1.10 per GB that never expire, or unlimited traffic by speed. Choose Bright Data for scale and an SLA; choose TrueProxies when cost per GB or a fixed bill matters more. Published by TrueProxies, one of the two providers compared. Competitor figures were read from the vendor's own pages on November 6, 2026; ours are our list prices on the same date. | | TrueProxies | Bright Data | | --- | --- | --- | | Entry price | $0.50 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Lite, $1.10 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Standard, or Unlimited Bandwidth from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | $8/GB pay-as-you-go list; $4/GB with code RESIGB50 for 3 months | | Lowest published rate | $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB of Lite; $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB of Standard | $5/GB list on the $1,999/month plan (798 GB included); custom Enterprise rates | | Billing model | Traffic packs per GB, bought once (Standard, Premium and Lite), or unlimited traffic priced by speed for a set term (Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro) | Pay-as-you-go, or monthly plans of $499 (141 GB), $999 (332 GB) and $1,999 (798 GB) | | Traffic expiry | Traffic never expires on traffic packs. Unlimited plans run for the term you buy. | A monthly commitment does not roll over to the next month | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap | Trial traffic is listed but not billed; terms not stated. First deposit matched up to $500 | | Targeting | Standard and Premium: country, region, city and ASN. Lite: country. Unlimited Bandwidth: country and city. Unlimited Pro: country, and city in major cities. | Country, state, city, ZIP, carrier and ASN | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. UDP over SOCKS5 on Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (ports 443 and 19302 only on Unlimited Pro). | HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 | | Payment methods | Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT), or the prepaid wallet | Cards, PayPal, Payoneer, Alipay, Google Pay and wire transfer; AWS and Azure Marketplace | | Advertised pool | Standard: 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. Unlimited Pro: 2.5M+ residential IPs in 205+ countries. | 400M+ residential IPs in 195 countries | | Refunds | Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Weekly and monthly plans and traffic packs are refunded only for a verified technical issue on our side, prorated. | Not stated on the pricing page | Bright Data figures verified 2026-11-06 from: - Bright Data residential proxy pricing: https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/residential-proxies - Bright Data residential proxies: https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies ### When Bright Data is the better choice - Pool size or coverage is the constraint. Bright Data advertises 400M+ residential IPs in 195 countries, more than any provider we compare. Residential IPv4 Standard has 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. - You need an SLA. Bright Data's residential page says its SLA guarantees 99.99% uptime. TrueProxies offers no SLA: its Terms set a 99.9% uptime target with no service-level commitment or compensation. - You target by ZIP code or carrier. Bright Data targets by country, state, city, ZIP, carrier and ASN. TrueProxies Standard and Premium stop at city and ASN. - You buy through PayPal or a cloud marketplace. Bright Data takes cards, PayPal, Payoneer, Alipay, Google Pay and wire transfers, and sells through AWS and Azure Marketplace. ### When TrueProxies fits - The bill is the problem. Bright Data's lowest published list rate is $5/GB, on a $1,999 monthly plan. Standard goes down to $0.60/GB and Lite to $0.45/GB, with no monthly commitment. - Traffic arrives in bursts. TrueProxies traffic packs never expire, while a Bright Data monthly commitment does not roll over. - You want a fixed price for heavy traffic. Unlimited Bandwidth starts at $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps and Unlimited Pro at $10.99/day at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap. - You pay in crypto. TrueProxies takes Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT). Crypto is not among the methods on Bright Data's pricing page. --- ## TrueProxies vs Decodo: residential proxies compared URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/trueproxies-vs-decodo/ Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, is the self-service middle of the market: 115M+ IPs in 195+ locations, ZIP and ASN targeting on every plan, a 3-day 100 MB trial and a 14-day money-back option. Its rates run from $4/GB pay-as-you-go down to $2/GB on a 1,000 GB Enterprise plan. TrueProxies costs less per GB, with traffic that never expires and unlimited-traffic plans, but has a smaller pool and no ZIP targeting. Published by TrueProxies, one of the two providers compared. Competitor figures were read from the vendor's own pages on November 6, 2026; ours are our list prices on the same date. | | TrueProxies | Decodo | | --- | --- | --- | | Entry price | $0.50 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Lite, $1.10 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Standard, or Unlimited Bandwidth from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan ($11.25/month); $4/GB pay-as-you-go | | Lowest published rate | $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB of Lite; $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB of Standard | $2/GB on the 1,000 GB Enterprise plan ($2,000/month); $2.75/GB on the 100 GB plan | | Billing model | Traffic packs per GB, bought once (Standard, Premium and Lite), or unlimited traffic priced by speed for a set term (Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro) | Monthly plans by GB, or pay-as-you-go from the wallet one GB at a time | | Traffic expiry | Traffic never expires on traffic packs. Unlimited plans run for the term you buy. | Not stated on the pricing page; a paid plan lasts to the end of its billing cycle | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap | 100 MB for 3 days; the chosen plan starts afterwards unless cancelled | | Targeting | Standard and Premium: country, region, city and ASN. Lite: country. Unlimited Bandwidth: country and city. Unlimited Pro: country, and city in major cities. | Continent, country, state, city, ZIP and ASN | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. UDP over SOCKS5 on Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (ports 443 and 19302 only on Unlimited Pro). | HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 | | Payment methods | Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT), or the prepaid wallet | Cards, PayPal, Alipay, Google Pay, Apple Pay and crypto | | Advertised pool | Standard: 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. Unlimited Pro: 2.5M+ residential IPs in 205+ countries. | 115M+ IPs in 195+ locations | | Refunds | Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Weekly and monthly plans and traffic packs are refunded only for a verified technical issue on our side, prorated. | 14-day money-back on the first purchase, with no more than 20% of the traffic used and no trial taken | Decodo figures verified 2026-11-06 from: - Decodo residential proxy pricing: https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing ### When Decodo is the better choice - You need ZIP or continent targeting on a small plan. Decodo includes continent, country, state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting from its 3 GB plan. TrueProxies has no ZIP targeting. - You want a refund window. Decodo offers 14-day money-back on a first purchase. TrueProxies refunds only for a verified technical issue on its side. - The pool matters. Decodo advertises 115M+ IPs. Residential IPv4 Standard has 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. - You pay with PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Decodo takes PayPal, Alipay, Google Pay and Apple Pay as well as cards and crypto. TrueProxies takes Visa, Mastercard and crypto. ### When TrueProxies fits - Cost per GB. Standard runs $1.10 down to $0.60/GB and Lite $0.50 down to $0.45/GB, below Decodo's lowest published $2/GB, which needs a $2,000 monthly plan. - Usage is irregular. Decodo plans are monthly subscriptions. TrueProxies traffic packs are bought once and never expire. - Heavy traffic at a fixed price. Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro have no traffic cap and are priced by speed, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps. --- ## TrueProxies vs Webshare: residential proxies compared URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/trueproxies-vs-webshare/ Webshare sells rotating residential proxies on monthly plans from $3.50/GB on 1 GB to $1.40/GB on 3,000 GB, with 80M+ IPs in 195 countries and ZIP and ASN targeting. Residential IPv4 Standard costs less per GB at every size, $1.10 down to $0.60/GB, its traffic never expires, and TrueProxies takes crypto. Webshare has the larger pool, finer targeting and a wider choice of cards. Published by TrueProxies, one of the two providers compared. Competitor figures were read from the vendor's own pages on November 6, 2026; ours are our list prices on the same date. | | TrueProxies | Webshare | | --- | --- | --- | | Entry price | $0.50 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Lite, $1.10 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Standard, or Unlimited Bandwidth from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | $3.50/GB on the 1 GB plan ($3.50/month) | | Lowest published rate | $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB of Lite; $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB of Standard | $1.40/GB on the 3,000 GB plan ($4,200/month) | | Billing model | Traffic packs per GB, bought once (Standard, Premium and Lite), or unlimited traffic priced by speed for a set term (Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro) | Monthly plans by GB that renew automatically; the rate falls with plan size | | Traffic expiry | Traffic never expires on traffic packs. Unlimited plans run for the term you buy. | Not stated on the page; plans are billed monthly | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap | No trial period; a free plan of 10 proxies | | Targeting | Standard and Premium: country, region, city and ASN. Lite: country. Unlimited Bandwidth: country and city. Unlimited Pro: country, and city in major cities. | Country, state, city, ZIP and ASN | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. UDP over SOCKS5 on Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (ports 443 and 19302 only on Unlimited Pro). | HTTP and SOCKS5 | | Payment methods | Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT), or the prepaid wallet | Cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and others); Google Pay and Apple Pay on mobile | | Advertised pool | Standard: 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. Unlimited Pro: 2.5M+ residential IPs in 205+ countries. | 80M+ residential IPs in 195 countries | | Refunds | Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Weekly and monthly plans and traffic packs are refunded only for a verified technical issue on our side, prorated. | Within 2 days of payment, while rotating residential use is below 0.1 GB | Webshare figures verified 2026-11-06 from: - Webshare residential proxy pricing: https://www.webshare.io/residential-proxy ### When Webshare is the better choice - You target by ZIP or state. Webshare targets by country, state, city, ZIP and ASN on self-service plans. TrueProxies has no ZIP targeting. - The pool matters. Webshare advertises 80M+ residential IPs. Residential IPv4 Standard has 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. - You pay with a card other than Visa or Mastercard. Webshare takes American Express, Discover, Diners, UnionPay, JCB, Cartes Bancaires and Interac, plus Google Pay and Apple Pay on mobile. ### When TrueProxies fits - Price per GB. Standard runs $1.10 down to $0.60/GB and Lite $0.50 down to $0.45/GB, under Webshare's lowest $1.40/GB on a $4,200 monthly plan. - Traffic that does not renew. TrueProxies traffic packs are bought once and never expire, instead of a monthly plan that renews. - You pay in crypto. TrueProxies takes Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT). Crypto is not among the methods on Webshare's page. - Unlimited traffic. Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro are priced by speed, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, with no charge per GB. --- ## TrueProxies vs IPRoyal: residential proxies compared URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/trueproxies-vs-iproyal/ IPRoyal and TrueProxies both sell residential traffic that never expires, so the comparison comes down to price, pool and session length. IPRoyal advertises 64M+ IPs in 195+ countries and sticky sessions of up to 7 days, at $7/GB for 1 GB down to $1.75/GB from 10 TB. TrueProxies Standard costs $1.10 down to $0.60/GB from a 50M+ residential IPs pool, adds ASN targeting, and sells unlimited-traffic plans. Published by TrueProxies, one of the two providers compared. Competitor figures were read from the vendor's own pages on November 6, 2026; ours are our list prices on the same date. | | TrueProxies | IPRoyal | | --- | --- | --- | | Entry price | $0.50 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Lite, $1.10 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Standard, or Unlimited Bandwidth from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | $7/GB for 1 GB on subscription; $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go | | Lowest published rate | $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB of Lite; $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB of Standard | $1.75/GB on custom subscription plans from 10 TB (10,000 GB); $1.84/GB pay-as-you-go | | Billing model | Traffic packs per GB, bought once (Standard, Premium and Lite), or unlimited traffic priced by speed for a set term (Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro) | Per GB, by subscription (5% below pay-as-you-go) or pay-as-you-go | | Traffic expiry | Traffic never expires on traffic packs. Unlimited plans run for the term you buy. | Traffic is advertised as never expiring | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap | A trial button is shown; terms not stated | | Targeting | Standard and Premium: country, region, city and ASN. Lite: country. Unlimited Bandwidth: country and city. Unlimited Pro: country, and city in major cities. | Country, state and city | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. UDP over SOCKS5 on Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (ports 443 and 19302 only on Unlimited Pro). | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 | | Payment methods | Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT), or the prepaid wallet | Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Alipay and crypto | | Advertised pool | Standard: 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. Unlimited Pro: 2.5M+ residential IPs in 205+ countries. | 64M+ IPs in 195+ countries | | Refunds | Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Weekly and monthly plans and traffic packs are refunded only for a verified technical issue on our side, prorated. | Not stated on the pricing page | IPRoyal figures verified 2026-11-06 from: - IPRoyal residential proxy pricing: https://iproyal.com/pricing/residential-proxies/ - IPRoyal residential proxies: https://iproyal.com/residential-proxies/ ### When IPRoyal is the better choice - You need long sticky sessions. IPRoyal allows sticky sessions of up to 7 days. A TrueProxies residential sticky session keeps its IP for up to 24 hours; for longer, Static ISP IPs are yours alone for a day, a week or a month. - The pool matters. IPRoyal advertises 64M+ IPs in 195+ countries. Residential IPv4 Standard has 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. - You pay with PayPal or Alipay. IPRoyal takes PayPal, Alipay, American Express and Discover as well as Visa, Mastercard and crypto. ### When TrueProxies fits - Price below 10 TB. At 1 GB IPRoyal costs $7 and Standard $1.10. IPRoyal's $1.75/GB needs a custom plan from 10 TB, while Standard reaches $0.60/GB at 5,000 GB. - ASN targeting. IPRoyal's page lists country, state and city targeting. Standard and Premium add ASN, alongside country, region and city. - Unlimited traffic. Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro are priced by speed, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, with no charge per GB. - A trial with stated terms. The TrueProxies free trial is 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap. --- ## TrueProxies vs SOAX: residential proxies compared URL: https://trueproxies.com/compare/trueproxies-vs-soax/ SOAX charges per GB by the country of the exit IP, in three tiers, and its rates fall steeply with plan size: tier 1 from $5/GB on the free Sandbox plan to from $0.85/GB on the $3,000 Enterprise plan, and tier 3 down to $0.35/GB. Its credits expire 60 days after they are added, and it has no free trial. TrueProxies charges one rate for every country, its traffic never expires, and Lite, at $0.50 down to $0.45/GB, costs less than every SOAX rate except Enterprise tier 3. Published by TrueProxies, one of the two providers compared. Competitor figures were read from the vendor's own pages on November 6, 2026; ours are our list prices on the same date. | | TrueProxies | SOAX | | --- | --- | --- | | Entry price | $0.50 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Lite, $1.10 for 1 GB of Residential IPv4 Standard, or Unlimited Bandwidth from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | Free Sandbox plan at $5/GB tier 1, $4/GB tier 2, $2/GB tier 3; Builder $200/month at $3/GB tier 1 | | Lowest published rate | $0.45/GB on 1,000 GB of Lite; $0.60/GB on 5,000 GB of Standard | From $0.85/GB tier 1 and from $0.35/GB tier 3 on Enterprise ($3,000/month) | | Billing model | Traffic packs per GB, bought once (Standard, Premium and Lite), or unlimited traffic priced by speed for a set term (Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro) | Credits per GB; the rate depends on the plan and the exit country's tier. One rate across residential and mobile | | Traffic expiry | Traffic never expires on traffic packs. Unlimited plans run for the term you buy. | Credits expire 60 days after they are added (12 months on annual plans) | | Trial | Free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps, with no traffic cap | No free trial; the Sandbox plan has no fee | | Targeting | Standard and Premium: country, region, city and ASN. Lite: country. Unlimited Bandwidth: country and city. Unlimited Pro: country, and city in major cities. | Country, region, city and ISP; ASN and ZIP from the Scale plan | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. UDP over SOCKS5 on Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (ports 443 and 19302 only on Unlimited Pro). | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 | | Payment methods | Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT), or the prepaid wallet | Credit and debit cards; bank transfer for approved business accounts | | Advertised pool | Standard: 50M+ residential IPs in 150+ countries. Unlimited Pro: 2.5M+ residential IPs in 205+ countries. | Over 12 million residential and mobile IPs in 195+ countries | | Refunds | Hourly and daily plans are non-refundable. Weekly and monthly plans and traffic packs are refunded only for a verified technical issue on our side, prorated. | Generally non-refundable | SOAX figures verified 2026-11-06 from: - SOAX pricing: https://soax.com/pricing - SOAX residential proxies: https://soax.com/proxies/residential ### When SOAX is the better choice - Your traffic exits in cheaper countries at volume. If most of it is tier 3 and you buy at Enterprise volume, SOAX's $0.35/GB is below any TrueProxies rate; Lite stops at $0.45/GB. - You target by ISP, or by ZIP at scale. SOAX targets by country, region, city and ISP on every plan, and adds ASN and ZIP from Scale. TrueProxies has no ISP-name or ZIP targeting. - You need mobile IPs too. SOAX charges one rate across residential and mobile traffic. TrueProxies does not sell mobile proxies. ### When TrueProxies fits - Your traffic exits in tier 1 countries. Standard costs $1.10 down to $0.60/GB for any country. SOAX tier 1, which includes the United States and Germany, costs $1.50/GB even on its $1,500 Scale plan. - You use traffic slowly. TrueProxies traffic packs never expire. SOAX credits lapse 60 days after they are added. - You want to test before you pay. TrueProxies has a free trial, 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps. SOAX says it has none. - You pay in crypto. TrueProxies takes Visa, Mastercard and crypto (including BTC, ETH and USDT). SOAX lists cards and, for approved business accounts, bank transfer. # Free Proxy Tools URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/ ## Proxy Checker URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/ SOCKS5 preset with SOCKS5/SOCKS5H, reply-code and command-line notes: https://trueproxies.com/tools/socks5-proxy-checker/ The checker resolves a public proxy endpoint, sends a small HTTPS exit-IP request through it, optionally enriches the observed exit with GeoJS, and—when selected—records the first response headers from Google or Wikipedia through a separate proxied request. Method version: 2026.07.18 · Last reviewed: 2026-07-18 Methodology JSON: https://trueproxies.com/research/proxy-checker-methodology-v1.json Queues up to 1,000 HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, or SOCKS5H endpoints per run. Results report point-in-time connectivity, cold end-to-end response time for a small request, exit evidence, optional target response headers, and stage-specific diagnostics. The checker does not measure throughput, anonymity, browser behavior, reputation, UDP, or universal target access. CSV/JSON exports exclude credentials and exit metadata; the explicit local Copy working action can reproduce original credential-bearing lines. ### Method stages - Validate and resolve the proxy: The parser accepts only supported formats and public endpoints. Private, reserved, mixed public/private DNS answers, invalid ports, and malformed credentials fail before any target request. - Observe one public exit: A fixed HTTPS request to IPify must return a valid public IP. Cold end-to-end response time starts after proxy-host DNS resolution and ends after the small response body is received and validated. - Add optional location evidence: GeoJS receives the observed exit IP directly from the checker for best-effort country, city, and network enrichment. Missing location data does not erase a successful exit observation. - Check one optional target: Google or Wikipedia is requested separately through the selected transport. Timing stops when initial response headers arrive; bodies are not downloaded and redirects are not followed. ### Interpretation boundaries - The 8-second boundary applies to each proxied network request attempt, not an entire endpoint or batch. - Exit response time is not bandwidth, throughput, ping, queue time, browser latency, or sustained performance. - A 2xx or 3xx initial target response is accepted for this observation. A 4xx or 5xx response is “target not accepted,” not proof of an IP ban. - Exit observation and target reachability use separate requests; a rotating endpoint can use different exits for them. - SOCKS coverage is TCP-only. The checker does not test UDP, anonymity, headers, reputation, browser fingerprints, stickiness, or universal target access. ## Proxy checker error codes: identify the failed stage URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/ Start with the exact error code, selected transport, selected target, and a credential-free endpoint label. Format and private-address failures happen before a proxied request. DNS, authentication, connection, TLS, timeout, and response failures happen at different network stages. A target response outside the accepted range means that one lightweight request was not accepted; it does not prove the exit IP is universally blocked. ### Evidence boundaries - Status: establishes The broad outcome category shown by this checker, such as invalid, offline, timed out, or working. Does not establish The responsible operator, the endpoint's future availability, or whether another client will behave identically. - Error code: establishes The parser, resolver, transport, authentication, target, or response stage associated with the observed failure. Does not establish A complete packet-level root cause or a provider-wide incident. - HTTP target status: establishes The status in the first response headers returned for the selected target request. Does not establish That the destination banned the proxy; 4xx and 5xx responses have many possible causes. - Credential-free label: establishes Which submitted line number and masked endpoint the result belongs to. Does not establish The submitted username or password, which must remain private. ### Limitations - Codes are normalized from the errors available to this server-side checker; operating systems and proxy libraries can collapse several low-level failures into one category. - A successful check is a point-in-time observation, not an uptime, reputation, anonymity, or future-availability guarantee. - The checker does not inspect packet captures, provider control planes, account state, browser fingerprints, or destination-side classification logic. - SOCKS5 testing covers TCP routing only. It does not test UDP ASSOCIATE or every SOCKS authentication extension. - Target response evidence comes from a lightweight server request, not a full browser session with JavaScript, cookies, account history, or CAPTCHA handling. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: HTTP Semantics — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110 - IETF / RFC Editor: SOCKS Protocol Version 5 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1928 - IETF / RFC Editor: Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1929 --- ## Proxy latency vs speed: one timer cannot measure both URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/latency-vs-speed/ Exit response time begins immediately before the checker opens the proxied request and ends after the small IPify JSON body is received and validated. Target response time ends when the selected target's response headers arrive; the target body is not downloaded. Proxy-host DNS resolution, queue time, GeoJS enrichment, rendering, and download throughput are outside those timers. Compare repeated results from the same runner and target, then report a median and sample count instead of calling one low value the fastest proxy. ### Evidence boundaries - Exit response time: establishes Elapsed checker-server time for the proxy connection, tunnel/TLS work, request, and validated small exit-IP response. Does not establish Target-site latency, user-device latency, bandwidth, sustained throughput, or queue duration. - Target response time: establishes Elapsed checker-server time until the selected target's initial response headers arrive through the same proxy transport. Does not establish Page load time, response-body transfer speed, rendering time, JavaScript completion, or browser interactivity. - Repeated sample: establishes How variable the same defined check was during the sampled window. Does not establish A provider-wide service level or performance from untested locations and destinations. - Timeout: establishes That one proxied request attempt did not finish within the eight-second boundary. Does not establish A numeric latency above eight seconds, zero throughput, or permanent endpoint failure. ### Limitations - Measurements originate from the isolated TrueProxies checker service, not from the visitor's browser or local network. - One small request cannot establish download speed, upload speed, sustained bandwidth, concurrency capacity, or cost per successful byte. - The timer uses the selected endpoint and target at one point in time; routes, exits, destinations, and load can change immediately afterward. - A timeout is retained as a categorical failure rather than invented as an exact numeric duration. - Comparisons across different targets, transports, runner regions, sample sizes, or time windows are not controlled comparisons. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: HTTP Semantics — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110 - W3C: Navigation Timing Level 2 — https://www.w3.org/TR/navigation-timing-2/ - W3C: High Resolution Time Level 3 — https://www.w3.org/TR/hr-time-3/ --- ## HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 proxy tests are different connections URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/http-vs-socks5/ Use http:// for a plain HTTP proxy transport that tunnels HTTPS targets with CONNECT. Use https:// when the connection from the checker to the proxy itself must be protected by TLS with hostname verification and SNI. Use socks5:// for SOCKS5 TCP with checker-side target DNS, or socks5h:// for SOCKS5 TCP with proxy-side target DNS. Auto makes only bounded HTTP/SOCKS5 attempts and never silently upgrades to HTTPS or changes to SOCKS5H. The checker does not test UDP ASSOCIATE. ### Evidence boundaries - Explicit scheme: establishes The proxy transport and, for SOCKS5 forms, the requested target-DNS mode. Does not establish That the endpoint supports another transport on the same port. - Transport that worked: establishes Which bounded connection mode completed this server-side HTTPS test. Does not establish Support in every browser, operating system, library, UDP application, or future session. - TLS failure: establishes A required TLS handshake or certificate validation did not complete for this attempt. Does not establish Whether the provider intended plain HTTP on that port or whether another client disables validation. - SOCKS target-DNS mode: establishes Whether the checker or SOCKS proxy is asked to resolve the fixed destination hostname. Does not establish The DNS behavior of the visitor's browser, operating system, or unrelated applications. ### Limitations - The checker validates a server-side TCP route to fixed HTTPS services; it is not a generic implementation test for every protocol carried through SOCKS5. - SOCKS5 UDP ASSOCIATE, UDP applications, BIND, GSS-API, and provider-specific authentication extensions are outside scope. - HTTP CONNECT success does not prove support for unencrypted HTTP forwarding to arbitrary destinations. - HTTPS proxy transport protects the checker-to-proxy hop; it does not make the proxy operator or exit route anonymous. - Auto is intentionally bounded and may not discover a nonstandard transport. Explicit provider documentation remains authoritative. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: HTTP CONNECT — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#name-connect - IETF / RFC Editor: The Transport Layer Security Protocol Version 1.3 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446 - IETF / RFC Editor: SOCKS Protocol Version 5 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1928 - IETF / RFC Editor: Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1929 --- ## Proxy target reachability: read the response without overclaiming URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/target-reachability/ The checker first requests IPify through the proxy and validates the public exit IP. If Google or Wikipedia is selected, it then starts a second proxied HTTPS request and stops timing when the first response headers arrive; it does not download the target body. A 2xx or 3xx response is reported as accepted. A 4xx or 5xx response is reported as not accepted with its HTTP status. Neither result proves universal access, a destination-wide block, browser compatibility, or anonymity. ### Evidence boundaries - Neutral exit check: establishes The proxy completed the fixed IPify HTTPS request and returned a valid public exit address. Does not establish That Google, Wikipedia, or the visitor's actual destination will accept the same route. - 2xx/3xx target headers: establishes The selected destination returned an accepted-range initial response to this lightweight request. Does not establish That redirects complete, page bodies load, JavaScript runs, accounts remain usable, or future requests succeed. - 4xx/5xx target headers: establishes The selected destination returned a client- or server-error status for this request. Does not establish That the proxy IP was banned; authentication, rate limits, URL policy, maintenance, headers, or automation controls can produce the status. - Target response time: establishes Elapsed checker-server time until the initial response headers arrived through the proxy. Does not establish Body throughput, full page load, browser rendering, CAPTCHA completion, or application success. ### Limitations - Only the curated Google and Wikipedia targets are available; arbitrary targets are excluded to prevent server-side request forgery and abuse. - The request is generated by the server-side checker, not a browser, mobile app, scraper, logged-in account, or the visitor's own TLS stack. - Only the initial response headers are used for target reachability. Bodies, redirects, JavaScript, cookies, challenges, and application state are not executed. - A 4xx or 5xx response is described as not accepted, never as verified blocking of the exit IP. - Destination behavior, endpoints, rate limits, and network policies can change after the method version was reviewed. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: HTTP Semantics: Status Codes — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#name-status-codes - IETF / RFC Editor: HTTP Semantics: Safe Methods — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#name-safe-methods - OWASP: Server-Side Request Forgery Prevention Cheat Sheet — https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Server_Side_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html ## 407 Proxy Authentication Required: causes and fixes URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/407-proxy-authentication-required/ A 407 is the proxy's own answer: it wants credentials it did not get or did not accept, so the request never reached the website. The usual causes are a mistyped username or password, a password with special characters that was not percent-encoded in the proxy URL, and a client that never sends credentials at all. Run the request once with `curl -v` to see the proxy's answer and any reason it gives. ### Causes, most likely first - The username or password is wrong. A typo, a space or line break copied along with the credentials, or an old password after it was changed. Many providers also put options such as country or session in the username, so a misspelled option can look like a wrong username. - Special characters in the password were not encoded. Inside a proxy URL such as `http://USER:PASS@HOST:PORT`, the characters `@`, `:`, `/`, `#` and `%` have meaning, so a password containing `@` is split in the wrong place. Percent-encode it (`@` becomes `%40`) or pass the credentials in a separate option. - The client never sends the credentials. Chrome ignores a username and password written into `--proxy-server`, and Selenium's proxy setting has no place for them. The proxy then sees a request with no `Proxy-Authorization` header and answers 407. - Your address is not on the IP whitelist. With IP whitelist authentication, the proxy admits only the public addresses you listed. If yours changed, or your connection leaves over IPv6 while the list holds your IPv4 address, the proxy asks for credentials instead. - The account cannot carry traffic. Some providers, TrueProxies included, answer 407 when a plan has expired, used its traffic or reached a limit, because the check happens at the same step as the password. ### If you use TrueProxies - The gateway answers 407 with one sentence that names the check that failed, in the `X-Proxy-Reason` header and the response body, then closes the connection. A refusal uses no traffic. The sentences you are most likely to see: - SOCKS5 has no field for a reason, so a refused SOCKS5 login just fails: send the same login once to the HTTP port, 8080, with `curl -v` to read the sentence. The [errors reference](https://docs.trueproxies.com/proxy-instructions/errors/) lists every reason. --- ## 403 Forbidden through a proxy: find out who refused URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/403-forbidden-proxy/ Most 403s seen through a proxy come from the website: the tunnel opened, the site read the request and declined it. A 403 that arrives as the answer to `CONNECT`, before any TLS, comes from the proxy, which refused the destination. `curl -v` shows which: look for `200 Connection established` before the 403. ### Causes, most likely first - The website refused this request. Sites refuse requests that do not look like their usual visitors: missing or inconsistent headers, no cookies, an unusual TLS client, or a page that needs a signed-in session. This is the most common source of a 403 through a working proxy. - The website refuses the exit's network. Many sites score addresses by network type and history. Datacenter ranges and addresses with recent abuse reports are refused more often than residential ones, and some sites refuse every range they know belongs to a proxy or VPN. - The exit is in a country the site does not serve. Streaming, banking, betting and some retail sites answer 403 to countries outside their market. Check where the exit actually is; IP databases often disagree about cities. - The proxy refused the destination. Providers refuse private and reserved addresses such as `127.0.0.1`, `10.0.0.0/8` and `192.168.0.0/16`, keep their own blocked lists, and sometimes refuse ports. This 403 replaces the tunnel. - Another proxy in between. Office and school proxies answer 403 for blocked categories, and some providers send 403 instead of 407 to an address that is not on their IP whitelist. ### If you use TrueProxies - A 403 in reply to `CONNECT`, with no reason, means the destination is a private or reserved address, such as `127.0.0.1` or `192.168.0.0/16`, or one TrueProxies blocks. On SOCKS5 the same refusal is reply `0x02`, connection not allowed by ruleset. - Every 403 inside an open tunnel is the website's answer. The gateway does not use 403 for logins or limits: those come back as 407 with a reason in `X-Proxy-Reason`. - Residential IPv4 Standard and Premium target by country, region, city and ASN, and Unlimited Bandwidth by country and city. Moving to an exit in the site's own country, or to a sticky session that keeps its cookies on one IP, changes the request the site sees; it does not change the site's rules. Under the [acceptable use policy](/acceptable-use/) you are responsible for following the terms of every site you reach through the service. --- ## 429 Too Many Requests through a proxy: find the limit URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/429-too-many-requests-proxy/ A 429 is a rate limit: something counted your requests and asked you to slow down, often with a `Retry-After` header that says for how long. Through a proxy it is almost always the website, after the tunnel opened. Find what the limit counts (the IP, a cookie, an API key or an account), then send fewer requests, not the same requests from more addresses. ### Causes, most likely first - Too many requests per second to one site. Scraping and monitoring jobs usually start at full speed. A burst at start-up, or parallel workers fetching the same pages, is the most common trigger. - Retries without backoff. A client that retries every failure at once raises its rate exactly when the site is asking it to slow down, and can turn a 30-second limit into a long one. - One sticky IP carries all the traffic. A sticky session is the right choice for logins and carts, but it puts every request from that worker on one address. - The limit follows an account, cookie or API key. If every worker sends the same session cookie, token or API key, the site counts them together whatever address each one uses. - Other traffic on the same address. Residential and mobile exits are shared networks: a household or carrier address can carry other traffic to the same site, which counts against a per-IP limit. ### If you use TrueProxies - The gateway never answers 429. When it refuses a connection itself, it answers 407 with the reason in `X-Proxy-Reason`, so `curl -v` tells its refusals apart from a website's 429. Reusing connections with keep-alive or a connection pool avoids opening more connections than a job needs. - So a 429 inside a tunnel is the website's. Rotating sessions request a new IP for each connection, and the same IP can appear again. That spreads a per-IP count but does nothing for limits on cookies, keys or accounts. - If nearly every connection from a service fails at its destination for two minutes, the gateway pauses new connections briefly and says so in `X-Proxy-Reason`, with the counts and the wait. Slow the client down; the pause ends on its own. --- ## 502 Bad Gateway from a proxy: what failed behind it URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/502-bad-gateway-proxy/ A 502 means a gateway got no usable answer from the server behind it. If the proxy sends it in reply to `CONNECT`, the proxy could not reach the site: the name did not resolve, the IP version did not match, or the site did not answer through that exit. If it arrives after `200 Connection established`, the site's own gateway or CDN sent it, and the proxy did its job. ### Causes, most likely first - The site's origin is down behind its CDN. The CDN answers for the site and gets nothing usable from the origin. This 502 arrives inside the tunnel, and visitors without a proxy see it too. - The name does not resolve at the proxy. A typo, an internal hostname, or a name that exists only on your local network. With any HTTP proxy, and with SOCKS5 through `socks5h://`, the proxy resolves the name, not your computer. - IPv4 and IPv6 do not match. An IPv6 proxy cannot reach a site that has no IPv6 address, and an IPv4 exit cannot reach a site that has only IPv6. Proxies that check this answer 502. - The exit could not reach the site. The site may refuse the exit's network, or the exit may have dropped while the connection was being set up. A sticky session keeps returning to the same exit. - The wrong port. Connecting to a port the site does not serve, such as 8443 on a site that only answers on 443. ### If you use TrueProxies - When the gateway knows why a destination cannot be reached, it answers `CONNECT` with 502 and a reason in `X-Proxy-Reason` and the body. A refused name is learned after one attempt and refused at once from then on. - A 503 with no reason means no exit was free for the targeting you asked for, the site refused, reset or did not answer the connection, or the port is closed: mail ports 25, 465, 587 and 2525 are closed on every service. On SOCKS5 all of these are reply `0x03`, network unreachable. - Usage history lists Destination has no IPv4 address, Destination has no IPv6 address and Destination not found under Not counted against success: no proxy can reach those destinations, so they do not lower your connection success. --- ## ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED in Chrome: causes and fixes URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/err-proxy-connection-failed/ Chrome shows ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED when it cannot open a connection to the proxy server: the proxy's name did not resolve, nothing answered on that host and port, or something on your computer or network blocked it. The website is not involved. If you did not set up a proxy, a VPN or proxy app has probably left a system proxy behind; turn it off. ### Causes, most likely first - A system proxy you did not mean to set. Chrome follows the operating system's proxy settings. VPN clients, proxy apps, download managers, some security tools and malware set a system proxy, and leave it behind when they stop or are uninstalled. - A wrong host or port. A typo, a host copied from another service, or the port of a different protocol. - The proxy is down or out of reach. The proxy server is not running, or it listens only on another network, such as a company proxy that works only in the office or on the VPN. - A firewall or security tool blocks the port. Local firewalls, antivirus web shields and office or school networks often block outgoing connections to proxy ports. - The proxy's name does not resolve. A misspelled hostname, or a DNS filter on your network that refuses it. - A broken automatic configuration. A PAC script or automatic setup address that points at a proxy that no longer exists. ### If you use TrueProxies - Copy the connection host and ports from the service page. Residential IPv4, Datacenter IPv6 and Residential IPv6 listen on HTTP 8080, HTTPS 8443 (TLS to the proxy) and SOCKS5 1080, each on its own connection host. Sticky ports use SOCKS5 10000–10999 and HTTP 20000–20999, and each Static ISP IP has its own port. - Some networks block proxy ports. If the proxy checker reaches the gateway and your computer cannot, test from a phone hotspot; if that works, your network blocks the port. Try another of the three ports, and ask the network's administrator. - The [anti-detect browser proxy errors guide](/integrations/anti-detect-browser-proxy-errors/) covers the same code inside AdsPower, Dolphin Anty, GoLogin and the other Chromium-based browsers. --- ## ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED: why the proxy would not open a tunnel URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/err-tunnel-connection-failed/ Chrome reached the proxy and asked it to open a tunnel to the site with `CONNECT`, and the proxy answered with something other than 200 or closed the connection. The status the proxy sent is the real error, and Chrome hides it: a 407 is a login problem, a 403 a refused destination, a 502 or 503 a destination the proxy could not reach. Repeat the request with `curl -v` to see it. ### Causes, most likely first - Missing or wrong proxy credentials. The most common cause in Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium. Credentials written into `--proxy-server` are ignored, so Chromium sends none and the proxy answers 407. - The proxy could not reach the site. The site refused or did not answer the exit, the name did not resolve at the proxy, or the exit's IP version does not match the site's. The proxy answers 502, 503 or 504. - The proxy refused the destination or the port. Private addresses, blocked sites and closed ports are refused, usually with 403 or 503. Many proxies allow `CONNECT` only to port 443 and a few others. - The account cannot carry traffic. An expired plan or used-up traffic, which providers report as 407 or another error to `CONNECT`. - The wrong proxy type for the port. An HTTP proxy setting pointed at a SOCKS5 port, or at a port that expects TLS, gets no valid answer to `CONNECT`. - Another proxy in between. A company proxy or security tool that inspects TLS can refuse tunnels to some sites or categories. ### If you use TrueProxies - The gateway's answer to `CONNECT` tells you which of these happened: - Test proxy on the Proxy setup tab sends one request with the settings you selected and reports the result and exit IP, which separates a setup problem from a site problem before you open a browser. --- ## ECONNRESET through a proxy: find which side reset URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/econnreset-proxy/ ECONNRESET means the other end of a TCP connection aborted it. Through a proxy, the other end of your socket is always the proxy, so the reset can start at the proxy, at the exit or at the website and still look the same. The most common causes are reusing a keep-alive connection the other side already closed, and the wrong protocol for the proxy port. Retry requests that are safe to repeat, and pair the proxy URL's scheme with its port. ### Causes, most likely first - A reused keep-alive connection was already closed. Connection pools keep idle sockets for the next request. If the proxy or the site closed one after its own idle timeout, the next request goes out on a dead socket and gets a reset. This is the usual cause of occasional resets in long-running jobs. - The wrong protocol for the port. An `https://` proxy URL sends TLS to the proxy; on a port that expects plain HTTP the handshake fails or is reset. urllib3 recognises the case and says Your proxy appears to only use HTTP and not HTTPS. Sending HTTP to a SOCKS5 port fails the same way. - The proxy refused and closed. Many proxies close the connection after an error response such as 407. A client that keeps writing to it, or reuses it, sees a reset or socket hang up instead of the status. - The website reset the connection. Some sites reset connections they refuse, often during the TLS handshake or after too many requests. - The exit went away mid-transfer. A residential exit is a household connection that can drop at any time. Long downloads and long-lived connections are the ones that notice. - Something on your side. NAT gateways and firewalls drop connections that stay idle, which breaks WebSockets and long polls. Antivirus HTTPS scanning, VPN clients and company TLS inspection can reset connections they decide to block. ### If you use TrueProxies - The gateway listens for plain HTTP on 8080, TLS to the proxy on 8443 and SOCKS5 on 1080. Use `http://HOST:8080` for both `http://` and `https://` sites, `https://HOST:8443` when your client supports TLS to the proxy, and `socks5h://HOST:1080`. - After a refusal the gateway answers 407 with a reason and closes the connection. Clients that do not read the answer report the close as ECONNRESET or socket hang up; send one request with `curl -v` to read `X-Proxy-Reason`. - Usage history on the service page records which side ended a connection. Connection reset is a reset recorded on the proxy's side of the route. Reset on your side, listed under Ended on your side, is one observed on your side, and does not count against connection success. - A residential exit can go offline in the middle of a connection. A sticky session then gets a new IP; keep the session ID and retry. --- ## curl error 56 through a proxy: what each message means URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/curl-error-56/ curl exits with code 56 (`CURLE_RECV_ERROR`) when receiving data fails. Through a proxy it usually comes with one of three messages: CONNECT tunnel failed, response N (the proxy answered the tunnel request with status N), Proxy CONNECT aborted (the proxy closed the connection without answering), or Recv failure: Connection reset by peer (the connection was reset). The text after the colon is the diagnosis. ### Causes, most likely first - The proxy refused the tunnel: CONNECT tunnel failed, response N. N is the proxy's status. 407 is a login problem, 403 a refused destination, 502 or 503 a destination the proxy could not reach. curl 7 printed the same failure as Received HTTP code N from proxy after CONNECT. - The proxy type does not match the port: Proxy CONNECT aborted. `-x http://HOST:PORT` against a SOCKS5 port or a TLS-only port gets no HTTP answer, and the proxy closes the connection. A proxy that drops clients it does not accept, or one under heavy load, does the same. - A reset: Recv failure: Connection reset by peer. The proxy, the exit or the site reset the connection while curl was reading. See [ECONNRESET through a proxy](/tools/proxy-checker/error-codes/econnreset-proxy/) for the causes. - A transfer cut short: unexpected eof while reading. OpenSSL 3 builds report a TLS connection that ended without a proper close this way. The site or the route stopped mid-transfer. - A proxy you did not mean to use. curl reads `http_proxy`, `HTTPS_PROXY` and `ALL_PROXY` from the environment and `proxy` from `~/.curlrc`, so a forgotten setting can send requests through a proxy that no longer works. ### If you use TrueProxies - Use `-x http://HOST:8080` for both `http://` and `https://` sites, `-x https://HOST:8443` for TLS to the proxy, and `--socks5-hostname HOST:1080` for SOCKS5. - The gateway puts its reason in `X-Proxy-Reason` on every 407 and on the 502s it can explain. Print it next to curl's error: - SOCKS5 failures exit with curl's SOCKS codes rather than 56 and carry no reason: a refused SOCKS5 login prints curl: (97) User was rejected by the SOCKS5 server (1 1). Send the same username and proxy password once through port 8080 to read the gateway's sentence. ## IP Leak Test: IPv4, IPv6, WebRTC, DNS, and saved baseline URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/ip-leak-test/ This is a browser-route comparison, not an anonymity certificate. It measures separately observable network signals, records incomplete evidence as unavailable or inconclusive, and treats only an exact direct-baseline match, a WebRTC address on a different network from the visible browser route, or a DNS resolver on the saved direct connection’s network as a leak indicator. Test version: 2026.10.01 · Last reviewed: 2026-10-01 ### Baseline workflow - Measure the direct route: Without the proxy or VPN route you want to evaluate, run a complete test and review the IPv4, IPv6, WebRTC, and DNS evidence. - Save the current result: Choose “Use Current as Baseline.” The detected public IPs and DNS resolvers remain only in this page’s in-memory state for the current tab; reloading or leaving the page clears them. - Change only the intended route: Enable the proxy, VPN, or other routing configuration while keeping the same browser and tab. Changing several variables makes the comparison harder to interpret. - Run the same checks again: An exact public-IP or WebRTC match with the saved direct baseline is leak evidence, and so is a DNS resolver on the direct connection’s network. Missing data, an unverified alternate route, or DNS geography alone remains inconclusive or Review. ### Privacy and limitations - The result is assembled in your browser. This tool does not submit a completed test report to TrueProxies. - The saved baseline is held in memory for the current page and tab. It is not persisted by the tool after a reload or navigation. - The measurement providers receive the requests required to observe an address, candidate-supporting STUN exchange, geolocation lookup, or DNS probe. Their own privacy and retention terms apply. - Public IP addresses and resolver addresses are shown on screen because they are the evidence being compared. Mask them before posting a screenshot or sharing a report. - A clean result covers only the signals available to this run. It does not prove anonymity, prevent fingerprinting, inspect every application on the device, or verify traffic outside this browser tab. - IP geolocation is approximate. A city or country mismatch can reflect stale data, ISP routing, a public resolver, or anycast rather than a route leak. - A standard HTTP proxy may carry browser HTTP traffic without carrying WebRTC, operating-system DNS, or every IPv6 path. The exact behavior depends on the browser, operating system, proxy protocol, and client configuration. - Rotating and multi-egress services can legitimately expose different addresses during one run. Alternate addresses remain Review unless direct-baseline or independently verified network evidence satisfies the leak rule. - Provider outages, rate limits, content-security policy, extensions, and network filtering can remove evidence. Unavailable means unverified, not safe and not leaked. ## WebRTC Leak Test: read ICE candidates without guessing URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/webrtc-leak-test/ A WebRTC leak test creates an RTCPeerConnection, waits for ICE gathering, classifies candidates, and compares public candidate addresses with the browser-visible route and a known direct baseline. Private addresses and mDNS hostnames are not public identity leaks. A timeout is Unavailable, not a pass; a browser that returns no candidates at all exposes no address. ### Interpretation boundaries - No Indicator: No unexpected public route was demonstrated in this run; this is not an anonymity guarantee. - Review: Multi-egress routing may be legitimate. Compare with a saved baseline and the provider's expected network. - Leak: The browser exposed a public path outside the intended route. - Unavailable: The test did not obtain enough evidence. Retry and inspect browser or extension policy before drawing a conclusion. ### Primary references - W3C: WebRTC Recommendation — https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/ - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 8445: Interactive Connectivity Establishment — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8445/ - MDN Web Docs: RTCIceCandidate reference — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCIceCandidate - MDN Web Docs: RTCPeerConnection icecandidate event — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCPeerConnection/icecandidate_event --- ## DNS Leak Test: distinguish resolver evidence from a false alarm URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/dns-leak-test/ A browser DNS leak test requests unique hostnames and asks an authoritative service which recursive resolvers looked them up. Compare the observed resolver set before and after changing routes. An exact direct-baseline resolver that persists is worth reviewing, but public resolvers, anycast, encrypted DNS, and geolocation errors make country mismatches insufficient proof of a leak. ### Interpretation boundaries - No Indicator: No DNS mismatch was demonstrated in this sample; not every resolver or future lookup is guaranteed. - Review: Inspect the intended DNS mode, provider documentation, and repeated runs. This is not automatic proof of identity exposure. - Leak: Confirmation needs more than a country mismatch—for example, a known direct resolver plus verified routing/configuration evidence. - Unavailable: No resolver evidence was obtained. Ad blockers, browser policy, DoH behavior, network filtering, or service reachability may be involved. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 1034: Domain Names — Concepts and Facilities — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1034 - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 8484: DNS Queries over HTTPS — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8484 - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 4786: Operation of Anycast Services — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4786 - RFC Editor: DNS terminology (RFC 8499) — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8499 --- ## IPv6 Leak Test: compare both address families before calling a leak URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/ipv6-leak-test/ An IPv6 leak test uses an IPv6-only request to determine whether the browser has public IPv6 connectivity, then compares that address with the intended route and a saved direct baseline. An IPv4-only proxy can carry IPv4 browser requests while IPv6 continues directly. No IPv6 result means the family was unavailable or its request failed—it is not a universal security pass. ### Interpretation boundaries - No Indicator: This run showed no unexpected IPv6 path. Absence of IPv6 does not test future connectivity changes. - Review: Check product support, client routing, network owner, and repeated baseline results. - Leak: The IPv6 family bypassed the intended route in this run. - Unavailable: IPv6 connectivity was not measured. State the family as unavailable rather than safe or leaked. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8200 - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 6724: Default Address Selection — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6724 - IETF / RFC Editor: IPv6 addressing architecture — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291 - IETF / RFC Editor: IPv6 privacy considerations — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7721 --- ## Proxy vs VPN vs WARP: which browser network paths are actually covered? URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/ip-leak-test/proxy-vs-vpn/ An HTTP proxy normally carries only application traffic explicitly configured to use it. SOCKS5 can carry more protocols and may support remote name resolution, but client behavior decides what is proxied. A full-device VPN or WARP traffic mode operates at the device route layer, yet split tunnels, exclusions, DNS modes, and browser policies can still create different observable paths. Test each signal before and after changing one route. ### Interpretation boundaries - No Indicator: The measured channels were consistent in this run; untested applications and future route changes remain outside scope. - Review: Verify the client mode and provider behavior instead of treating a geography mismatch as proof. - Leak: At least one measured channel bypassed the intended route. - Unavailable: The route cannot be cleared or failed on that channel. Retry and inspect policy or service reachability. ### Primary references - IETF / RFC Editor: RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5 — https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1928 - IETF / RFC Editor: HTTP Semantics: CONNECT — https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-connect - Cloudflare: Cloudflare One Client route traffic — https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/team-and-resources/devices/cloudflare-one-client/configure/route-traffic/ - Cloudflare: Cloudflare Split Tunnels — https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/team-and-resources/devices/cloudflare-one-client/configure/route-traffic/split-tunnels/ ## Browser route leak case series: direct, WARP, and proxy paths URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/ip-leak-test/research/ An anonymized four-run browser route case series comparing direct, Cloudflare WARP, and browser-proxy paths across IPv4, IPv6, WebRTC, and DNS signals. This is a four-run user-reported case series, not a population benchmark. Browser and operating system were not recorded, and raw network identifiers were removed. - TP-RCS-20260718-01: Direct connection; HTTP IPv4 only; WebRTC No Indicator; DNS Review; overall Inconclusive. This run was useful as a user-asserted direct baseline, but the DNS geography difference was not treated as proof of a leak. - TP-RCS-20260718-02: Cloudflare WARP; HTTP IPv4 and IPv6; WebRTC Review; DNS No Indicator; overall Inconclusive. The alternate WebRTC address required review, but the available same-provider evidence did not verify a route leak. - TP-RCS-20260718-03: Browser proxy layered over WARP; HTTP IPv6 only; WebRTC Leak; DNS Unavailable; overall Leak. The browser proxy did not isolate the WebRTC path from the underlying WARP route in this run. - TP-RCS-20260718-04: Browser proxy without WARP; HTTP IPv6 only; WebRTC Leak; DNS Unavailable; overall Leak. Removing WARP changed which underlying route WebRTC exposed, but did not make the browser proxy a full-device isolation boundary. CSV: https://trueproxies.com/research/ip-leak-route-case-series-2026-07-18.csv JSON: https://trueproxies.com/research/ip-leak-route-case-series-2026-07-18.json ## cURL converter URL: https://trueproxies.com/tools/curl-converter/ Paste a curl command, such as one copied from your browser's developer tools, and get the same request as Python requests, Python httpx, Node.js fetch, Playwright for Python or Go net/http. Headers, cookies, the body, basic auth, redirects, TLS checks, timeouts and proxy settings carry over. Conversion runs in your browser. The command, with any cookies or tokens in it, is not sent to TrueProxies or anywhere else. ### Supported curl options - -X, --request: Method - -H, --header: Header; Cookie headers become cookies - -d, --data, --data-raw, --data-binary: Body, joined with & when repeated; POST unless -X says otherwise - --data-urlencode: Body part, encoded as curl encodes it - --json: Body with JSON content type and Accept headers - -u, --user: Basic authentication - -b, --cookie: Cookies (a cookie file is not read) - -A, --user-agent and -e, --referer: User-Agent and Referer headers - -L, --location: Follow redirects - -k, --insecure: Skip certificate checks - --compressed: Accepted; every library decompresses on its own - -x, --proxy, -U, --proxy-user, --socks5, --socks5-hostname: Proxy and proxy login - -G, --get: Move the body into the query string - -I, --head: HEAD request - -m, --max-time: Timeout in seconds - --url: URL ### Proxy settings by library - curl: -x socks5h:// sends the hostname to the proxy, which resolves it. -x socks5:// resolves it on your machine and sends the proxy an IP address. - Python requests: Same two schemes as curl, with the same meaning. SOCKS needs pip install "requests[socks]". - Python httpx: SOCKS needs pip install "httpx[socks]". httpx accepts socks5:// and socks5h:// and sends the hostname to the proxy with either. - Node.js fetch: The proxy goes in an undici ProxyAgent passed as dispatcher. HTTP and HTTPS proxies work in every undici version; socks5:// needs undici 7 or later, where it is marked experimental, and sends the hostname to the proxy. - Playwright for Python: The proxy goes in the launch options. There is no socks5h://: with socks5:// the browser sends the hostname to the proxy. Playwright refuses a username and password on a SOCKS proxy, so use an HTTP proxy when the proxy needs a password. - Go net/http: http.ProxyURL on the Transport takes http, https, socks5 and socks5h. Go treats socks5 like socks5h: the proxy resolves the hostname. ### Limitations - Bash syntax only. Commands copied as cURL (cmd) or for PowerShell use other quoting. - One request: the first curl command and its first URL. Anything after an unquoted ;, |, & or > is ignored. - Shell variables such as $TOKEN and command substitutions are kept as text, not expanded. - Not converted: multipart forms (-F), uploads (-T), bodies or cookies read from a file (@file, -b file), client certificates, and HTTP version or retry options. - The Python and Node.js outputs rebuild JSON bodies from the parsed data, so spacing can differ from the original. Go sends the body exactly as written. - Playwright loads the URL as a page in a real browser. The browser adds its own headers and, for an HTML page, loads its images and scripts too. # Documentation Technical documentation lives at https://docs.trueproxies.com/ (see https://docs.trueproxies.com/llms.txt for the full inventory). - Overview: https://docs.trueproxies.com/overview/ - Quickstart: https://docs.trueproxies.com/getting-started/quickstart/ - How to Connect: https://docs.trueproxies.com/proxy-instructions/how-to-connect/ - Proxy Protocols (HTTP CONNECT and SOCKS5): https://docs.trueproxies.com/proxy-instructions/proxy-protocols/ - Trusted IPs: https://docs.trueproxies.com/proxy-instructions/ip-whitelisting/ - Billing Models: https://docs.trueproxies.com/pricing/overview/ - Integrations (Python, Node.js, cURL, Go, Java, PHP, C#, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Scrapy): https://docs.trueproxies.com/integrations/python/ - Technical FAQ: https://docs.trueproxies.com/faq/ # Proxy Glossary URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/ ### What is a residential proxy? A residential proxy routes your internet traffic through an IP address assigned by a consumer internet service provider (ISP) to a real household device. Because websites see a genuine home connection rather than a server, residential proxies are far less likely to be blocked or challenged by anti-bot systems than datacenter IPs. They are the standard choice for web scraping, ad verification, and any workflow that must look like ordinary user traffic. ### What is a datacenter proxy? A datacenter proxy routes traffic through an IP address owned by a cloud or hosting provider rather than a consumer ISP. Datacenter proxies are faster and cheaper than residential proxies because they run on server infrastructure, but their IP ranges are publicly identifiable as non-residential, so sophisticated websites block them more readily. They suit high-volume tasks against targets with weak bot detection. ### What is a rotating proxy? A rotating proxy changes or requests a change to the outbound exit under a provider's request, connection, timed, or explicit rotation model. Rotation can increase exit diversity, but an address can repeat and target acceptance is not guaranteed. TrueProxies Residential IPv4 exposes normal and explicit rotation through documented username forms rather than a timed selector. ### How is a static proxy different from a sticky session? A static proxy is designed as a longer-lived IP allocation whose lifetime and replacement rules still depend on the provider and product; it is not inherently permanent. A sticky session instead asks a rotating pool to reuse one assigned exit while it remains available. Reusing the same session identifier can support a permitted login, cart, or multi-step flow, but it does not promise a permanent address or fixed duration and does not maintain application state by itself. ### What is a proxy pool? A proxy pool is the set of IP addresses a provider can route traffic through. A larger advertised pool can offer more potential exit diversity, but it does not guarantee a unique or accepted address for a target. Evaluate usable geography, sourcing, repeated exits, reputation, and target results alongside the headline size. ### What is IP rotation? IP rotation is the practice of changing or requesting a change to the outbound address used for traffic. Providers may rotate per request, per connection, on a timer, or through an explicit selector. Rotation can distribute requests across available exits, but addresses can repeat and it does not reset cookies, guarantee anonymity, prevent rate limits, or ensure target acceptance. ### What is an IPv4 proxy? An IPv4 proxy uses an address from the original 32-bit Internet Protocol space, which offers roughly 4.3 billion addresses. Because IPv4 space is exhausted and universally supported, IPv4 proxies work with every website but cost more than IPv6. Virtually all consumer ISPs still assign IPv4 addresses, which is why residential IPv4 proxies remain the most compatible and most in-demand proxy type. ### What is an IPv6 proxy? An IPv6 proxy uses an address from the 128-bit Internet Protocol version 6 space, which is effectively unlimited. IPv6 proxies are significantly cheaper per IP and available in huge volumes, but not every website is reachable over IPv6, so they suit targets that support it. They excel at high-volume tasks where cost per IP dominates. ### What is a SOCKS5 proxy? SOCKS5 is a transport-level proxy protocol that forwards arbitrary TCP (and optionally UDP) traffic without interpreting it, unlike HTTP proxies which understand web requests specifically. Because SOCKS5 is protocol-agnostic, it works for any application — browsers, scrapers, games, or custom software. It supports authentication and is generally preferred when tunneling non-HTTP traffic through a proxy. ### What is UDP over SOCKS5? UDP over SOCKS5 is the SOCKS5 feature that relays UDP packets through the proxy (the protocol calls it UDP ASSOCIATE). The client opens a normal SOCKS5 connection, asks for a UDP relay, and then sends packets to a relay port the proxy returns; replies come back the same way. It is what lets QUIC, HTTP/3 and DNS use a proxy, since HTTP proxies carry TCP only. On TrueProxies it is included on paid Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro plans, the free trial, Residential IPv4 Standard and Premium traffic packs and Static ISP, with the same host, port and login as TCP. On Unlimited Pro and the free trial it reaches destination ports 443 and 19302 only. ### What is an HTTP/HTTPS proxy? An HTTP proxy forwards web traffic and understands the HTTP protocol, which lets it add headers, cache responses, or filter requests. For encrypted traffic, the client sends an HTTP CONNECT request and the proxy opens a blind tunnel to the destination, so HTTPS content stays end-to-end encrypted. HTTP proxies are the simplest option for browsers and scraping libraries, which support them natively. ### What is geo-targeting? Geo-targeting is selecting proxy IPs from a specific country, city, or region so that websites serve the content local users see. Search results, prices, ad placements, and product availability all vary by visitor location, so accurate geo-targeting is essential for SEO monitoring, ad verification, and market research. Granularity ranges from country level down to city, ZIP code, or specific ISP. ### What is ASN targeting? ASN targeting selects proxy IPs belonging to a specific Autonomous System Number — the registry identifier for a network operator such as an ISP or carrier. Targeting by ASN lets you route traffic through a particular provider's network, which is useful when a website treats traffic from different ISPs differently or when you need to replicate the exact network conditions of a customer segment. ### What is IP reputation? IP reputation is a score that websites, anti-fraud systems, and blocklists assign to an IP address based on its observed history — spam, abuse, bot activity, or association with datacenter ranges. Low-reputation IPs face CAPTCHAs, throttling, or outright blocks regardless of how legitimate the current request is. Proxy quality largely comes down to how clean the pool's reputation is and how it is maintained. ### What is anti-bot detection? Anti-bot detection is the set of techniques websites use to distinguish automated traffic from human visitors: IP reputation checks, TLS and browser fingerprinting, JavaScript challenges, behavioral analysis, and CAPTCHAs. Residential proxies address the IP layer of detection, but robust automation also needs realistic browser fingerprints and request patterns to pass the remaining layers. ### What is bandwidth-based (per-GB) pricing? Bandwidth-based pricing charges for the volume of data transferred through the proxy, typically per gigabyte, regardless of how many IPs or requests you use. Per-GB plans suit lightweight, infrequent workloads. For data-heavy workloads — media files, full-page rendering, or continuous scraping — costs scale linearly with traffic, which is when unlimited-bandwidth plans become more economical. ### What is an unlimited bandwidth proxy? An unlimited proxy plan charges a fixed price for unlimited data transfer at a defined speed tier, instead of billing per gigabyte. Costs stay predictable no matter how much traffic the workload generates, which suits continuous scraping, streaming verification, and other high-volume tasks. The trade-off is a bandwidth cap expressed as connection speed rather than data volume. ### What is web scraping? Web scraping is the automated extraction of publicly available data from websites, used for price monitoring, market research, SEO tracking, and machine-learning datasets. Because websites rate-limit and block repeated automated access from a single address, scraping at scale depends on proxies to distribute requests across many IPs and on parsers that tolerate page-structure changes. ### What is ad verification? Ad verification is the practice of checking that digital advertisements actually appear as purchased — correct placement, geography, creative, and landing page — and that they are not served alongside fraud or brand-unsafe content. Verifiers use residential proxies in each target market because ad servers deliver different campaigns to different locations and often hide problems from datacenter traffic. ### What is SERP monitoring? SERP monitoring is the automated tracking of search engine results pages for chosen keywords across locations and devices. Search results are heavily localized, so accurate rank tracking requires querying from IPs inside each target market. Tools use rotating residential proxies to collect results at scale without triggering the CAPTCHAs that search engines show to suspicious traffic. ### What is ad cloaking? Ad cloaking is serving one version of an ad or landing page to reviewers, verification tools and datacenter IPs, and a different one to ordinary visitors. The compliant version passes the ad network's review; the cloaked version carries the real payload, such as a forbidden offer, a forced redirect or a download. Google's "Cloak of Visibility" research measured the technique across search and ad traffic. ### What is malvertising? Malvertising is the use of legitimate advertising channels to deliver malware or fraud: an ad creative or its landing page carries a forced redirect, a fake update prompt, a scam offer or an exploit. Because the payload is often shown only to consumer IPs in specific countries, it can pass the ad network's review and a verification vendor's scan from datacenter or office networks. ### What is the difference between GIVT and SIVT? GIVT (general invalid traffic) is ad traffic that can be identified with routine filters: known crawlers and bots, traffic from known data-center IP ranges, and activity that declares itself non-human. SIVT (sophisticated invalid traffic) needs advanced analysis to detect: hijacked devices, malware-driven browsing, cookie stuffing and other traffic designed to look like a person. The Media Rating Council's invalid-traffic guidelines define both classes. # Proxy Glossary Term Pages ## What is ASN targeting? URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/asn-targeting/ Updated: 2026-11-06 ASN targeting is choosing proxy exit IPs by Autonomous System Number, the number a regional internet registry assigns to one network operator such as an ISP or mobile carrier. Every routed IP address is announced by an ASN, so a request targeted at AS7922 leaves from an address on Comcast's network. ### How autonomous systems and ASNs work The internet is a mesh of separately run networks. A network that sets its own routing policy and exchanges routes with its neighbors over BGP is an autonomous system, and it is known by its number. IANA gives blocks of numbers to the five regional internet registries (AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RIPE NCC), which assign them to operators in their region. Early numbers were 16-bit; 32-bit numbers (RFC 6793) now run far past 65,535. The ranges 64512–65534 and 4200000000–4294967294 are reserved for private use (RFC 6996) and never appear as the origin of a public address. An ASN is a routing identity, not a brand. One operator often runs several: a consumer broadband network, a mobile network, a business or backbone network, and others inherited from acquisitions. A small ISP that uses address space from its upstream network shows up under the upstream's ASN, not its own name. ### Why target proxies by ASN Country and city say where a visitor is. The ASN says whose network they are on, and some systems key on exactly that: - Ad campaigns bought for the subscribers of one ISP or carrier, which serve only to addresses on that network. - Offers, prices and landing pages shown only to one network's customers, such as bundled streaming or carrier billing. - Fraud and rate-limit rules that score networks differently, so the same request is challenged on one ISP and accepted on another. - Bug reports that read "it only fails on network X", which you can reproduce only from network X. For most scraping and monitoring, country or city targeting is enough and keeps the pool of exits large. Add an ASN when the network itself is the variable you are testing. ### How to find the ASN you need Start from an IP address you know is on the network, such as one from a customer report or your own connection on that ISP. Team Cymru's whois service maps it to its ASN in one command: ```bash whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v IP_ADDRESS" # Returns: AS | IP | BGP Prefix | CC | Registry | Allocated | AS Name ``` Starting from a name instead, search for the operator on bgp.he.net or RIPEstat, which list the prefixes each ASN announces. PeeringDB adds a network type such as Cable/DSL/ISP, NSP or Content. Pick the ASN whose prefixes are in your target country and whose type is access, not transit or hosting. Well-known examples: AS7922 is Comcast in the United States, AS7018 is AT&T, AS3320 is Deutsche Telekom and AS2856 is BT. Large operators have more than one ASN, so confirm with a lookup rather than a list. ### How to check that ASN targeting worked Ask for an exit with the ASN on the proxy username, read the exit IP from an echo service, then look that IP up from your own connection: ```bash # 1. The exit IP for a session targeted at AS7922 in the United States curl -s -x http://YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT \ -U "YOUR_USERNAME-country-us-asn-7922-session-check01:YOUR_PASSWORD" \ https://api.ipify.org # 2. The network that announces it whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v EXIT_IP" ``` Repeat with five or ten session names and count how many exits match. ASN lookups agree across tools more often than city lookups, because they come from public routing tables rather than geolocation estimates. If an exit's ASN is wrong, the targeting is wrong; a wrong city may only be two databases disagreeing. ### Common mistakes - **Writing the prefix.** Some services take `AS7922`, others only `7922`. TrueProxies takes digits only. - **Picking a transit or business ASN.** Operators that run separate backbone, business and consumer networks put household addresses in the consumer one. - **Expecting a city from an ASN.** A national ISP's ASN covers the whole country. Add city targeting if the city matters. - **Narrowing too far.** A city plus a small regional ASN can leave few exits or none. Start with country and ASN, check the exits, then add a city. - **Judging by one exit.** Check several sessions before deciding the targeting works or fails. ### ASN targeting on TrueProxies [Residential IPv4 Standard](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-gb/) and [Residential IPv4 Premium](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-premium/) take an ASN on the proxy username as `asn-` plus digits, alone or with country, city or region (on Premium, send region or city, not both). [Unlimited Bandwidth](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/unlimited-residential-proxies/) and [Unlimited Pro](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/unlimited-pro-residential-proxies/) target by country and city, and [Residential IPv4 Lite](https://trueproxies.com/proxies/residential-ipv4-lite/) by country only. There is no targeting by ISP name: look up the ASN and send the number. A malformed value, or `asn` on a service that does not offer it, is refused at once instead of falling back to an untargeted exit; over HTTP the 407 carries the reason in the `X-Proxy-Reason` header. A valid ASN with no exit free at that moment returns 503, a coverage miss that can succeed later. The [connection reference](https://docs.trueproxies.com/proxy-instructions/how-to-connect/#options) lists every option, and each [country guide](https://trueproxies.com/locations/) lists the networks seen in our own tests. Standard traffic packs are 1 GB for $1.10, down to $0.60/GB, and Premium 1 GB for $1.49, down to $1.00/GB. ### Questions about ASN targeting **What is the difference between ASN targeting and ISP targeting?** ISP targeting picks exits by an operator's name; ASN targeting picks them by routing number. One ISP can run several ASNs, so ASN targeting is the more exact of the two. TrueProxies offers ASN targeting on Residential IPv4 Standard and Premium and no targeting by ISP name. **Is ASN targeting the same as targeting a mobile carrier?** Only when the carrier's mobile network has its own ASN and the exits are on it. An ASN that a carrier uses for both fixed and mobile service can return fixed-line exits. TrueProxies Residential IPv4 exits are on residential ISP networks, and TrueProxies does not sell mobile carrier IPs. **How do I find the ASN of my own connection?** The TrueProxies IP leak test shows your public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with their ASN. From a terminal, run whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v YOUR_IP" with your public address, or paste the address into bgp.he.net. **Why do IP databases show different names for the same ASN?** Registry records carry legal company names, while many databases use brand names or their own labels. Compare AS numbers, not names. **Does ASN targeting work with sticky sessions?** Yes. Add a session name to the same username and requests carrying it ask for the same exit within the ASN. On TrueProxies, Residential IPv4 Standard takes a session duration from 1 second to 24 hours and Premium from 3 minutes to 24 hours. --- ## What is a sticky session? URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/sticky-session/ Updated: 2026-11-06 A sticky session is a proxy setting that keeps one exit IP across connections for a set time. The client sends the same session name with each request, and the proxy reuses the assigned exit while that IP stays available. Rotating sessions change the exit per connection or request; static proxies keep one fixed IP for the whole term. ### How a sticky session works Most residential proxy services take the session in the proxy username, for example `YOUR_USERNAME-session-cart01`. The gateway maps each session name to an exit. The first connection with a new name gets an exit from the pool; later connections with the same name go out through it until the session duration ends or the IP leaves the pool. A different name asks for a different exit, though two names can land on the same one. Residential exits are household connections, so a sticky IP can disappear early when the device goes offline or the ISP reassigns the address. Treat the duration as an upper bound, not a promise. Services also count it differently: from the first request, from the last, or in fixed clock windows, where a session that starts two minutes before a boundary keeps its IP for two minutes. ### Sticky vs rotating sessions Pick by whether the steps of a job depend on each other. | Question | Rotating | Sticky | | --- | --- | --- | | When the exit changes | On a new connection (on some services, each request) | When the session duration ends or the IP leaves the pool | | Fits | Independent requests: product pages, search results, price checks | Flows with state: sign-in, cart, checkout, multi-page forms | | Load on one IP | Spread across many exits | Concentrated on one exit | | What breaks | A flow whose steps arrive from different IPs | Per-IP rate limits when too many requests share one exit | A kept-alive connection stays on one exit even in rotating mode, so a test that reuses connections can make rotation look sticky. [Rotating proxies vs sticky sessions](https://trueproxies.com/blog/sticky-vs-rotating-proxies/) covers rotation models and username forms. ### Sticky session vs static proxy A static proxy is an address assigned to you for the term you pay for, such as a datacenter IP or a static ISP address. It does not depend on a household device staying online, and when it is dedicated, nobody else sends traffic from it. A sticky session borrows an address from a shared pool for minutes or hours, then gives it back. Choose static when a destination must see the same IP for days or weeks: a long-lived account, or an API that accepts only whitelisted addresses. Choose sticky when the flow lasts minutes to hours and the next one can start on a fresh residential IP. ### Not the same as load-balancer sticky sessions A load balancer with sticky sessions, also called session affinity, sends every request from one client to the same backend server, usually by cookie or by hashing the client's IP. A proxy sticky session works at the other end of the connection: it keeps the IP the destination sees the same. ### How long a sticky session should be Set the session duration to the longest flow you run plus a margin, not to the most the service allows. A checkout that takes four minutes needs ten, not 24 hours. A longer session puts more requests on one IP and raises the chance that the household connection drops mid-flow. Give each account, browser profile or job its own session name. One name reused across unrelated jobs puts them all on one IP. ### How to test a sticky session Send the same session name to an IP echo service at an interval and log each exit with a timestamp. The point where the IP changes is the hold time you measured for that time of day: ```bash for i in $(seq 1 10); do printf '%s ' "$(date -u +%H:%M:%S)" curl -s -x http://YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT \ -U "YOUR_USERNAME-session-test01-lifetime-1800:YOUR_PASSWORD" \ https://api.ipify.org echo sleep 60 done ``` `lifetime-1800` asks for 30 minutes; leave it out on a service that has no session duration setting. Then run the real flow, because a site can stop answering one IP while that IP still works elsewhere. ### Common mistakes - **A new session name on retry.** A retry wrapper that rebuilds the username loses the IP the flow started on. - **Ignoring the cookie and IP pair.** If the exit changes mid-login, the site sees your cookies arrive from a new address and may ask you to sign in again. Restart the flow on a new session rather than carry on. - **Bulk collection on one session.** Hundreds of parallel requests on one sticky IP hit per-IP rate limits that rotation would have spread out. ### Sticky sessions on TrueProxies The **Proxy setup** tab offers three session types: **Rotating**, **Sticky** and **Sticky ports**. Sticky adds `-session-` and a name of 1 to 32 letters or digits to the username, plus `-lifetime-` in seconds where the product accepts a session duration. **Sticky ports** suit tools that take one proxy per host and port: each port, SOCKS5 10000–10999 or HTTP 20000–20999, keeps one sticky IP for up to 24 hours while that IP stays available. | Product | Session duration you can set | When none is set | | --- | --- | --- | | Residential IPv4 Standard | 1 second to 24 hours | 10 minutes | | Residential IPv4 Premium | 3 minutes to 24 hours | 10 minutes | | Unlimited Bandwidth | 1 minute to 24 hours, in whole minutes | 10 minutes | | Unlimited Pro | 1 minute to 24 hours, in whole minutes | 10 minutes | | Residential IPv4 Lite | None: the IP holds while the session keeps being used | Not applicable | | Datacenter IPv6 and Residential IPv6 | 1 minute to 24 hours, in UTC clock windows | 10 minutes | Sessions are best effort. On Residential IPv4, when one site stops answering through a sticky IP that still works elsewhere, the session keeps its IP and that connection gets **No response**; retry the request. The [connection reference](https://docs.trueproxies.com/proxy-instructions/how-to-connect/#rotating-and-sticky) has the full syntax. ### Questions about sticky sessions **How long does a sticky session last?** As long as the session duration you set, unless the exit IP leaves the pool first. On TrueProxies Residential IPv4 that is up to 24 hours, with 10 minutes when none is set; Residential IPv4 Lite holds the IP while the session keeps being used. **Is a sticky proxy the same as a static proxy?** No. A sticky session reuses an IP from a shared pool for a limited time. A static proxy is a fixed address assigned to you for your plan's term. Use static when a destination must see one IP for days; use sticky for flows that last minutes or hours. **Can two sticky sessions get the same IP?** Yes. A session name requests an exit; it does not reserve an address for you alone. When separation matters, give each account its own session name and check the exit IPs. **Why did my sticky session change IP early?** Either the household connection behind it went offline or was reassigned, or the client sent a different session name, often from a retry that rebuilt the username. Log the username your tool sends with each request to rule out the second cause. **Should I use sticky sessions for web scraping?** Only for the steps that need state, such as a sign-in or a paginated search tied to a session. Independent page loads spread better over rotating sessions. --- ## What is IP reputation? URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/ip-reputation/ Updated: 2026-11-06 IP reputation is the judgment that blocklists, fraud tools and websites make about an IP address from its history and its network: abuse reports, spam and attack traffic, bot activity, and whether the address belongs to a home ISP, a mobile carrier or a hosting network. A poor reputation brings CAPTCHAs, throttling or blocks, whatever the request contains. ### What goes into IP reputation There is no single score. Each system builds its own from a mix of four kinds of data: - **Abuse lists.** Spamhaus, AbuseIPDB, IPsum and similar feeds list addresses seen sending spam, scanning, brute-forcing logins or hosting malware. Some collect reports from many sites, others from honeypots. - **Network type.** IP databases classify ranges as residential ISP, mobile, business, hosting or education. Hosting ranges carry most automated traffic, so many sites challenge them by default. - **Anonymizer flags.** Lists of known VPN endpoints, Tor exits and proxies. They describe what an address is used for, not whether it has misbehaved. - **First-party history.** A site's own record of what the address did there: failed sign-ins, request rates, challenge results. Bot-management vendors pool this across their customers. It is usually the deciding input, and the one you cannot look up. Reputation moves. Listings expire when reports stop, an address the ISP reassigns inherits whatever the last user left behind, and on IPv6 many systems judge a whole /64 rather than one address. ### How websites use it Reputation sets the starting point for a request. A clean residential address may get the page straight away; the same request from a listed hosting address may get a JavaScript challenge, a CAPTCHA, a slow response or a 403. What happens next depends on the other signals a site reads, such as the TLS and browser fingerprint, cookies and behavior. Mobile carrier addresses are a special case. Carrier-grade NAT puts many subscribers behind one public IPv4 address, so blocking it blocks real customers, and sites tend to be careful with them. Mail is another: Spamhaus's PBL lists many residential ranges because home connections should not send email directly. That listing is a mail policy, not a sign of abuse, and websites rarely apply it to web traffic. ### How to check the reputation of a proxy IP 1. Get the exit IP the target would see, from the [Proxy Checker](https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/) or an IP echo request through the proxy. 2. Look it up from your own connection, not through the proxy: AbuseIPDB for reports and a confidence score, Spamhaus's lookup for its lists, and an IP database for the network type. 3. Read each listing for what it is. An abuse report from last week matters; a PBL entry or a "residential" label does not. 4. For a rotating pool, check a sample: 50 to 100 exits in the country you use, and record the share with recent abuse reports. One lookup describes one address at one moment. 5. Compare with the outcome on your own target: challenge and block rates per exit over a representative batch. That is the reputation that counts for your job. ### Common mistakes - **Treating a clean score as a pass.** A listed address will often be challenged, but an unlisted one can still be blocked on fingerprint or behavior. - **Buying on pool size.** A larger pool does not mean cleaner exits; measured challenge rates on your target tell you more. - **Spending the reputation yourself.** Retry loops, hundreds of parallel requests on one sticky IP and repeated failed sign-ins become the address's history, for you and for whoever uses it next. - **Ignoring IPv6 prefixes.** Changing the last bits of an IPv6 address does not escape a block applied to its /64. ### IP reputation on TrueProxies Residential IPv4 exits are addresses on residential ISP networks rather than hosting ranges. Reputation still varies from one address to the next, so TrueProxies does not promise a clean IP or a score. Record the exit with each response, and when a target challenges one, open a new connection on a rotating session or send a new session name on a sticky one to get another exit. The [Proxy Checker](https://trueproxies.com/tools/proxy-checker/) shows the exit IP of each check; it does not test reputation. ### Questions about IP reputation **What is a good IP reputation score?** There is no shared scale. AbuseIPDB's confidence of abuse runs from 0 to 100, where 0 means no recent reports; commercial fraud scores also run from 0 to 100 but weigh different data. Check that an exit has no recent abuse reports, then judge it by how your target responds. **Do residential proxies have a better reputation than datacenter proxies?** On network type, usually: many sites challenge hosting ranges by default and residential ranges are not treated that way. On history, it varies by address. A residential IP that many people have used for automation can carry more reports than a little-used datacenter IP. **How do I fix a bad IP reputation?** For an address you own, stop the abuse and request delisting from each list; many listings expire once reports stop. For a proxy exit, move to another exit and keep request rates and retries low so the next one stays usable. **Can a website tell that an IP is a proxy?** Sometimes. Commercial databases flag addresses seen acting as proxies or VPNs, and a site can combine that with fingerprints and behavior. No proxy type is undetectable. --- ## GIVT vs SIVT: what is the difference? URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/givt-vs-sivt/ Updated: 2026-11-06 GIVT (general invalid traffic) is ad traffic that routine filters can identify: declared crawlers, known data-center IP ranges, non-browser user agents and pre-fetched pages. SIVT (sophisticated invalid traffic) takes advanced analysis to find: bots posing as people, hijacked devices, adware and malware, and spoofed sites or apps. The Media Rating Council defines both classes. ### Where the terms come from The Media Rating Council, which accredits ad measurement in the United States, split invalid traffic into two classes in its invalid traffic detection and filtration guidelines, first published in 2015. The split is about how hard the traffic is to detect, not how harmful it is. Measurement the MRC accredits filters GIVT as a baseline; SIVT detection takes more work and is accredited on its own, so vendors state whether theirs covers it. Two shared lists support the routine part: the IAB Tech Lab Spiders and Bots List of declared crawlers, and the Trustworthy Accountability Group's Data Center IP List of hosting ranges that send non-human traffic. ### What GIVT covers GIVT is traffic that announces itself or comes from places that consistently produce non-human traffic. Most of it is not fraud: a search engine crawler loading a page with ads on it is GIVT. - Declared crawlers, spiders and monitoring bots, identified by user agent or list. - Known data-center traffic: hosting and cloud ranges that are a consistent source of non-human requests. - Non-browser user agents and unknown browsers. - Pre-fetch and pre-render loads where no person ever saw the ad. - Simple activity rules, such as implausible repeat counts from one source in a short window. ### What SIVT covers SIVT hides. Finding it takes analysis across many signals and sessions, sometimes with human review. - Bots and automated browsers that present themselves as real users. - Hijacked devices and sessions, and adware or malware that loads or clicks ads without the user knowing. - Domain and app spoofing, where a bid request claims to come from a site or app it does not. - Incentivized or manipulated activity, such as paid clicks, or falsified viewability and location data. - Cookie stuffing and other attribution fraud. ### GIVT and SIVT compared | Aspect | GIVT | SIVT | | --- | --- | --- | | Found by | Lists and standard checks | Analysis across many signals, models and human review | | Typical sources | Crawlers, data-center IPs, pre-fetch | Disguised bots, hijacked devices, malware, spoofed inventory | | Usual intent | Often harmless | Usually deliberate fraud | | Filtering | Baseline in accredited measurement | Accredited separately; check the vendor's scope | ### What it means for ad verification checks A verification check is non-human traffic by definition, so it falls into one of these classes. From a datacenter IP it is GIVT: many ad stacks filter it before the auction, so the check sees fewer ads, different ads or a clean landing page. From a residential IPv4 exit the data-center rule does not apply, but SIVT models still read the browser, the behavior and the exit's history, and heavily reused proxy exits can be flagged. Keep checks small and passive. Load pages and never click ads: a click from a check is an invalid click on someone's budget. Record the exit, the time and the response so a reviewer can tell your sample apart from the traffic being measured. [Ad verification tools vs proxies](https://trueproxies.com/blog/ad-verification-tools-vs-proxies/) explains where vendor measurement ends and spot checks begin. ### Reading an invalid traffic report - Ask whether the rate covers GIVT only, or GIVT and SIVT. Reports often show them separately. - Ask whether traffic blocked before the bid is counted. Pre-bid filtering lowers the post-bid rate without changing how much invalid traffic was offered. - Compare rates by placement and app, not only by campaign. Spoofed and hijacked inventory clusters in a few sources. - Check what the ad platform credits back. Platforms generally do not charge for invalid traffic they detect, but the rules differ by platform and campaign type. ### GIVT, SIVT and TrueProxies exits Residential IPv4 exits are on residential ISP networks, so they do not fall under the data-center rule for GIVT; SIVT scoring still applies to everything else about a check. Datacenter IPv6 is hosting traffic and is not recommended for ad checks. The [ad verification proxies](https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/ad-verification/) page shows which product fits which check, with blank evidence templates. ### Questions about GIVT and SIVT **Is GIVT fraud?** Usually not. GIVT is mostly declared crawlers, monitoring and pre-fetch that no person saw. It is removed from measurement and billing because it is not an audience, not because someone meant harm. Deliberate fraud usually falls under SIVT. **Is all data-center traffic invalid?** No. The lists aim at hosting ranges that consistently produce non-human traffic, and some people do browse through data centers, for example behind corporate gateways or VPNs. In practice many ad stacks still treat data-center addresses as GIVT, so a check from one rarely sees what a household sees. **Can residential proxy traffic be SIVT?** Yes. Network type is one input. SIVT models also read device and browser signals, behavior and an address's history, and traffic from heavily reused proxy exits can be classified as sophisticated invalid traffic. **Who decides what counts as invalid traffic?** The Media Rating Council sets the measurement guidelines, with shared lists from IAB Tech Lab and the Trustworthy Accountability Group. Each ad platform and verification vendor applies its own detection within that framework, so two vendors can report different rates for the same campaign. --- ## What is ad cloaking? URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/ad-cloaking/ Updated: 2026-11-06 Ad cloaking is showing one page to ad reviewers, verification tools and data-center IPs, and a different page to the people an ad targets. A filter at the landing URL or in the redirect chain sorts each visitor; reviewers get a compliant "white page" while targets get the real offer, a scam or a forced redirect. ### How cloaking works The advertiser submits an ad whose destination passes review. Behind that URL sits a cloaker: a script or a paid traffic-filter service that inspects each visit and decides which page to return. The compliant page, often called the white page or safe page, is what the ad network's reviewers and crawlers see. The target page, the money page, goes only to visitors who match the advertiser's profile. Google researchers' 2016 study [Cloak of Visibility](https://research.google/pubs/cloak-of-visibility-detecting-when-machines-browse-a-different-web/) took apart commercial cloaking software and grouped its checks into network, browser and contextual fingerprinting. The groups still describe the field: - **Network.** The visitor's IP range, ASN and reverse DNS. Ad network and verification ranges, data centers, VPNs and offices get the white page. - **Browser.** User agent, JavaScript support, headless-browser markers, screen size, language and a time zone that should match the IP's country. - **Context.** Whether the visit carries the click parameters the ad network adds, the referrer, cookies from an earlier visit, the time of day and whether this IP has been seen before. Many cloakers show the money page once per IP. ### Cloaking or localization? Sites legitimately serve different pages by country, language and device. The line Google and Meta draw in their ad policies is about who is shown what: giving ad review systems different content from what users get is cloaking, and both list it under circumventing systems. The test is whether a reviewer in the same place, on the same device, would get the same page as a customer. A German visitor getting a German page priced in euros is localization. A data-center visitor in Germany getting a recipe blog while German households get a miracle diet is cloaking. ### How to test for cloaking 1. Find the ad and its destination without clicking it: in Google's Ads Transparency Center or Meta's Ad Library, or by reading the link from the publisher page's source. Keep the URL exactly as the ad links to it, tracking parameters included. 2. Load it from a datacenter IP and from a residential IP in the targeted city, each in a clean browser profile with the device type the campaign targets. 3. Record for each load every redirect hop with its status code, the final URL, a screenshot and a hash of the returned HTML. 4. Repeat the residential load from a second, fresh exit, and again later in the day. A cloaker that shows the money page once per IP shows the white page to a repeat visitor. 5. Call it cloaking when two consistent residential results differ from the datacenter result. One difference is a lead to repeat, not proof. ### Common mistakes - **Testing from the office or a VPN.** Both sit on cloakers' white-page lists. - **Reusing one residential IP.** The second visit from it can get the white page, which reads as "no cloaking". - **Checking with JavaScript off or a plain HTTP client.** Many cloakers run a script check first and treat a visitor that cannot run it as a bot. - **Desktop checks for a mobile campaign.** Device type is one of the first filters. - **Clicking the ad.** It spends the advertiser's budget and records an invalid click, and loading the destination URL shows the same page. ### Cloaking checks on TrueProxies Residential IPv4 gives the consumer side of the comparison: city targeting on Residential IPv4 Standard, Premium, Unlimited Bandwidth and Unlimited Pro (major cities), and [ASN targeting](https://trueproxies.com/glossary/asn-targeting/) on Standard and Premium for campaigns bought by ISP. On a rotating session each new connection asks for a new exit, which gives every repeat the fresh IP it needs. The [ad verification checks](https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/ad-verification/#ad-verification-checks) list the fields to capture, and the evidence kit has blank templates for them. ### Questions about ad cloaking **Is ad cloaking illegal?** Cloaking breaks the ad policies of Google, Meta and most ad networks, which suspend accounts for it. Whether a law is broken depends on what the hidden page does, such as selling banned products or taking payments for a scam. This is not legal advice. **What is a cloaker?** Software or a paid service that sits in front of a landing page and decides, visit by visit, whether to show the compliant page or the real one. It scores the visitor's IP, browser and context against lists of reviewer and bot traffic. **Why do cloaked ads show the real page to residential IPs?** Because reviewers and crawlers mostly browse from data-center and corporate networks. Sending the real page only to consumer ISP addresses in the target country keeps it away from most review systems, which is also why a check from a residential exit is how you see it. **Is SEO cloaking the same as ad cloaking?** Same technique, different audience. SEO cloaking shows search engine crawlers a page built to rank and users something else; ad cloaking hides from ad review. Google treats both as violations, under its spam policies for search and its ad policies for ads. --- ## What is malvertising? URL: https://trueproxies.com/glossary/malvertising/ Updated: 2026-11-06 Malvertising is malware or fraud delivered through legitimate advertising: a paid ad, or the page it links to, carries a forced redirect, a fake software update, a phishing page or a malicious download. It runs on ordinary sites and search results, and the payload is often shown only to chosen countries, devices and home IP addresses. ### Common forms of malvertising - **Malicious creatives.** Script inside a display ad that sends the whole page to another site without a click, mostly on mobile, or opens pop-unders. - **Fake download pages.** Search ads for popular software that lead to lookalike sites serving an infected installer. - **Scam landing pages.** Fake tech support warnings, fake browser updates, investment schemes with invented celebrity endorsements, and pages that phish bank or wallet logins. - **Notification traps.** Pages that push a browser notification prompt, then use the permission to send scam ads to the device. - **Exploit delivery.** Ad code that probes the browser for an unpatched flaw. Common when browser plug-ins were, rarer now, still aimed at outdated browsers. ### How it gets past review Ad networks scan creatives and landing pages before approval and after. Malvertising works around the scan rather than through it: - **Cloaking.** Reviewers and scanners get a clean page; targets get the payload. See [ad cloaking](https://trueproxies.com/glossary/ad-cloaking/). - **Delayed activation.** The creative or landing page turns malicious days after approval, often by swapping one script or one redirect hop. - **Narrow targeting.** The payload fires only for one country, one device type, first-time visitors or residential IPs, so a scan from anywhere else sees nothing. - **Compromised accounts.** Ads run from hijacked advertiser accounts that have a clean history. - **Long redirect chains.** Several hops through tracking and parked domains, with the payload host changed often. ### Malvertising, adware and ad fraud The three are often confused. Malvertising uses real ad channels to attack the person who sees the ad. Adware is software already on the device that injects or loads ads. Ad fraud takes advertisers' money with fake impressions and clicks, which measurement counts as [invalid traffic](https://trueproxies.com/glossary/givt-vs-sivt/). Adware that loads ads in the background is both: a device problem for its owner and invalid traffic for the advertiser. ### How to check a campaign safely 1. Work in a disposable environment: a virtual machine or container with a fresh browser profile and no saved logins. Treat every file a check downloads as live malware and do not open it. 2. Load the publisher page or landing URL through a residential exit in each targeted market, with the device type the campaign targets. Do not click the ad. 3. Capture the redirect chain with status codes, the final URL, a screenshot, and any download or permission prompt. 4. Look up each domain in the chain with Google Safe Browsing's site status and a URL scanner such as VirusTotal. Newly registered domains and hops across unrelated top-level domains are warning signs. 5. Repeat from a datacenter exit. If the payload appears only on the residential route, the campaign is also cloaked. Report what you find through the report link in Google's Ads Transparency Center or Meta's Ad Library, or to the publisher's ad operations team, with the creative, time, market and redirect chain attached. ### Common mistakes - **Checking on a work laptop.** A live payload is aimed at exactly that kind of browser. - **Checking desktop only.** Forced redirects are mostly a mobile problem. - **Checking one market.** A campaign can be clean in the country you check and malicious in the next. - **Clicking the ad to see where it goes.** It bills the advertiser and can trigger the payload on your machine. ### Malvertising checks on TrueProxies Residential IPv4 exits put a check inside the markets a campaign targets, by country and city, or by ASN on Standard and Premium. A rotating session gives each check a fresh exit. Datacenter IPv6 is not built for these checks: it is filtered and cloaked as hosting traffic and cannot load hosts that have no IPv6 address. The [ad verification proxies](https://trueproxies.com/use-cases/ad-verification/) page has the capture fields and evidence templates. ### Questions about malvertising **Can you get malware just by viewing an ad?** Rarely today, but it has happened. Exploits delivered through ad code needed an unpatched browser or plug-in; most malvertising now needs a step from the user, such as installing a fake update or typing a password. Keep the browser updated and treat unexpected download and permission prompts as hostile. **Do ad blockers stop malvertising?** They block most ad requests, so they block most malvertising with them. They do not stop a scam page reached through an ordinary link or a lookalike site found in search results. **Who is responsible for removing malvertising?** Ad networks and exchanges scan and remove creatives, and publishers use creative-security tools to block bad ads on their pages. The advertiser account behind the ad is usually fake or hijacked. Report it to both the network and the publisher. **Why does a malicious ad only appear in some countries?** Attackers target the countries where a scam pays and keep the payload away from the places reviewers check from. That is why a check needs an exit inside each targeted market. # Blog Articles ## UDP over SOCKS5 is live on residential plans URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/udp-over-socks5-is-live/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-10-04 · Updated: 2026-10-04 SOCKS5 on TrueProxies now carries UDP to ports 443 and 53, so QUIC, HTTP/3 and DNS go through the same proxy as your TCP traffic. It is included on every paid Unlimited Bandwidth plan and Residential IPv4 Standard and Premium traffic pack, with the same host, port and login. ### What changed SOCKS5 on port 1080 now accepts UDP relay requests (UDP ASSOCIATE) and carries UDP packets to destination ports 443 and 53. QUIC and HTTP/3 connections to websites, and DNS lookups, now go through the same proxy as your TCP traffic. HTTP and HTTPS proxies stay TCP-only. That is how HTTP CONNECT works with every provider: it opens a TCP tunnel and has no way to carry UDP. ### Who gets it UDP over SOCKS5 is included at no extra cost on every paid Unlimited Bandwidth plan, the Free trial and every Residential IPv4 Standard and Premium traffic pack. It is not available on Residential IPv4 Lite or Datacenter IPv6. There is nothing to change in your settings: same host, same port, same username and password. Sticky sessions keep one exit IP for TCP and UDP together. ### Limits worth knowing UDP goes to destination ports 443 and 53 only. Each service can hold up to 256 UDP connections, and a UDP connection closes after 60 seconds without traffic. Keep packets at 1,400 bytes or less. Larger packets do not get through the residential path. UDP traffic counts toward your traffic like TCP does, including the small SOCKS5 header on every packet. Residential exits can drop some packets at very high packet rates. QUIC retransmits lost packets. ### How to try it Use any client that supports SOCKS5 with UDP. In Python, PySocks can send UDP through a SOCKS5 proxy, and most SOCKS5 libraries for Go, Rust and Node expose UDP ASSOCIATE. Chrome and Firefox do not send QUIC through a SOCKS5 proxy; they fall back to HTTP/2 over TCP, so the gain today is for your own tools, DNS lookups and HTTP/3 clients that implement SOCKS5 UDP. The dashboard shows a hint under SOCKS5 on the service page. The proxy protocols documentation covers SOCKS5 connection settings. --- ## Ad verification cost per check: the bandwidth and proxy math URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/ad-verification-cost-per-check/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-30 · Updated: 2026-09-30 What one ad check costs on a per-GB residential plan depends on what it loads. Measured on 30 September 2026: a redirect-chain check moves 0.8 MB at the median, a full render with a screenshot 3.8 MB, a YouTube watch page 7.6 MB. At Residential IPv4 Standard traffic pack rates that is $0.88, $4.18 and $8.36 per 1,000 checks on the 1 GB traffic pack, and $0.48, $2.28 and $4.56 on the 5,000 GB traffic pack. ### How much does one ad verification check cost? On a per-GB residential plan, a check costs whatever data it loads times the plan's rate. Measured on 30 September 2026 from a direct connection, a redirect-chain check that reads whole documents moved 0.8 MB at the median, a full browser render with a screenshot moved 3.8 MB, and a YouTube watch page with eight seconds of playback moved 7.6 MB. On the Residential IPv4 Standard 1 GB traffic pack ($1.10) that is $0.88, $4.18 and $8.36 per 1,000 checks; on the 5,000 GB traffic pack ($0.60/GB) it is $0.48, $2.28 and $4.56. Those are medians. The 90th percentile was 5.6 MB, 6.4 MB and 9.7 MB, so budget for the spread, not the middle. This article shows where the numbers come from, how to cut the data a check loads, and when an unlimited plan priced by speed beats paying per gigabyte. The same table sits on the ad verification proxies page and is refreshed with each measurement. - Redirect-chain check (document requests only): 0.8 MB median, $0.88 per 1,000 on the 1 GB traffic pack rate, $0.48 on the 5,000 GB traffic pack rate. - Full render with a screenshot: 3.8 MB median, $4.18 and $2.28 per 1,000. - Video-heavy page (YouTube watch page, 8 s of playback): 7.6 MB median, $8.36 and $4.56 per 1,000. - Residential IPv4 Unlimited at 10 Mbps moves at most 4.5 GB an hour, so one day ($7.35) caps at about 28,000 full renders at 3.8 MB, country-level targeting only. - Reading only response headers on a redirect check moves a few kilobytes per hop instead of the whole document. ### What a check loads An ad verification check is a request or a browser session through a proxy exit in the market you are auditing, plus the evidence you keep. What it loads depends on what you need to prove. A redirect-chain check follows an ad click URL or an affiliate link hop by hop and records each status code and host. With a plain HTTP client it fetches only documents: no images, scripts or fonts. Publisher homepages still return large HTML, which is why the median was 0.8 MB and one homepage returned 5.6 MB of HTML alone. A full render opens the page in a real browser, waits for the network to go quiet, and takes a screenshot. That loads every script, image, ad tag and tracker the page calls, which is the point: the screenshot shows the creative in its slot the way a local visitor sees it. The median across ten publisher homepages was 3.8 MB; nine of fifty loads did not reach the load event within 60 seconds and are excluded, and one publisher served a small bot-wall page instead of its homepage. A video-heavy page adds media segments. Five YouTube watch pages with autoplay allowed and eight seconds of playback moved 7.6 MB at the median and 12.2 MB at most. A pre-roll ad check that waits for the ad to play will sit at the top of that range. ### Measured medians by check type Method: 30 September 2026, a single direct (non-proxy) connection, headless Chromium 153 driven by Playwright, a fresh browser context for every load so nothing is cached, bytes summed from the HAR transfer sizes. Ten ad-supported publisher homepages (BBC, The Guardian, CNN, Forbes, Weather.com, ESPN, Reuters, Spiegel, Le Monde, The Independent), five loads each for the render and redirect types; five YouTube watch pages, ten loads each, for the video type. The redirect type used a plain HTTP client following up to ten hops. No ad was clicked. | Check type | Loads | Median | 90th percentile | Range | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Redirect chain only (documents, no subresources) | 50 | 0.8 MB | 5.6 MB | 0.002 MB to 5.6 MB | | Full render with screenshot | 41 of 50 completed | 3.8 MB | 6.4 MB | 0.03 MB to 8.1 MB | | Video-heavy page (YouTube watch page, 8 s) | 50 | 7.6 MB | 9.7 MB | 4.4 MB to 12.2 MB | Limits: this pass ran from one direct connection, not from residential exits in each market, so it measures page weight rather than per-country ad payloads. Ad stacks serve different creatives by geography and by network type, and a residential exit in the target country can receive more ad calls than an office connection. The per-country residential pass is the next measurement and the table will be updated with it. Treat these numbers as the floor for a full render and the order of magnitude for the rest. ### Cost per 1,000 checks by plan TrueProxies sells two residential IPv4 billing models. Residential IPv4 Standard is sold in traffic packs from 1 GB to 5,000 GB, and traffic never expires: 1 GB for $1.10, down to $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB traffic pack, with country, city, region and ASN targeting. Unlimited plans bill a speed tier for a duration with no per-GB charge, from $4.08 for one hour at 10 Mbps and $7.35 for a day, with country and city targeting. Prices as of 30 September 2026. | Check type | Data per 1,000 checks (median) | 1 GB traffic pack, $1.10/GB | 5,000 GB traffic pack, $0.60/GB | Unlimited 10 Mbps daily, $7.35 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Redirect chain only | 0.8 GB | $0.88 | $0.48 | included, up to ~135,000 checks a day at full use | | Full render with screenshot | 3.8 GB | $4.18 | $2.28 | included, up to ~28,000 checks a day at full use | | Video-heavy page | 7.6 GB | $8.36 | $4.56 | included, up to ~14,000 checks a day at full use | The unlimited column is a theoretical ceiling: 10 Mbps moves 4.5 GB an hour and 108 GB a day at 100% utilization, and real throughput depends on the targets, your concurrency and how long each page takes to settle. It also targets by country and city only, so a check that needs a specific network (ASN) belongs on a Standard or Premium traffic pack whatever the volume. The break-even is simple: one day of 10 Mbps unlimited costs the same as 6.7 GB at $1.10/GB or 12.3 GB at $0.60/GB, which is about 1,800 full renders at the small-pack rate or 3,200 at the large-pack rate. Above that, per day, unlimited is cheaper; below it, or for ASN checks, a traffic pack is. ### Cutting the data per check - Read headers, not bodies, on redirect checks. A redirect chain is fully described by each hop's status code and Location header. A HEAD request, or a GET that closes the connection after the headers arrive, moves a few kilobytes per hop instead of a multi-megabyte homepage. Only fetch the final document when you need its content. - Block what the screenshot does not need. For placement checks the ad slots and creatives must load, but fonts, analytics beacons and video preloads usually do not. Blocking by resource type in Playwright or Puppeteer typically removes a third or more of the bytes. Do not block ad-serving hosts, or you measure a page without the thing you are checking. - Reuse a sticky session for multi-page flows. A landing page followed by a checkout step can share one exit and one browser context, so shared scripts are fetched once. Set the session lifetime to the length of the flow. - Sample, do not census. Ten checks per market per day, at different hours, show a rotation problem as well as a thousand. Increase the sample only where a difference appears. - Skip video playback unless the ad is the video. Loading a watch page without autoplay measured about half the bytes of one with eight seconds of playback. ### Availability in the markets that ask for ad checks Search Console shows the ad verification page reached from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Japan and Australia. Every one of them is on the published residential IPv4 market snapshot of 12 July 2026, with the pool size and city coverage recorded on its country guide. Region and ASN targeting are Standard and Premium controls written on the proxy username; Unlimited plans target these markets by country and city. | Market | Residential IPv4 pool | City coverage | Country guide | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 10.5M+ | 50+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/usa-proxies/ | | United Kingdom | 3.5M+ | 20+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/united-kingdom-proxies/ | | Germany | 3.5M+ | 25+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/germany-proxies/ | | Spain | 4.0M+ | 20+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/spain-proxies/ | | France | 2.9M+ | 20+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/france-proxies/ | | Netherlands | 1.5M+ | 12+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/netherlands-proxies/ | | Japan | 3.6M+ | 20+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/japan-proxies/ | | Australia | 2.3M+ | 15+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/australia-proxies/ | | Canada | 3.0M+ | 20+ cities | trueproxies.com/locations/canada-proxies/ | The cost per check is the same in every market; only the pack size changes the rate. What changes by market is the ad payload, which is why the residential per-country measurement matters and is next on the list. ### How to measure your own workload Run twenty representative checks through the exit type and market you plan to use, record the HAR for each, and take the median and 90th percentile of the transfer sizes. The ad verification evidence kit ships a Playwright script that records a HAR, the redirect chain and a screenshot per check, and the field dictionary tells you which fields to keep. Multiply the 90th percentile by your monthly check count and put the result into the proxy cost calculator to compare traffic packs with unlimited plans for your actual volume. ```javascript import { readFileSync } from "node:fs"; const har = JSON.parse(readFileSync("check.har", "utf8")); let bytes = 0; for (const entry of har.log.entries) { const r = entry.response ?? {}; const transfer = typeof r._transferSize === "number" && r._transferSize >= 0 ? r._transferSize : null; bytes += transfer ?? Math.max(r.bodySize ?? 0, 0) + Math.max(r.headersSize ?? 0, 0); } console.log(`${(bytes / 1e6).toFixed(2)} MB over ${har.log.entries.length} requests`); ``` Record the exit reference and country with every HAR. A check that landed on the wrong exit is a wasted check, not a data point, and the preflight step in the evidence kit method exists to catch it before the page loads. ### FAQ How much bandwidth does ad verification use? Measured on 30 September 2026: about 0.8 MB for a redirect-chain check that reads whole documents, 3.8 MB for a full render with a screenshot and 7.6 MB for a video page, at the median. Header-only redirect checks use a few kilobytes per hop. Is there a cheap way to verify ads in a specific country? A redirect-chain check through a residential exit in that country costs under $2 per 1,000 on the 1 GB traffic pack rate and under $0.50 per 1,000 on the 5,000 GB traffic pack rate. Full renders cost $2 to $7 per 1,000 depending on the pack. Country-level monitoring at volume fits an unlimited plan from $7.35 a day. Does a screenshot cost extra bandwidth? No. The screenshot is written locally from the rendered page; the bandwidth is spent loading the page. A full-page screenshot of a long publisher page can, however, trigger lazy-loaded images below the fold, which is part of the 3.8 MB median. Why measure from a direct connection first? Because page weight is the largest component of the cost and can be measured without spending proxy traffic. The residential per-country pass, which captures how ad payloads differ by market and network type, is the next measurement and will replace the direct medians in the table. Which plan should I start with? A 1 GB or 3 GB traffic pack covers a few hundred full renders with city and ASN targeting, enough to measure your own median before committing to a larger pack or an unlimited plan. The ad verification proxies page lists the plan choice by check type. --- ## How to see ads in other countries (Google, Meta, YouTube) URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/how-to-see-ads-in-other-countries/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-30 · Updated: 2026-09-30 Start with the free official tools: Google's Ads Transparency Center and Meta's Ad Library list a brand's ads by region. When you need to see how an ad renders on a publisher page, what its landing page serves locally, or the local price, load the page through a residential proxy exit in that country and record what came back. ### How do I see the ads running in another country? Two ways, used together. The free official libraries show which ads a brand is running in a region: Google's Ads Transparency Center covers Search, YouTube and Display ads by advertiser and region, and Meta's Ad Library covers Facebook and Instagram by country. A residential proxy shows how an ad and its landing page appear to a person in that country: the slot it fills on a publisher page, the redirect it goes through, the local price and language on the destination, and whether the version served to consumers matches the version the library shows. This guide goes through the libraries first, then the proxy method step by step, then the difference between a VPN and a residential proxy for this job, and ends with a checklist you can run in an hour. It applies to your own campaigns (does the geo-targeting work?) and to competitors' (what are they running, and where does it lead?). - Use the Ads Transparency Center and the Meta Ad Library to list ads by region for free. They show creatives, formats and date ranges, not placements or landing pages. - Use a residential proxy exit in the target country or city to load publisher pages and landing pages as a local visitor. Record the exit, the redirect chain, the final URL and a screenshot. - A VPN usually exits from a datacenter IP, which ad stacks filter or serve differently; residential IPv4 is the exit type that matches the audience. - Never click ads during a check. Loading the page is enough and clicking your own or a competitor's ads creates invalid traffic. ### Free official tools first Google Ads Transparency Center (adstransparency.google.com). Search by advertiser name or domain, filter by region and date, and browse the text, image and video ads Google has shown for that advertiser, including YouTube ads. It is the fastest way to answer "is this brand advertising in Germany?" and to see creative variants. It does not show which publisher pages or search queries the ads ran on, the landing page as served, or the price a German visitor sees. Google Ad Preview and Diagnosis (inside a Google Ads account). It renders the search results page for a query as if you were in a chosen location, language and device, without recording impressions. It covers Search ads only and only for accounts you can sign into, and it shows Google's rendering, not a publisher's. Meta Ad Library (facebook.com/ads/library). Search by advertiser or keyword, filter by country and platform (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Audience Network), and see active ads with their formats and start dates. For ads about social issues, elections or politics, and for ads shown in the EU, Meta also publishes spend ranges and audience information. The library shows the ad as an object; it does not show where in a feed it appeared, what the click-through destination served in that country, or the landing page price. Other platforms publish libraries of their own for some regions, such as TikTok's commercial content library and LinkedIn's ad library. Check the platform's help pages for the current scope, because coverage differs by region and changes. ### What the libraries cannot show you Placement. A library lists the creative, not the page it ran on. Whether your display ad appeared on a reputable news site or next to content your brand-safety policy excludes is invisible there. So is the slot: above the fold, in an interstitial, in an in-article unit. The landing page as served. Click-through URLs go through trackers and geo-routers, and the destination often varies by country: a different storefront, a different currency, a fallback page. A cloaked campaign goes further and serves reviewers, verification vendors and datacenter IPs a compliant page while consumer IPs in the target country get the real one. Google's research paper on the technique, Cloak of Visibility, measured it across search and ad traffic. A library entry shows none of that. Localized prices and offers. "From €9.99" in Spain and "from £9.99" in the UK are two different campaigns to a local visitor and one creative to a library. The same goes for stock, delivery promises and legal footers that differ by jurisdiction. These are the checks the ad verification proxies page lists, and each needs a request from inside the market. ### The proxy method, step by step A residential proxy routes your request through an IP that a consumer ISP assigned to a household in the target country. Ad servers decide what to show from that IP before anything else loads, so the page you receive is the page a local visitor receives. Here is the procedure, in the order the evidence kit records it. 1. Pick the exit. Country is enough for a national campaign; a city or network (ASN) matters for local campaigns and for checks a client will dispute. On TrueProxies, targeting is written on the proxy username: USER-country-de or USER-country-de-city-berlin on Unlimited, Standard or Premium, USER-country-de-asn-3320 on Standard or Premium. The accepted options are in the connection reference. 2. Preflight the exit. Before loading anything, request an IP echo service through the proxy and record the exit's country. A check from the wrong country is not evidence. The free proxy checker does this server-side and records the exit for you. 3. Use a clean browser profile. Cookies, language and timezone all feed ad targeting. Start a fresh browser context per check, set the locale and timezone of the market, and do not sign into anything. 4. Load the page and wait. For a publisher page, wait until the network goes quiet so ad slots fill; for a landing page, follow the redirects to the final URL. Record every navigation, not only the first response. 5. Capture the evidence. Timestamp, exit reference and country, requested URL, redirect chain with status codes, final URL, HTTP status, a full-page screenshot, and the creative and placement identifiers if you can read them from the page. Save the HAR if you also want the bytes for cost per check. 6. Repeat before concluding. Ad rotation means one load is one sample. Load the page again from a second exit in the same market, and once from a control location, before calling a difference a targeting error or cloaking. ```javascript import { chromium } from "playwright"; const url = process.argv[2]; const proxy = { server: process.env.PROXY_SERVER, // http://YOUR_HOST:8080 username: process.env.PROXY_USER, // USER-country-de-city-berlin-session-ad01 password: process.env.PROXY_PASS, }; const browser = await chromium.launch({ proxy }); const context = await browser.newContext({ locale: "de-DE", timezoneId: "Europe/Berlin", recordHar: { path: "check.har" } }); const page = await context.newPage(); const exit = await (await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip")).json(); // preflight const navigations = []; page.on("framenavigated", (f) => { if (f === page.mainFrame()) navigations.push(f.url()); }); const response = await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: "networkidle" }); const redirects = []; for (let r = response?.request(); r; r = r.redirectedFrom()) redirects.unshift(r.url()); await page.screenshot({ path: "check.png", fullPage: true }); console.log(JSON.stringify({ checkedAt: new Date().toISOString(), exit, url, redirects, navigations, finalUrl: page.url(), status: response?.status() }, null, 2)); await context.close(); await browser.close(); ``` ### Checking Google, Meta and YouTube ads specifically Google Search ads. Search results are personalized and rate-limited, so use the Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool for your own account's ads and a residential exit for the organic and paid results a local user sees. Send one query per session, from a fresh context, and record the exit. Do not automate large query volumes against Google; that is the SEO monitoring workload and has its own rules. Google Display and YouTube ads. List the creatives in the Ads Transparency Center, then load the publisher pages or watch pages you care about through a residential exit to see which creative fills the slot and what the click-through serves. YouTube pre-roll checks are the most expensive per check because the page loads video; budget about 7.6 MB per load at the median. Meta ads. The Ad Library shows the creatives by country. Feed placements are personalized and require a logged-in account, so a proxy check is usually limited to the landing page: load the click-through URL from a residential exit in the target country and record the redirect chain, final URL, price and language. That is where geo-routing and cloaking show up. Instagram ads. Same library as Facebook (filter by platform); same limit on feed placements. Check landing pages through the proxy, not the feed. ### VPN vs residential proxy for this job A consumer VPN changes your apparent country, so it is tempting for a quick look. The catch is the exit: most VPN servers sit in datacenters, and ad stacks classify datacenter ranges as non-consumer traffic. Industry invalid-traffic guidelines treat known data-center traffic as general invalid traffic, so many ad calls are filtered before they reach a VPN exit, and a cloaked campaign serves it the clean page by design. You may see fewer ads, different ads, or a page that does not match what a household in that country gets. A residential proxy exits from a consumer ISP address in the target market, which is the audience the campaign was bought for. It also targets more precisely (city and ASN on Standard and Premium), runs in a script rather than a system-wide tunnel, and records the exit per check. Publishers can still read browser and behavior signals, so neither option makes a check identical to a real visitor; the point is to remove the network-type difference. The residential vs mobile comparison covers the remaining case: in-app and carrier-targeted ads, which need a mobile carrier IP that TrueProxies does not sell. ### Checklist for one market 1. List the advertiser's active ads for the country in the Ads Transparency Center and the Meta Ad Library; save the creative IDs or screenshots with the date. 2. Choose the exit: country for national campaigns, city for local ones, or ASN on a Standard or Premium traffic pack. 3. Preflight the exit and record its country. 4. From a fresh browser context with the market's locale and timezone, load three publisher pages where the campaign should appear and one where it should not. 5. Load each click-through URL, record the redirect chain, final URL, status, price and language, and take a full-page screenshot. 6. Repeat the loads from a second exit in the same market and from a control market. 7. File every observation in the evidence template with the exit reference, timestamp and limitation notes, and do not click any ad at any step. At 3.8 MB per full render and 0.8 MB per redirect check, the whole checklist for one market costs a few cents on a Standard traffic pack. The proxies for ad verification page has the plan choice and the evidence templates; the free trial on Unlimited Pro covers a country- or city-level first run. ### FAQ Can I see another country's ads without a proxy? Partly. The Ads Transparency Center and the Meta Ad Library list ads by region for free. They do not show placements, the landing page as served locally, or local prices; those need a request from inside the market. Is it legal to view ads through a proxy? Viewing public pages and ads through a proxy is generally lawful. Do not click ads you do not pay for, respect the terms of the sites you use, and follow TrueProxies' acceptable use policy. For regulated sectors, check local advertising rules with counsel. This is not legal advice. Why does the ad look different from abroad? Ad servers choose creatives by IP location, language, device and history, and campaigns are often targeted by city or ISP. An office connection in another country is outside the target audience. Load the page from a residential exit in the market, from a clean profile, and repeat before concluding anything. How do I check my own geo-targeting before launch? Load the placements from a residential exit in each targeted country and from one excluded country, record the exit and the creative each time, and compare with the campaign settings. That pre-launch QA is the cheapest ad check there is. --- ## Residential vs mobile proxies for ad verification URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/residential-vs-mobile-proxies-for-ad-verification/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-30 · Updated: 2026-09-30 Residential IPv4 proxies cover web display, search and landing-page checks, with city and ASN targeting where campaigns are bought that way. Mobile carrier proxies are for in-app inventory and carrier-targeted campaigns. Datacenter proxies are filtered as invalid traffic and shown clean pages, so they only suit redirect status checks. A VPN is usually a datacenter exit with less control. ### Which proxy type should you use for ad verification? Residential for web placements, mobile for in-app and carrier-targeted campaigns, datacenter for nothing more than redirect status checks. Ad stacks classify the network an IP belongs to before they decide what to serve, so the proxy type sets what a check can see. A residential IPv4 exit is a consumer ISP address and receives what a household in that city receives. A mobile proxy is a carrier address and receives carrier-targeted and in-app inventory. A datacenter IP is a hosting address, which invalid-traffic filters drop and cloaked campaigns serve a clean page. For the checks themselves, see the ad verification proxies page. TrueProxies sells residential IPv4 (Standard and Premium with city, region and ASN targeting, and Unlimited with country targeting) and Datacenter IPv6. It does not sell mobile carrier IPs, so this article is also honest about where to buy them. It also sells Static ISP, static IPv4 for long logged-in sessions rather than verification. The decision table comes first; the rest explains each column. - Residential IPv4: desktop and mobile-web display, search results, landing pages, cloaking re-checks, competitor monitoring. City and ASN precision on Standard and Premium. - Mobile carrier IP: in-app ads, carrier-targeted campaigns, app-install campaigns. Country and carrier precision, highest cost per check. - Datacenter: redirect status codes on targets where cloaking is not a risk. Filtered as general invalid traffic elsewhere. - Static ISP: long logged-in dashboards in a handful of countries. Not a verification exit. - VPN: a datacenter exit with a system-wide tunnel and no per-check exit record. Not for verification. ### Decision table by ad channel | Channel | What the ad stack keys on | Use | Why | TrueProxies | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Desktop display (publisher sites) | IP location and network type, browser signals | Residential | Slots fill for consumer-ISP visitors; datacenter IPs see fewer or different ads | Standard or Premium (city, ASN) or Unlimited (country, city) | | Mobile-web display and landing pages | IP location and network type, mobile user agent | Residential with a mobile user agent | Most mobile-web inventory is served to residential Wi-Fi as well as carriers | Traffic packs or Unlimited | | Search ads (Google, Bing) | IP location, language, device, account | Residential, one query per fresh session | Search results are personalized and rate-limited | City on Unlimited, Standard or Premium for local campaigns | | In-app ads (SDK inventory) | Carrier and device identifiers | Mobile carrier IP plus a real device or emulator | Inventory is bought by carrier and device; residential Wi-Fi is a different audience | Not offered; pair with a mobile specialist | | Carrier-targeted campaigns | Carrier ASN | Mobile carrier IP | The targeting is the carrier | Not offered | | Connected TV and OTT | Device and household IP | Residential (household IP) with the device | Household IP is the targeting key; the device is the hard part | Residential IPv4 for the network layer only | | Affiliate and tracking links | IP location | Residential, or datacenter where cloaking is not a risk | Geo-routing keys on country; cloaked offers key on network type | Traffic packs or Unlimited; see the affiliate guide | | Cloaking re-checks | Network type | Residential and datacenter, same city, compared | The difference between the two responses is the finding | Residential IPv4 for the consumer side | The pattern: the exit should be the network type the campaign was bought for. Where a campaign targets consumers on any connection, residential IPv4 is the match. Where it targets carriers or app inventory, only a carrier IP is. The affiliate link guide covers the last two rows in detail. ### Detection and invalid-traffic filtering Ad verification vendors and ad exchanges filter invalid traffic in two classes. General invalid traffic (GIVT) is identified with routine lists: known crawlers, declared bots and traffic from known data-center IP ranges. Sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT) needs behavioral analysis. The Media Rating Council's invalid-traffic guidelines define both, and the practical consequence for a verifier is simple: a check from a datacenter IP is filtered as GIVT at many ad calls, so the page you receive is not the page a consumer receives. The glossary entry on GIVT and SIVT has the definitions. Residential and mobile IPs are not classified as data-center traffic, which is why they exist as proxy products. They are not invisible. Ad stacks and fraud tools also score IP reputation, and a residential IP that many customers have reused for automation carries a history. Publishers read browser fingerprints, cookies and behavior. No proxy type makes a check identical to a person, and a provider who promises that is describing something else. What a residential or mobile exit does is remove the network-type difference, so that the remaining differences are ones you control: profile, locale, timing and repetition. Cloaking is the special case. A cloaked campaign serves reviewers, verification vendors, offices and datacenters a compliant page and consumer IPs the real payload, and the detection method is the comparison itself: load the same ad and landing page from a datacenter exit and a residential exit in the same city and record both. The ad cloaking glossary entry has the check; Google's Cloak of Visibility paper has the measurements. ### Geo precision Residential IPv4 goes furthest. On TrueProxies Standard and Premium traffic packs the proxy username selects a country, a city, an ISO 3166-2 region or an ASN, so a campaign bought for Munich or for Deutsche Telekom subscribers can be checked from that exit; Unlimited plans select the country and city. The accepted values are listed in the connection reference, and a wrong value is refused rather than silently ignored, so a typo never bills a check from the wrong place. Mobile carrier proxies select a country and a carrier; the carrier is the precision, and city selection is rarer because a carrier's addresses geolocate to the network, not the handset. Datacenter proxies select the country or city of the hosting facility, which for TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 is one of ten cities chosen at checkout. Static ISP proxies come in a few countries at fixed addresses. Neither residential product on TrueProxies offers ZIP or postal-code targeting, and the location pages state what has been verified for each market with the date. ### Cost per 1,000 checks Data per check was measured on 30 September 2026 from a direct connection: 0.8 MB at the median for a redirect-chain check that reads whole documents, 3.8 MB for a full render with a screenshot, 7.6 MB for a YouTube watch page with eight seconds of playback. On TrueProxies Standard traffic packs, 1 GB for $1.10 down to $0.60/GB on the 5,000 GB traffic pack, the residential column below follows from those medians. Mobile proxies are usually sold per port or per gigabyte at several times the residential per-GB rate; the column shows the shape, not a vendor's price, because those prices change and are not TrueProxies' to publish. | Check type | Residential IPv4 Standard, 1 GB traffic pack | Residential IPv4 Standard, 5,000 GB traffic pack | Mobile carrier (typical market shape) | Datacenter | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Redirect chain only | $0.88 | $0.48 | Several times the residential rate per GB, or a fixed price per port | Cheapest, but filtered or cloaked where it matters | | Full render with screenshot | $4.18 | $2.28 | As above | As above | | Video-heavy page | $8.36 | $4.56 | As above | As above | For recurring country-level monitoring at volume, Residential IPv4 Unlimited moves up to 4.5 GB an hour at 10 Mbps for $4.08 an hour or $7.35 a day, which caps at about 28,000 full renders a day at full utilization. The cost per check article has the method, the 90th percentiles and the break-even against traffic packs. ### Where TrueProxies fits, and where to buy mobile instead TrueProxies fits the residential rows: web display, search, landing pages, cloaking re-checks, competitor monitoring and affiliate audits, with city, region and ASN targeting on Standard and Premium traffic packs and country and city targeting on Unlimited. Every check comes with the evidence templates and field dictionary on the ad verification proxies page, so results from different markets stay comparable. Datacenter IPv6 is sold for other workloads; for ad checks it only suits redirect status codes on dual-stack targets where cloaking is not a risk, and it cannot load hosts without AAAA records at all. For in-app and carrier-targeted campaigns, buy a mobile carrier proxy from a mobile specialist and pair it with a real device or an emulator that carries the app's identifiers; several residential providers also resell carrier pools with per-carrier selection. Judge any of them on the same batch you would run here: successful responses, challenge rate, exit accuracy against the carrier you asked for, and cost per check. Keep the two evidence sets in the same template so a campaign report can show the web placement and the in-app placement side by side. ### FAQ Do I need mobile proxies for ad verification? Only for in-app inventory and carrier-targeted campaigns. Mobile-web placements and landing pages are served to residential connections too, and a residential IPv4 exit with a mobile user agent checks them. Are datacenter proxies good for ad verification? Rarely. Known data-center ranges are filtered as general invalid traffic and cloaked campaigns serve them the clean page. They are fine for checking redirect status codes on targets where neither applies. Can I use a residential IP VPN for ad verification? A VPN whose exits are residential removes the network-type problem but still tunnels the whole device, offers country-level choice at best, and records nothing per check. A residential proxy in a script selects the exit per check, targets a city or ASN, and logs the exit with the evidence. Rotating or sticky sessions for ad checks? Rotating for independent single-page checks, so each sample comes from a different exit. Sticky for a landing page followed by a checkout or sign-up step, so the flow stays on one exit; set the session lifetime to the length of the flow. Rotating proxies vs sticky sessions explains both. --- ## Ad verification tools vs proxies: DoubleVerify, IAS, GeoEdge and HUMAN URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/ad-verification-tools-vs-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-30 · Updated: 2026-09-30 Tag-based verification vendors measure every impression a campaign serves: viewability, invalid traffic, brand safety and creative security, pre-bid and post-bid. A proxy check reproduces one impression from one place. The two answer different questions, and campaigns that dispute a vendor alert, QA geo-targeting before launch, or audit affiliates need both. ### Do you need a verification vendor or a proxy? Both, for different questions. A tag-based verification vendor sits inside the ad call and measures every impression the campaign serves: was it viewable, was the traffic valid, was the page brand-safe, did the creative behave. That is measurement at scale and it is what DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science (IAS), GeoEdge and HUMAN sell, each with a different emphasis. A proxy check reproduces one impression from one network location at one moment, with the exit, the redirect chain, the final URL and a screenshot on record. That is evidence, and it is what the vendor's aggregate cannot give you when a client asks "what did a user in Munich actually see?" The proxies for ad verification page covers the proxy side; this article describes the vendors from their public documentation, explains pre-bid and post-bid measurement, and then lists the five situations where an independent proxy check adds something and the several where it does not. Vendor capabilities change; the descriptions below are general and dated 30 September 2026, and the vendors' own pages are the authority on what each product does today. - Vendors measure viewability, invalid traffic, brand safety and suitability, and creative security across every impression, pre-bid and post-bid. - Proxies reproduce a single impression from a chosen city and network type, with evidence attached. - Use proxies for pre-launch geo QA, re-verifying an alert, disputes, affiliate and redirect audits, and competitor monitoring. - Do not use proxies to measure viewability, invalid traffic rates or reach; that is the vendor's job and a proxy cannot do it. ### What tag-based vendors measure DoubleVerify publishes coverage of viewability, fraud and sophisticated invalid traffic, brand safety and suitability, and attention metrics, delivered through a measurement tag on the creative and through pre-bid segments in demand-side platforms. Integral Ad Science covers the same four areas (viewability, invalid traffic, brand safety and suitability, and context) with pre-bid and post-bid products and industry accreditations for its measurement. Both are the vendors a media plan usually names when it says "verified impressions". GeoEdge is focused on creative security and ad quality from the publisher and platform side: detecting malicious and disruptive ads (auto-redirects, malvertising, forced downloads, cloaked landing pages) and blocking them in real time. Its documentation also describes using proxy services to QA how campaigns render in different geographies, which is the overlap this article is about. HUMAN (formerly White Ops) specializes in bot mitigation and invalid-traffic detection across advertising, including pre-bid filtering of bid requests and post-bid measurement of fraud. All four work at the scale of the campaign: millions of impressions scored by rules and models, reported as rates and segments. None of them reproduces one impression for one visitor, and none of them is designed to show what a specific publisher page served to a specific city on a specific afternoon. The IAB's guidelines for the conduct of ad verification set the rules the vendors operate under, and are worth reading before you decide what your own checks should record. ### Pre-bid vs post-bid Pre-bid measurement happens before an impression is bought. The vendor scores the bid request (the page, the app, the user's network type, the likelihood of viewability or fraud) and the buyer's platform uses that score to bid or not. This is how known data-center traffic, suspicious apps and unsafe pages are avoided in the first place, and it is why a check from a datacenter IP sees a different auction than a household does: the pre-bid filters have already removed most of the demand for that impression. Post-bid measurement happens after the impression is served. A tag inside the creative reports whether the ad was viewable, on what page, to what kind of traffic, and whether the creative or its landing page misbehaved; the vendor may also block a creative from rendering. This is where alerts come from: "3% of impressions on publisher X were sophisticated invalid traffic", "creative Y triggered a redirect on mobile in Brazil". A proxy check is neither. It is an independent request that behaves like a visitor from a chosen place, made by you, with the response recorded. It can confirm or contradict what a post-bid alert says happened, and it can test geo-targeting before the pre-bid rules ever run, but it does not see the auction and it does not measure across impressions. ### Where an independent proxy check adds value 1. Pre-launch geo QA. Before a campaign spends, load the placements from a residential exit in each targeted country and one excluded country. A geo-targeting mistake costs nothing to catch at this stage and a great deal after. The country-by-country guide has the checklist. 2. Re-verifying a vendor alert. A post-bid alert says a creative redirected on mobile in Brazil. Load the creative's landing page from a residential exit in São Paulo with a mobile profile, record the redirect chain, and you have either a reproduction with a screenshot or a negative result with the exit and time noted. Either is more useful in the conversation with the network than the alert alone. 3. Evidence for disputes. Make-goods and refunds are argued over what was served. A screenshot with an exit reference, timestamp, URL and status, filed in a declared batch with its sample size and limits, is evidence a network or an affiliate program can check. The evidence kit is that file format. 4. Affiliate and redirect audits. Verification tags do not follow your affiliate links. Loading them from each market and recording every hop, the final storefront and whether tracking parameters survive is a proxy job, covered in how to test affiliate links by country. 5. Competitor monitoring. No vendor measures a competitor's campaign for you. The ad libraries list their creatives by region; a residential exit shows where those creatives run and what their landing pages serve locally. ### Where it does not Viewability, invalid-traffic rates, attention, reach and frequency are population measurements and a proxy check is a sample of one. Running a thousand proxy loads does not produce a viewability rate; it produces a thousand samples from your own automation, which is itself non-human traffic and should be kept small and rate-limited for that reason. Brand-safety scoring across a publisher's whole inventory is a vendor's crawl, not a spot check. And a proxy cannot see the auction, so it cannot tell you why an impression was or was not bought. There is also a limit inside the spot check. A residential exit removes the network-type difference; it does not reproduce a specific user's cookies, device, app identifiers or history, and publishers can still evaluate browser and behavior signals. A placement difference between two loads is evidence to repeat and investigate, not proof by itself. The ad verification proxies page states what a check can and cannot prove, and the evidence template has a field for the limitations of each batch so the caveat travels with the data. ### A workflow that uses both 1. Plan: the media plan names the verification vendor and the pre-bid segments; the QA plan names the markets, placements and landing pages to spot-check and the evidence fields to record. 2. Before launch: load each placement and landing page from a residential exit in each targeted market (city or ASN where the campaign is bought that way) and from one excluded market. File the batch. 3. In flight: the vendor tag measures every impression; a small scheduled sample of proxy checks per market catches rotation, redirect and localization problems the tag does not report. 4. On an alert: reproduce it from the market and profile the alert names, record the result either way, and attach it to the ticket with the network. 5. At reconciliation: the vendor report carries the rates; the evidence batches carry the screenshots and chains for anything disputed. 6. For affiliates and competitors: proxy checks only, on a schedule, with the same template. The proxy side of that workflow costs little. A full render with a screenshot measured 3.8 MB at the median on 30 September 2026, which is about $4 per 1,000 checks on the smallest Standard traffic pack and about $2 on the largest; the cost per check article has the table. City, region and ASN targeting on Standard and Premium traffic packs keeps the spot checks aligned with how the campaign was bought. ### FAQ Do proxies replace DoubleVerify or IAS? No. Vendors measure every impression for viewability, invalid traffic and brand safety. Proxies reproduce single impressions with evidence. Campaigns use both. Which ad verification companies exist? The commonly named tag-based vendors are DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, GeoEdge and HUMAN, alongside platform-side tools such as Google's Ads Transparency Center and Meta's Ad Library. This list is not exhaustive and it is not an endorsement; check each vendor's current documentation. Can a vendor see what a proxy check sees? Not the same thing. The vendor's tag reports from inside impressions that were bought and served; a proxy check is an independent request you control from a chosen place. Cloaked landing pages, affiliate redirects and localized prices are typically outside the tag's view. How many proxy checks are enough? Enough to notice a problem, not enough to become one. Ten checks per market per day at different hours, doubled where a difference appears, is a common starting point. Keep the sample small, never click ads, and rate-limit the automation; your checks are non-human traffic too. --- ## How to test affiliate links by country (redirect check) URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/test-affiliate-links-by-country/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-30 · Updated: 2026-09-30 Geo-routed affiliate links send visitors to a different storefront per country, and a broken route drops your tag, lands on the wrong store, or serves a cloaked offer. Open the link from a residential proxy exit in each market, record every hop with its status code, the final URL and whether the tracking parameters survived, and keep the result as evidence for the program. ### How do you test an affiliate link from another country? Request the link from an IP inside that country, follow every redirect by hand, and write down each hop's status code and host, the final URL, and whether your affiliate tag is still on it. Affiliate networks and stores route by the visitor's IP: an Amazon Associates link with a geo-routing layer sends a British visitor to amazon.co.uk and a German one to amazon.de, and a tracking link from a network goes through one or more of its own hosts before it lands. Any of those hops can drop your tag, land on a page without the product, or serve a different offer to a different country. The IP has to be a consumer one. Datacenter and VPN exits are classified as hosting traffic, and both geo-routers and cloaked offers can treat them differently from a household connection, which is what your commission depends on. This guide uses a residential proxy exit per market, gives you a script that records the chain, and lists what to keep as evidence when a program disputes a sale. - Geo-routers key on the visitor's country; cloaked offers key on network type. Test from a residential IP in each market you earn in. - Follow redirects manually so you see every hop, not just the destination. Read headers only and the check moves a few kilobytes. - Record: each hop's status and host, the final URL, tag presence, cookie set by the store, timestamp, exit reference and country. - Repeat from a second exit before reporting a broken route; rotations and A/B tests exist on the network side too. ### How geo-routed affiliate links work A geo-routed link has three layers. The first is the short link or tracking link you post, on the network's or your own domain. The second is a router that reads the visitor's IP, looks up the country, and picks a destination: a country-specific storefront, a localized landing page, or a fallback. The third is the store, which may add its own redirect to set a cookie, attach a session, or normalize the URL. Each layer answers with a 301, 302, 307 or 308 and a Location header, and the browser follows them in order. The affiliate tag rides on the URL as a query parameter (Amazon's tag=, a network's click ID, a UTM set) and sometimes as a cookie the store sets on arrival. A router that rebuilds the destination URL from a template can drop the parameter; a store that redirects to a canonical URL can strip the query; a country fallback can land on the home page of a store where you have no program at all. From the visitor's side the link "worked". From yours, the sale is untracked. ### What breaks - Wrong storefront. The router sends a German visitor to the US store, or to a country where you are not enrolled. The product page loads, the commission goes nowhere. - Stripped tags. A hop rebuilds the URL and your tag, click ID or UTM parameters disappear. Compare the query string on the first hop with the query string on the last. - Fallback to a home page. The product does not exist in the local catalogue, so the router lands on the store's home page. Still a redirect chain, still a 200 at the end, no product. - Cloaked offers. The link serves a compliant page to reviewer and datacenter IPs and a different offer, a forced redirect or a download to consumer IPs in the targeted country. Only a residential exit in that country sees it; the ad cloaking entry has the comparison method. - Expired or looping chains. A hop returns 404, 410 or 5xx, or two hops redirect to each other. Cap the chain at ten hops and record where it stopped. - Cookie not set. The final page loads with your tag in the URL, but the store's attribution cookie is missing because a hop switched domains or protocols. Record the Set-Cookie headers on the last hop. ### Running the check from several countries Use a plain HTTP client, not a browser, for the chain itself: follow redirects manually so nothing is hidden, and stop reading after the headers so each hop costs a few kilobytes. Route it through a residential exit in the market. On TrueProxies the country is written on the proxy username (USER-country-de), Unlimited, Standard and Premium also accept a city (USER-country-de-city-berlin), and Standard and Premium a region or ASN; the accepted values are in the connection reference. Preflight the exit first so the record shows which country the check actually came from. ```javascript // npm i undici import { ProxyAgent } from "undici"; const link = process.argv[2]; const agent = new ProxyAgent({ uri: process.env.PROXY_SERVER, // http://YOUR_HOST:8080 token: "Basic " + Buffer.from(`${process.env.PROXY_USER}:${process.env.PROXY_PASS}`).toString("base64"), }); const UA = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/153.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"; const exit = await (await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher: agent })).json(); // preflight const hops = []; let url = link; for (let i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { const res = await fetch(url, { dispatcher: agent, redirect: "manual", headers: { "user-agent": UA } }); const location = res.headers.get("location"); hops.push({ url, status: res.status, host: new URL(url).host, setCookie: res.headers.getSetCookie?.().length ?? 0 }); await res.body?.cancel(); // headers are enough for the chain if (res.status >= 300 && res.status < 400 && location) { url = new URL(location, url).toString(); continue; } break; } const first = new URL(link).searchParams; const last = new URL(url).searchParams; const survived = [...first.keys()].filter((key) => last.get(key) === first.get(key)); console.log(JSON.stringify({ checkedAt: new Date().toISOString(), exit, hops, finalUrl: url, survivedParameters: survived }, null, 2)); ``` Run it once per market, from a fresh exit each time (send no session on the username, so each connection rotates), and once more from a second exit before you report anything. If the destination needs JavaScript to redirect (a meta refresh or a script), open the final URL in a browser through the same proxy and record the navigations; the Playwright example in the evidence kit does that and takes the screenshot. ### Capturing evidence for affiliate disputes A program manager can act on a report that shows the chain, not on "the link is broken". For each market, keep: the exit reference and country from the preflight, the timestamp in UTC, every hop with its status code and host, the final URL, the parameters that survived and the ones that did not, the Set-Cookie count on the last hop, and the user agent. Add a screenshot of the final page when the problem is the destination rather than the chain. File it in the batch and observation fields of the evidence kit; the field dictionary already has redirect_chain_json, final_url and http_status. Keep the sample honest. Two or three checks per market per link, on different days, show a routing problem; a hundred show that you were hammering the network's redirector. Never click through to a purchase from the proxy, and never load the link from a datacenter exit and call the result a consumer's experience. The cost is small either way: a header-only chain check moves a few kilobytes, and even a full landing-page render measured 3.8 MB at the median on 30 September 2026, about $4 per 1,000 on the smallest Standard traffic pack. The cost per check article has the table, and the proxies for ad verification page has the plan choice. ### FAQ Is there a free affiliate link checker by country? Generic redirect checkers follow the chain from their own server, which is a datacenter IP in one country, so they show one route and often not the consumer one. The script above, through a residential exit, shows the route from the market you earn in; the first hour on TrueProxies Residential IPv4 Unlimited is free and covers country- and city-level checks. How do I test an Amazon affiliate link in another country? Request it through a residential exit in that country, follow the hops, and check that the final URL is on the expected Amazon storefront and still carries your tag parameter. A geo-routing service you added in front of the link is a hop like any other and is the usual place a tag goes missing. Why does my affiliate link go to the wrong store? A geo-router picked a storefront from the visitor's IP country, and either the mapping is wrong, the product is not in that catalogue, or the visitor's IP geolocated somewhere unexpected. The check records which of the three it was. Do I need a browser or is a plain HTTP client enough? A plain client is enough for HTTP redirects and costs almost nothing. Use a browser through the same proxy when a hop redirects with JavaScript or a meta refresh, or when you need a screenshot of the destination. --- ## What is an IPv6 proxy? How it works and when it fits URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/what-is-an-ipv6-proxy/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-29 An IPv6 proxy forwards your requests from an IPv6 address instead of an IPv4 one. Because IPv6 space is so large, a provider can give one customer a whole /48 and a fresh address on every connection. The limit is reach: an IPv6 proxy only works for sites that publish an IPv6 (AAAA) address. ### How does an IPv6 proxy work? An IPv6 proxy is a server that opens connections to websites for you from an IPv6 address. Your client connects to the proxy over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, the proxy connects to the target over IPv6, and the target sees the proxy's IPv6 address instead of yours. Your own machine does not need IPv6. On TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 you reach the connection host over IPv4, and only the exit address the website sees is IPv6. IPv6 is specified in RFC 8200; its addresses are 128 bits long, against 32 bits for IPv4. Teams use IPv6 proxies for work such as monitoring public pages, testing their own services over IPv6, QA from outside their network, and collecting public data from IPv6-reachable sites within each site's terms. ### How is an IPv6 proxy different from an IPv4 proxy? The difference is the address family. It changes three things: how many addresses a proxy can give you, how websites can group those addresses, and which websites you can reach at all. | Factor | IPv6 proxy | IPv4 proxy | | --- | --- | --- | | Address length | 128 bits | 32 bits | | Total address space | 2^128 addresses | About 4.3 billion (2^32) addresses | | Typical allocation | Whole prefixes, such as a /48 or a /64 | Single addresses or small ranges | | How websites can group traffic | By single address or by prefix, such as a /64 or /48 | By single address or by range | | Which websites it reaches | Only sites whose hostname publishes an AAAA (IPv6) record | Almost every public website | | TrueProxies products | Datacenter IPv6 and Residential IPv6 | Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Residential IPv4 Standard | | TrueProxies pricing (checked September 29, 2026) | Plan speed and term, from $3.99 a day at 25 Mbps | Unlimited: plan speed and term, from $4.08 an hour at 10 Mbps. Standard: traffic packs from $1.10 for 1 GB | Because the IPv6 space is so large, a provider can dedicate a whole prefix to one customer, which is rarely practical with IPv4. ### Does an IPv6 proxy change address per connection or per request? On TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 the address changes per connection, not per request. Each new connection gets a fresh address from your /48. A client that keeps a connection open, through HTTP keep-alive or a connection pool, keeps the same address for every request it sends on that connection. To keep one address across connections, add a session token to your username. Every connection that carries the same token leaves from the same address, and a lifetime option, in seconds, sets how long it holds. The Datacenter IPv6 connection reference lists the accepted options. ```bash # A new IPv6 address for each new connection curl -x http://YOUR_HOST:8080 -U "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_PASSWORD" https://api64.ipify.org # One address for every connection that carries session job42, for up to 10 minutes curl -x http://YOUR_HOST:8080 -U "YOUR_USERNAME-session-job42-lifetime-600:YOUR_PASSWORD" https://api64.ipify.org ``` Spreading independent requests across addresses does not change what a website allows. Keep request rates within the limits the target sets, whichever address a request leaves from. ### Why does a /48 matter for an IPv6 proxy? A /48 is a block of 2^80 addresses, which is 65,536 separate /64 networks. It is the block size that RIPE-690, RIPE's guidance for network operators, recommends for a business customer: the network of one organization. Two things follow. A private /48 means no other customer exits from your addresses, so a site's view of that prefix reflects only your traffic. And websites can act on a whole prefix: MediaWiki's administrator guidance recommends blocking IPv6 by /64 rather than by single address, and Cloudflare IP Access rules let a site owner block or challenge a /64 or a /48 in one rule. A limit applied to your /48 applies to every address in it. How a site treats an IPv6 address depends on the size of the address block it belongs to, not only the single address. ### Which websites work with an IPv6 proxy? An IPv6 proxy reaches a website only if the site's hostname publishes an AAAA record and its server answers on that address. TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 has no IPv4 fallback, because translating to IPv4 would put a shared IPv4 address in place of your own IPv6 space. Many sites still have no IPv6. Common Crawl's March 2026 analysis found 36,864 of the top 100,000 web hosts (36.9%) fully reachable over IPv6, and 61.9% with no AAAA record at all. Page resources matter as well: a study presented at IMC 2025 found only 12.6% of the top 100,000 websites fully IPv6-ready once every script, image and font is counted. What counts depends on your workload. A client that fetches one HTML page or one JSON API needs only that hostname to have IPv6. A headless browser that renders the page needs every host the page loads. Check before you buy with the TrueProxies IPv6 test, or follow our guide on how to check if a website supports IPv6. ### What happens when a site has no IPv6 address? The request fails quickly with a clear answer instead of hanging. Over HTTP and HTTPS, TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 returns 502 Bad Gateway with this sentence in the response body and in the X-Proxy-Reason header: “Datacenter IPv6 proxies reach IPv6 destinations only. This destination has no IPv6 address.” Over SOCKS5 the connection fails with a network-unreachable reply, because SOCKS5 has no field for a reason. With SOCKS5, let the proxy resolve hostnames: use socks5h://, or --socks5-hostname in curl. A client that resolves names itself may send the site's IPv4 address, which an IPv6 exit cannot reach even when the site also publishes IPv6. ### What does TrueProxies Datacenter IPv6 include? These facts come from the live catalog on September 29, 2026. The Datacenter IPv6 page shows current prices. | Feature | Datacenter IPv6 | | --- | --- | | Addresses | A private /48 for each service | | Location | One city per plan, chosen at checkout | | Default behavior | A new IPv6 address for each new connection | | Sticky sessions | Add a session token; set how long it holds with a lifetime in seconds | | Plan speeds | 25, 70, 175 or 400 Mbps | | Plan terms | Daily, 7-day or monthly | | Starting price | $3.99 a day at 25 Mbps, with no per-GB charge | | Protocols | HTTP (port 8080), HTTPS (port 8443) and SOCKS5 (port 1080) | | Authentication | Username and password, trusted IP, or both | | Reaches | IPv6 destinations only | | Renewal | Raises an invoice; charged to the saved card only when Automatic renewal is on | | Free trial | Not available for Datacenter IPv6 | ### When should you choose an IPv4 proxy instead? - Your target has no AAAA record, or a page you render loads IPv4-only resources that you need. - You need residential origin: addresses that consumer internet providers assign to homes, not hosting addresses. Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Residential IPv4 Standard provide that. - You need to choose a country or city per request (Residential IPv4 Unlimited, Standard or Premium), or a region or ASN per request (Standard or Premium only). Datacenter IPv6 is one city per plan. - You want to test before paying. The free trial covers Unlimited Pro only, for 1 hour at 10 Mbps. Datacenter IPv6 has no trial. If every target passes an IPv6 check and hosted addresses are acceptable for the work, Datacenter IPv6 costs less per Mbps on our price list: $3.99 a day at 25 Mbps, against $12.30 a day for Residential IPv4 Unlimited at 25 Mbps (checked September 29, 2026). If not, start with Residential IPv4. The IPv6 proxies overview compares the IPv6 options side by side. --- ## How to check if a website supports IPv6 URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/how-to-check-if-a-website-supports-ipv6/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-29 A website supports IPv6 when its hostname publishes an AAAA record and its server answers on that address. Look up the record with dig or nslookup, confirm a real connection with curl -6, then test every host the page loads, because one IPv4-only script, font or API can break the page over IPv6. ### What does IPv6 support mean for a website? IPv6 support is not a yes-or-no answer. A site can be unreachable over IPv6, reachable for its main page only, or fully usable because every host it depends on has IPv6. | Level | What it means | What an IPv6-only client sees | | --- | --- | --- | | No IPv6 | The hostname publishes no AAAA record | The connection cannot be opened at all | | Partial | The main hostname has an AAAA record, but a script, stylesheet, font, image or API host does not | The HTML loads; some resources fail or never arrive | | Full | The main hostname and every host the page loads publish AAAA records | The page can load completely over IPv6 | Measurements show why the middle level matters. Common Crawl's March 2026 analysis found 36.9% of the top 100,000 web hosts fully reachable over IPv6 and 61.9% with no AAAA record. Research presented at IMC 2025 found only 12.6% of the top 100,000 websites fully IPv6-ready once every subresource is counted. ### How do you look up a website's AAAA record? An AAAA record maps a hostname to an IPv6 address, as defined in RFC 3596. Query it with dig on macOS and Linux, nslookup on almost any system, or Resolve-DnsName in Windows PowerShell. ```bash # macOS and Linux dig AAAA example.com +short dig A example.com +short # Almost any system nslookup -type=AAAA example.com # Windows PowerShell Resolve-DnsName example.com -Type AAAA ``` An IPv6 address in the output (it looks like 2001:db8::1) means the hostname publishes IPv6. Empty output from dig AAAA, or no AAAA answer from nslookup, means it does not. If the answer starts with a CNAME, the resolver follows it, and the address at the end of the chain is the one that counts. Check the exact hostname your tool requests. example.com, www.example.com and api.example.com are separate DNS names, and their answers can differ. ### How do you confirm a real IPv6 connection with curl? A record proves that an address is published, not that the server answers on it. curl -6 makes curl connect over IPv6 only (see the curl manual). ```bash # Force IPv6 and print the HTTP status and the address curl connected to curl -6 -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{remote_ip}\n' https://example.com/ ``` A status code followed by an IPv6 address means the site answered over IPv6. This test needs IPv6 on the machine that runs it. If your network has none, curl fails whatever the site supports, so use one of the checks below instead. If you have a Datacenter IPv6 service, the proxy gives the same answer from an IPv6 exit, and your own machine does not need IPv6: ```bash curl -sS -o /dev/null -w 'proxy %{http_connect}, site %{http_code}\n' \ -x http://YOUR_HOST:8080 -U "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_PASSWORD" \ https://example.com/ ``` proxy 200 followed by a site status means the site answered over IPv6. An IPv4-only site gets proxy 502, and the X-Proxy-Reason header says why: “Datacenter IPv6 proxies reach IPv6 destinations only. This destination has no IPv6 address.” Add -v to see the header. ### How do you check every resource a page loads? Use the TrueProxies IPv6 test. It loads the page once, collects every host the HTML asks a browser to fetch (scripts, stylesheets, images, iframes, fonts, preconnect hints and CSS url() references), and resolves AAAA and A records for each one over DNS-over-HTTPS. It reports Pass, Partial, Fail or Inconclusive and marks each host that is IPv4 only. Know its limits. It reads the HTML as served, so hosts that JavaScript adds later are not counted. It checks up to 60 unique hosts per page. A site that returns a challenge page is reported as Inconclusive rather than Pass. On a network that has IPv6, you can also check by hand: open your browser's developer tools, reload the page on the Network tab and show the Remote Address column. IPv6 addresses appear in square brackets. A host shown with an IPv4 address may still have IPv6, so confirm it with dig AAAA. ### What does partial IPv6 support mean for your workload? Partial support is common because third-party hosts, such as CDNs, analytics, font services and APIs, each run their own DNS. Whether it matters depends on what your client fetches. | Workload | What must have IPv6 | How to check | | --- | --- | --- | | HTTP client fetching HTML (curl, requests, Scrapy) | The page's hostname only | dig AAAA, then curl -6 or a request through Datacenter IPv6 | | API or JSON endpoint | The API hostname, which can differ from the website's | dig AAAA on the API hostname | | Headless browser that renders pages | Every host the page loads, including hosts added by JavaScript | The IPv6 test, then a rendered test run | | Image or file downloads | The CDN or storage hostname in each file URL | dig AAAA on each file hostname | ### What should you do if a website is IPv4-only? - Use IPv4 for that site. Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Residential IPv4 Standard reach IPv4 sites. - Split traffic by target: send hosts that pass through Datacenter IPv6 and IPv4-only hosts through Residential IPv4, and build the list with the checks above. - For a partial site you render in a browser, find out whether the IPv4-only hosts carry anything you need. A missing analytics beacon rarely matters; a missing script that builds the page does. - Check again later. Sites add IPv6 over time, and a result is only true for the day you checked. Don't buy IPv6 capacity for a site whose main hostname has no AAAA record. No amount of IPv6 changes that. ### Checklist: is this site ready for an IPv6 proxy? 1. List every hostname your client will request: the page, its API, and any file or image hosts. 2. Run dig AAAA on each one. An empty result is an IPv4-only host. 3. Confirm one real IPv6 response with curl -6, or through a Datacenter IPv6 service. 4. If you render pages, run the IPv6 test and review every host marked IPv4 only. 5. Decide per target: Datacenter IPv6 for hosts that pass, Residential IPv4 for the rest. For the product side, read what an IPv6 proxy is. Datacenter IPv6 lists current plans. --- ## Proxy errors explained: 407, 403, 429, 502, timeouts and slow connections URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/proxy-errors-explained/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-11-06 A 407 comes from the proxy: it refused the connection, for example over the password, username or targeting options. A 403 or 429 that arrives after the tunnel opens comes from the website. A 502 or 503 from the proxy means it could not open the connection. On TrueProxies, a 407 usually names its reason in the X-Proxy-Reason header. ### How do you tell whether an error came from the proxy or the website? Look at where the status code appears. For an HTTPS site, your client first asks the proxy to open a tunnel with an HTTP CONNECT request. The proxy answers that request itself: 200 if it opened the tunnel, or an error such as 407, 403, 502 or 503 if it did not. Everything after a 200 is the website talking through the tunnel. curl -v prints both answers, so it is the quickest way to see which side refused: ```bash curl -v -x http://YOUR_HOST:8080 -U "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_PASSWORD" https://example.com/ -o /dev/null ``` ```text > CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1 < HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required < X-Proxy-Reason: Wrong proxy password. Check the credentials on your service page. * CONNECT tunnel failed, response 407 ``` ```text > CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1 < HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established ... > GET / HTTP/2 < HTTP/2 429 < retry-after: 30 ``` A plain http:// site works differently: the proxy forwards the request itself, so you read one response. The TrueProxies gateway puts its own reasons in the X-Proxy-Reason header in both cases. For messages shown inside profile tools, use the anti-detect browser proxy errors guide to identify the next check. One page per error message, with the curl checks that find its cause: 407 Proxy Authentication Required, 403 Forbidden, 429 Too Many Requests, 502 Bad Gateway, ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED, ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED, ECONNRESET and curl error 56. ### Proxy error codes at a glance | Symptom | Comes from | Likely cause | Fix | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 407 with “Wrong proxy password…” | Proxy | The password does not match the service | Copy the proxy password from the Username and password tab; percent-encode special characters in URL-form credentials | | 407 with “Username not recognised…” | Proxy | A typo in the username, or the service has ended | Copy the username from your service page and check that the service is active | | 407 with “The targeting options in your username are not valid for this service…” | Proxy | A misspelled or repeated option, such as country-usa | Use two-letter country codes and each option once | | 407 with “Your username uses an option this service does not support…” | Proxy | An option your product does not offer, such as ASN on Unlimited Bandwidth | Use only the options your product supports | | 407 with “No credentials sent, and this address is not on the service's trusted IP list.” | Proxy | No username and password, from an address that is not a trusted IP | Send credentials, or add your public IP as a trusted IP | | 407 naming a limit or the service's state | Proxy | A suspended or expired service, used traffic, or a closed trial | Do what the sentence says: renew, add traffic or contact support | | 407: Too many wrong usernames or passwords from this address | Proxy | Repeated failed logins from your address in the last minute; correct logins still connect | Find the client that still sends an old login and fix its username and proxy password | | 403 after the tunnel opens | Website | The site refused this request under its own rules | Check the site's terms and robots.txt, slow down, and compare with a request from your own connection | | 403 as the answer to CONNECT | Proxy | The destination is on the network's blocked list | Use a different destination, or contact support if you think it is wrong | | 429 Too Many Requests | Website | More requests than the site allows in a period | Wait for the Retry-After time, then lower request rate and concurrency | | 502 with “Datacenter IPv6 proxies reach IPv6 destinations only…” | Proxy | A Datacenter IPv6 service asked for a site with no IPv6 address | Use Residential IPv4 for that site, and check other targets with the IPv6 test | | 502 or 503 as the answer to CONNECT, no reason | Proxy | The proxy could not open a connection: the site refused or did not answer, no exit was free for your targeting, or the port is closed | Retry, check the host and port, and widen targeting if you set one | | 502, 503 or 504 after the tunnel opens | Website or its CDN | The site's own servers failed | Retry later with backoff; the proxy is working | | Timeout | Either side | A slow or silent site, an exit that went away, DNS, or a client timeout set too short | Retry once, raise the client timeout, and test the route with Proxy Checker | | Slow transfers | Either side | The plan speed ceiling, a slow site, distance to the exit, or how many connections you use | Compare measured download speed with plan speed, and test another site | | SOCKS5 authentication failure | Proxy | SOCKS5 has no field for a reason | Send the same username once over HTTP with curl -v and read X-Proxy-Reason | ### What does a 407 from TrueProxies mean? 407 Proxy Authentication Required is the proxy's own refusal (RFC 9110, section 15.5.8). A bare 407 reads as “wrong password” whatever the cause, so the TrueProxies gateway adds a sentence that says which check failed. It sends the sentence in the response body and in the X-Proxy-Reason header. The header matters because browsers and most HTTPS libraries never show you the body of a failed CONNECT. Log the header, or run the request once with curl -v. These are the sentences the gateway sends: - “Wrong proxy password. Check the credentials on your service page.” - “Username not recognised. Check the username on your service page.” - “Username not recognised, or the service it belongs to has ended. Check your service page.” - “The targeting options in your username are not valid for this service. Check spelling, and do not repeat an option.” - “No credentials sent, and this address is not on the service's trusted IP list.” - “This service is at its maximum number of open connections.” and “Too many new connections per second for this service's limit.” - “This service is suspended. Contact support to resolve it.”, “This service has reached its expiry date. Renew it to continue.” and “This service has used its traffic allowance. Add traffic to continue.” - “Your trial has closed. Buy a paid plan to continue.” - “The proxy is at capacity right now. Try again in a moment.” A targeting error is answered before any exit is chosen, so it uses no traffic. For example, country-usa is refused because country codes have two letters (country-us), and -country-us-country-gb is refused because an option appears twice. The How to connect guide lists every option each product accepts. Repeated failed logins from one address bring a 407 that says so: too many wrong usernames or passwords from this address in the last minute. Correct logins from that address still connect, so look for the client that still sends an old login and fix it. Two setup details also produce 407s. A password with special characters must be percent-encoded when it is written inside a proxy URL (@ becomes %40). And a trusted IP only admits connections from the public address you added; see trusted IPs. ### Why do 403 and 429 come from the website, not the proxy? Once the tunnel is open, the status codes you see are the website's. A 403 Forbidden means the site understood the request and refused it (RFC 9110). A 429 Too Many Requests means you sent more requests than the site allows in a period, and the site may add a Retry-After header that says when to try again (RFC 6585). A different exit address does not make a refused request permitted. Treat both codes as the site's instructions: honor Retry-After, lower concurrency, space out requests, and check the site's terms and robots.txt. Under the TrueProxies acceptable use policy, you are responsible for following the terms of every site you reach through the service. One exception: a 403 returned as the answer to CONNECT, before any TLS, comes from the proxy. On TrueProxies that means the destination is on the network's blocked list. ### What do 502, 503 and 504 mean through a proxy? These are gateway errors: something between you and the site could not get a usable answer (RFC 9110). Where the code appears tells you which side failed. - Answer to CONNECT, with a reason. On TrueProxies, a 502 whose X-Proxy-Reason reads “Datacenter IPv6 proxies reach IPv6 destinations only. This destination has no IPv6 address.” means the site has no IPv6 address. Use Residential IPv4 for it, and check your other targets for IPv6. - Answer to CONNECT, no reason. The gateway could not open a connection to that host and port. The site may have refused or not answered, a country you targeted may have no exit free at that moment, or the port may be closed. Outgoing mail ports (25, 465, 587 and 2525) are closed on every service, the free trial included. - After the tunnel opened. The website or its CDN returned the error. The proxy did its job; retry later with backoff. A 504 Gateway Timeout comes from a gateway that waited too long for the server behind it. After the tunnel opens, that gateway belongs to the website. ### Why does a proxy connection time out? A timeout means no answer arrived before your client gave up. Find the stage first: connecting to the proxy, the proxy opening the tunnel, the TLS handshake with the site, or waiting for the site's first byte. - Connecting to the proxy. Check the connection host and port on your service page, and that your network allows outgoing connections to that port. - Opening the tunnel. The site is slow to accept connections, or a residential exit went away during setup. Retry once. If one site times out while others work, the site is the cause. - TLS or first byte. The site is slow to respond. Raise your client's read timeout for slow pages instead of retrying at once. - DNS. With SOCKS5, let the proxy resolve hostnames (socks5h://) so a local resolver problem does not look like a proxy timeout. The Proxy Checker separates a proxy problem from a site problem: it reports whether the proxy route works and, separately, whether a selected target answered, each within eight seconds. Its error code guide explains each stage. On your service page, Usage history lists recorded errors by type, such as Connection setup timeout, Read timeout and DNS error. ### Why is my proxy slow? A slow proxy is usually held back by one of four things: the plan speed, the website, the distance to the exit, or how your client uses connections. - Plan speed. Residential IPv4 Unlimited plans run from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, and Datacenter IPv6 plans from 25 to 400 Mbps. Plan speed is the ceiling for the service at its peak, not what each connection or each site will deliver. Residential IPv4 Standard is charged by traffic, not by plan speed. - The website. A site can limit how fast it serves one client. If one site is slow and others are not, the site is the limit. - Distance and exit type. Setup takes longer as the distance between you, the exit and the site grows. Residential exits run on household connections, so their speed varies from exit to exit. - Connections. A single connection may not fill a fast plan. Measure before you change plans. Compare Download speed in Live traffic on your service page with your plan speed: if you are well below it, a faster plan will not help. The latency vs speed guide explains why a fast first response and a fast download are different measurements, and sizing your plan speed shows how to measure a real batch. ### How do you troubleshoot a SOCKS5 proxy error? SOCKS5 cannot tell you why it refused. Its username and password step returns one status byte, success or failure, with no text (RFC 1929), and a refused destination comes back as a short reply code such as network unreachable (RFC 1928). To see the reason, send the same username once over HTTP. The connection host serves HTTP on port 8080 and SOCKS5 on port 1080 with the same credentials, so the HTTP answer names the problem: ```bash # Same username and password as your SOCKS5 client, sent over HTTP curl -v -x http://YOUR_HOST:8080 -U "YOUR_USERNAME-country-us:YOUR_PASSWORD" https://example.com/ -o /dev/null ``` Read the X-Proxy-Reason line, fix the username, then switch back to SOCKS5. With SOCKS5, prefer socks5h:// (or --socks5-hostname in curl) so hostnames are resolved at the proxy. ### What should you send to support? If these steps do not explain an error, contact support with: - The time of the error in UTC, and the product: Residential IPv4 Unlimited, Residential IPv4 Standard or Datacenter IPv6 - The protocol and port: HTTP 8080, HTTPS 8443 or SOCKS5 1080 - The target hostname and the status code you saw - The exact X-Proxy-Reason text, if there was one - Your username. Never send your proxy password. --- ## How to evaluate residential proxy advice on Reddit URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/best-residential-proxies-reddit/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-21 · Updated: 2026-11-06 Reddit can surface useful workload reports, but provider claims and prices still need official sources and matched testing. Use this framework to evaluate recommendations. ### Reddit advice is a starting point, not a provider ranking Community posts can reveal target-specific failures, billing surprises, and setup friction that a product page will not. They cannot establish a universal winner. Verify each factual claim on an official provider page, note the date, and run matched tests on the destinations and geographies you actually need. ### How to read community recommendations Start by checking whether the author names a target, country, protocol, concurrency level, and test date. A useful report explains the workload and result; an unsupported provider name or affiliate link is not evidence. Separate firsthand observations from copied pool sizes, prices, or success-rate claims. Volatile commercial facts belong to the provider's current product and pricing pages, while community reports are most valuable for describing a reproducible target experience. Record the post date and look for follow-up results. Proxy pools and target defenses change, so an old success report may no longer reproduce. ### Provider facts to verify before comparing Bright Data advertised 400M+ monthly rotating residential IPs in 195 countries on its official pages when checked November 6, 2026. The same page showed an $8 per GB pay-as-you-go list price and a temporary $4 promotion, which must not be treated as a permanent rate. Oxylabs advertised $6 per GB on a $15/month Starter plan, 175M+ residential IPs, and 195 countries on its official pages when checked November 6, 2026. Those advertised network totals still need to be tested for the exact geography and target. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) advertised residential proxies from $2 per GB, 115M+ IPs in 195+ locations, and a 3-day 100 MB trial when checked November 6, 2026. Its visible smallest regular package carried a higher per-GB rate, so confirm the tier that is actually available at checkout. For any additional provider mentioned in a thread, open its official residential product and pricing pages before repeating pool, expiry, trial, or price claims. If a claim has no current first-party source, omit it from the shortlist until the provider confirms it. Treat anonymous free proxies and providers that do not disclose sourcing, ownership, or terms as high risk. Low price alone does not prove unethical sourcing, and a large advertised pool does not prove quality; evaluate the evidence rather than inferring either conclusion. ### What Reddit users care about most A defensible comparison uses the same operational criteria for every provider. Usable responses on target sites matter more than a global pool headline. Run the same URLs, geography, request volume, and retry policy, then count successful responses and distinct usable exits. Comparable pricing units prevent false savings claims. Separate per-GB, per-proxy, request-based, and fixed-duration throughput prices, then estimate total workload cost under each model. Sourcing and acceptable-use controls should be documented by the provider. Look for an explicit consent model and enforceable terms rather than relying on a forum label such as “ethical.” Support quality is best tested with a real pre-sales or trial question. Published availability is not the same as a workload-specific response time or contractual SLA. ### What TrueProxies publishes TrueProxies publishes two Residential IPv4 billing models and product-specific coverage and session behavior. Compare those facts against the same criteria used for every other provider. Pricing models. Residential IPv4 Standard starts at $1.10 for a 1 GB traffic pack, down to $0.60/GB on larger traffic packs. Residential IPv4 Unlimited uses fixed-duration throughput tiers starting from $4.08/hour for 10 Mbps. Published network. Residential IPv4 Standard advertises 50M+ addresses across 150+ countries with country, city, region, and ASN selection. Unlimited uses a separate 16M+ worldwide pool with country and city targeting. Confirm the current customer selector before testing. Session behavior. Residential IPv4 supports sticky and rotating sessions, while Datacenter IPv6 rotates per connection with optional sticky sessions; do not generalize one product's session model to all plans. Evaluation. The free trial covers Unlimited Pro: 1 hour at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap. No card is needed, and it is one per customer. Traffic packs (Standard, Premium and Lite) and Datacenter IPv6 have no trial. The smaller advertised pool does not prove worse performance, just as a larger pool does not prove better performance. Compare usable exits, target results, latency, and total cost on a matched workload. ### Official facts checked November 6, 2026 | Provider | Published residential price | Advertised pool | Coverage | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bright Data | $8/GB list; $4 temporary promotion shown | 400M+ monthly rotating | 195 countries | Official pricing page | | Oxylabs | $6/GB on $15/month Starter | 175M+ | 195 countries | Official pricing page | | Decodo | Advertised from $2/GB | 115M+ | 195+ locations | Official pricing page | | TrueProxies | From $1.10 for 1 GB | 50M+ | 150+ countries | Canonical product page | ### How to choose based on your use case For protected or high-value targets, run a pilot against the exact destinations. No provider-wide pool or testimonial predicts how a specific target will respond. For general scraping and monitoring, compare successful responses, bytes transferred, and retry overhead. Lower published unit pricing does not guarantee lower total cost if performance differs. For bandwidth-heavy continuous workloads, estimate both per-GB cost and the throughput required from a fixed-duration unlimited plan. The billing units differ, so model the workload rather than comparing one price. For testing and short-term projects, use available trials or the smallest applicable tier and keep the target set identical. Avoid extrapolating from a few connectivity checks. ### Frequently asked questions Can Reddit identify the best residential proxy?No universal ranking is reliable. Community reports are useful when they provide a target, geography, date, and reproducible result; provider facts still need current official sources. Are cheap residential proxies safe to use?Price alone cannot establish safety or sourcing. Review the provider's consent disclosures, terms, ownership, security controls, and acceptable-use process. How should I compare residential proxy prices?Use the current official tier and keep per-GB, per-proxy, request-based, and fixed-duration prices separate. Include retry traffic and minimum commitments in total cost. Do I need residential or datacenter proxies?Choose based on the destination's address-family support, origin sensitivity, location requirement, and tested results. Read our residential vs. datacenter guide for a detailed comparison. How should I use a free trial?Test representative destinations, required countries, concurrency, and enough traffic to observe rotation and retries. Record the date and compare against the same workload on other providers. --- ## Rotating proxies vs sticky sessions: how to choose URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/sticky-vs-rotating-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-21 · Updated: 2026-10-01 A rotating proxy picks an exit IP from its pool for each new connection or request; a sticky session reuses one exit IP for every connection that carries the same session ID, while that IP stays available. Use rotation for independent requests and a sticky session when a permitted login, cart or multi-page flow needs one address. ### Rotating proxies vs sticky sessions: how to choose Rotating proxies request an available exit change under the provider's rotation model, while sticky sessions request reuse of one assigned exit while it remains available. TrueProxies Residential IPv4 supports normal rotation, explicit rotation, and session identifiers through documented username forms; neither mode guarantees a previously unused or permanently assigned address. Setting up one session per browser profile? See the anti-detect browser setup guides for tested formats, profile settings and best-effort session results. ### What are sticky proxies? A sticky proxy attempts to reuse one assigned exit for requests carrying the same session identifier. Continuity lasts only while that exit remains available, so test the actual workflow instead of assuming a universal duration. Sticky sessions are worth testing when a permitted login, form, cart, or multi-page flow needs short-term IP continuity. A consistent exit can reduce unplanned location changes, but it does not prevent security checks or guarantee acceptance. With TrueProxies, sticky sessions are available on both Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Residential IPv4 Standard plans. Reuse the same session ID to request continuity and monitor whether the assigned exit changes. ### What are rotating proxies? A rotating proxy changes or requests a change to the outbound exit according to a provider's request, connection, timed, or explicit rotation model. Rotation can increase exit diversity, but it does not guarantee a previously unused address or make separate requests look like different people. Rotation can fit authorized collection where requests are independent. Continue to respect target terms and rate limits, cap concurrency and retries, and measure repeated exits because distribution alone does not prevent blocks or challenges. On TrueProxies Residential IPv4, rotation is per connection, not per request. HTTP clients reuse connections by default (persistent connections in RFC 9112), and libraries such as Python requests keep a pool of them: “if you're making several requests to the same host, the underlying TCP connection will be reused” (requests documentation). Every request on one kept-alive connection leaves from the same exit; open a new connection to get a new one. For TrueProxies Residential IPv4, use the base username for normal rotation or add -rotate to select explicit rotation. Do not add a session identifier when the request should rotate. Either form selects from available exits and can return an address observed earlier. ### How proxy rotation models differ Providers use the word rotation for several behaviors. Treat these as general models, then check the exact controls documented for the service you use. A timed or per-connection model offered elsewhere is not automatically a TrueProxies username selector. | Model | What it means | Important limit | | --- | --- | --- | | Per-request rotation | The provider may select an exit for each independent request | A later request can still repeat an exit | | Per-connection rotation | The exit may change when the client opens a new proxy connection | Connection pooling can affect observed changes | | Timed provider rotation | The provider may replace an exit after an interval | No customer-controlled timed selector is published; unavailable exits can still change and no interval is promised | | Sticky session | Reusing one session identifier requests the assigned exit while available | It is not a permanent or fixed-duration static allocation | The six public Residential IPv4 username forms are base_username, base_username-country-XX, base_username-rotate, base_username-rotate-country-XX, base_username-session-ID, and base_username-session-ID-country-XX. In concrete credentials, use a two-letter country code such as country-us after the rotation or session component. Session IDs must contain 1–32 letters or numbers. ### Configure rotating and sticky Residential IPv4 requests Use the connection host and HTTP port shown on your service with username and password authentication, or add a trusted IP in your dashboard to connect without a password. On the plain HTTP port the client-to-proxy edge is unencrypted, so proxy credentials are not protected by TLS on that hop; use the HTTPS port (8443) where your client supports it, a trusted network, or a trusted IP. HTTPS targets use CONNECT and encrypt target traffic after the tunnel is established. The commands below demonstrate credential syntax only: example.com does not reveal exit identity, rotation, continuity, or country. ```bash curl --proxy "http://YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT" \ --proxy-user "base_username-rotate:YOUR_PASSWORD" \ "https://example.com/" ``` ```bash curl --proxy "http://YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT" \ --proxy-user "base_username-session-DEMO123:YOUR_PASSWORD" \ "https://example.com/" ``` ```bash curl --proxy "http://YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT" \ --proxy-user "base_username-session-DEMO123-country-us:YOUR_PASSWORD" \ "https://example.com/" ``` Residential IPv4 also exposes SOCKS5 at the YOUR_HOST:YOUR_SOCKS_PORT endpoint shown in the dashboard. The socks5:// versus socks5h:// DNS distinction applies to SOCKS-capable clients; HTTP proxy clients follow their request or CONNECT behavior instead. Confirm the option your client supports. Residential IPv4 cannot reach IPv6-only destination hosts. See the Residential IPv4 connection reference for the complete username grammar. Use Proxy Checker or another authorized exit-observation endpoint to compare repeated requests; the sample commands themselves do not verify rotation, stickiness, or geography. Proxy Checker is not a throughput test and does not prove target acceptance. ### What are the key differences between sticky and rotating proxies? | Feature | Sticky proxies | Rotating proxies | | --- | --- | --- | | IP behavior | Requests the assigned exit while available | Requests an available exit change; repeats remain possible | | When the exit changes | When the assigned exit stops being available | On each new connection; a reused connection keeps its exit | | Best for | Permitted logins, carts and multi-page forms | Independent requests: public data collection, monitoring, SERP checks | | Target acceptance | Measure representative session flows | Measure representative independent requests | | Client state | Does not maintain login state by itself | Does not reset cookies or application state | | Cold response time | Measure with reuse enabled | Measure with rotation enabled | ### When should you use sticky proxies? Managing social media accounts your team is authorized to run. Platforms evaluate login IP changes alongside browser, device, account, and behavior signals. A sticky session reduces unplanned IP changes during a working session while the assigned exit remains available; it does not prevent review or restrictions, and each platform's terms still apply. Multi-step checkout and form filling. A permitted multi-page workflow can benefit from short-term route continuity. An unexpected exit change may interrupt the flow or trigger another target check, so record changes and test the actual destination. QA of your own multi-step flows. Testing sign-up, cart, or localized checkout pages on sites you run or are authorized to test is easier when one exit carries the whole flow. Record the observed exit with each run. Long-running browser sessions. For permitted browser workflows that need continuity, reuse a sticky session identifier and monitor whether the observed exit changes. ### When should you use rotating proxies? Web scraping at scale. Rotation can distribute independent requests across the available pool. It does not guarantee a unique address or prevent target rate limits, so measure repeated exits and cap retries. SERP monitoring and SEO tracking. Rotation can distribute independent ranking checks across available exits. Verify observed geography and repeated-address behavior instead of assuming every request receives a previously unused IP. Price comparison and monitoring. Network location is one input that can affect price or availability. Keep account, language, device, request parameters, and timing controlled before attributing a difference to geography. Ad verification. Rotating requests can add network vantage points to placement checks. Publishers can still classify automation and other signals, so record the observed exit, response, creative, and timestamp instead of assuming concealment. ### Can you use both at the same time? Yes. One authorized workflow can use separate credential forms for separate jobs: a sticky identifier for a permitted multi-step session and rotation for independent collection requests. Keep cookies, accounts, and other application state separate because changing the proxy exit does not reset them. With TrueProxies Residential IPv4, choose the base username or -rotate form for rotation and reuse one valid -session-ID form when continuity is required. The existing Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Residential IPv4 Standard products share these connection and session controls; choose between them by measured billing and capacity needs, not by expecting different rotation features. There is no separate rotating-proxy product. ### Troubleshoot rotation and session continuity - The sticky exit changed. Confirm every request uses the identical 1–32 character session ID and supported suffix order. The assigned exit can still change when it is no longer available. - Rotating requests repeat an exit. Repetition is possible because rotation selects from the currently available pool; it does not reserve a previously unused address. - Authentication fails. Read the reason in the X-Proxy-Reason header of the 407, then recheck the username, password, host and port shown on your service. Targeting options can be given in any order, but each only once. Our guide to proxy errors lists every reason. - The hostname does not resolve as expected. Check whether the client resolves DNS locally or through the SOCKS proxy and whether the destination publishes an IPv4 address. - The proxy connects but the target challenges the request. Connectivity, target acceptance, cookies, browser fingerprints, account state, rate limits, retries, and bandwidth are separate observations. Test the exact workflow without treating rotation as ban prevention. ### Frequently asked questions What's the difference between sticky and static proxies?A sticky session attempts to reuse one assigned exit while it remains available. A static proxy is designed as a longer-lived allocation. Exact duration and replacement behavior depend on the provider and product. How long do sticky sessions last?Session duration depends on upstream IP availability and the product you use. Reuse the same session ID when you need continuity, and test the duration against your actual workflow because the assigned IP can change when it is no longer available. Are rotating proxies better for scraping?Use rotation for independent requests that benefit from exit diversity. Use a sticky session when a login, cart, or multi-page flow needs continuity, and measure both modes against the target rather than assuming one always performs better. Does TrueProxies support both sticky and rotating?Both Residential IPv4 products support sticky and rotating request modes. Reuse a valid session ID for continuity, or use the base or explicit -rotate username form for rotation. Test both on the free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap. No card is needed, and it is one per customer. --- ## How to make residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/how-to-make-residential-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-21 · Updated: 2026-07-17 Want to build your own residential proxy network? What it actually takes — infrastructure, cost, legal, and ethical considerations — plus the easier path. ### How to make residential proxies Building a residential proxy network requires sourcing IP addresses from real ISP-connected devices through an SDK, app, or peer network with explicit user consent. It demands significant infrastructure, legal compliance, and ongoing maintenance. For most use cases, buying residential proxies is faster, cheaper, and lower risk. ### What it takes to build a residential proxy network A residential proxy network routes traffic through IP addresses assigned by real ISPs to real households. Unlike datacenter proxies, you can't simply rent servers — you need access to actual residential internet connections. Building one from scratch requires three core components: a source of residential IP addresses (the hardest part), a backconnect server infrastructure to manage traffic routing and session control, and a user-facing dashboard or API for proxy management and authentication. The technical barrier is high, and the ethical and legal requirements add significant complexity. Here's what each component involves. ### How residential proxy providers source IPs SDK/app integration. The most common method. You build or license an SDK that's embedded into consumer applications. When users install the app and opt in, their device's internet connection is used to route proxy traffic. The user gets compensation (free premium features, direct payment, or rewards). This is how Bright Data, Oxylabs, and most major providers operate. Peer-to-peer networks. Users install a dedicated application that shares their bandwidth in exchange for compensation. Examples include Honeygain, PacketStream, and IPRoyal Pawns. The proxy provider aggregates these connections into a pool. ISP partnerships. Some providers negotiate directly with ISPs to lease residential IP ranges and assign them to proxy infrastructure. This produces “ISP proxies” — residential IPs with datacenter-level performance. It requires significant capital and business relationships. Browser extensions. A lightweight alternative to SDKs. Users install a browser extension that routes proxy traffic through their connection. This is simpler to distribute but more limited in capability than a full SDK. In every case, ethical sourcing requires explicit, informed user consent. Providers that source IPs through malware, deceptive apps, or without clear disclosure face legal action and network bans. ### Infrastructure you need to build Backconnect gateway servers. These are the routing layer that sits between your users' proxy requests and the residential IPs. Gateway servers handle authentication, IP rotation, session management, and geographic targeting. You need gateways in multiple regions to minimize latency. IP management system. Software that tracks which residential IPs are currently online, their geographic location, ISP, connection quality, and reputation score. IPs go online and offline as real users connect and disconnect — your system needs to handle this dynamically. Dashboard and API. A user-facing interface for customers to generate proxy credentials, configure geo-targeting, monitor usage, and manage billing. Monitoring and quality control. Automated systems to test IP quality, detect abusive usage, remove flagged IPs, and maintain uptime. A proxy network without quality monitoring degrades rapidly. ### Cost and timeline to build a residential proxy network Building a production residential proxy network requires work across IP sourcing, routing, monitoring, security, compliance, and customer operations. The cost and timeline depend on scale, geography, traffic, and the sourcing model. IP sourcing: An SDK, app partnerships, or an opt-in peer program requires explicit participant consent, reliable attribution, abuse controls, and ongoing partner operations. Infrastructure: Backconnect servers, bandwidth, observability, and regional capacity must scale with concurrent sessions and transferred traffic. Development: The routing layer, session management, authentication, API, dashboard, billing, and abuse response all need production ownership. Legal and compliance: Consent frameworks, privacy notices, data-protection obligations, customer verification, and acceptable-use enforcement vary by jurisdiction and business model. Obtain qualified legal advice for the markets you serve. Timeline: Plan around validated milestones instead of a universal estimate: consented supply, routing, monitoring, security review, billing, support, and a controlled production rollout. ### Legal and ethical requirements Legal and compliance obligations differ by jurisdiction and sourcing model. The following operational principles are a starting point, not legal advice: User consent must be explicit and informed. The user must clearly understand that their internet connection will be used to route third-party traffic. Buried consent in a 50-page terms of service document doesn't meet the standard most regulators now expect. GDPR and CCPA compliance. If your users or their data touch the EU or California, you need full data protection compliance — data processing agreements, right to opt out, data minimization, and transparent disclosure. Acceptable use enforcement. You're responsible for what traffic passes through your network. This means implementing and enforcing acceptable use policies that prevent illegal activity, fraud, and abuse through your residential IPs. ### When building your own network makes sense Building may make sense when you already have a consented supply channel, need control of the full routing stack, and can staff engineering, security, compliance, support, and abuse operations. For teams without those capabilities, buying access from an established provider can reduce setup time and operational scope. Compare the provider's sourcing, controls, coverage, and performance against your requirements. ### Why most teams buy instead of build TrueProxies publishes access to a 50M+ residential IP pool across 150+ countries without requiring customers to build the routing and supply infrastructure themselves. Customers remain responsible for lawful use and for the requirements that apply to their own workloads. Compare usage-based pricing from $1.10 for 1 GB with unlimited bandwidth from $4.08/hour for 10 Mbps, then start a trial (1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap, no card, one per customer) before deciding whether buying or building fits better. ### Frequently asked questions Can I build my own residential proxy network?Yes, but it requires sourcing IPs through an SDK or peer network with user consent, building routing infrastructure, and maintaining legal compliance. Most teams find it faster and cheaper to buy from a provider. How do residential proxy providers get their IPs?Through SDK integrations in consumer apps, peer-to-peer bandwidth-sharing programs, or ISP partnerships. Ethical providers require explicit, informed user consent before routing any traffic through a residential connection. Is it legal to make a residential proxy network?That depends on how addresses are sourced, what traffic is routed, where participants and customers are located, and the laws that apply. Explicit informed consent and strong acceptable-use controls are essential, but they are not a substitute for qualified legal advice. How much does it cost to build a residential proxy network?There is no reliable universal figure. Model consented IP acquisition, engineering, bandwidth, regional infrastructure, monitoring, security, compliance, billing, support, and abuse response for your intended scale, then compare that total with provider pricing. --- ## ISP vs residential proxies: what's the difference? URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/isp-vs-residential-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-21 · Updated: 2026-09-29 ISP proxies use addresses registered to an internet provider but run on servers in a data center, so one address can stay assigned to you for a whole plan. Residential proxies route through household connections from a large rotating pool. Choose ISP proxies for long, stable sessions and residential proxies for exit diversity and location targeting. ### What is the difference between ISP and residential proxies? ISP proxies use ISP-assigned addresses hosted on server infrastructure, while standard residential proxy pools route through residential-network exits. Compare allocation duration, usable geography, destination acceptance, latency, and pricing for the workload you actually run. TrueProxies sells this kind of address as Static ISP: static IPv4 on a named internet provider's network, sold per IP for a day, a week or a month. This guide explains both types so you can compare them with the residential and datacenter products we also sell. ### What are ISP proxies? ISP proxies (also called static residential proxies) use IP addresses assigned by real internet service providers but hosted on data center infrastructure. The address belongs to a network an internet provider operates, so IP databases may type it as ISP rather than hosting: IPinfo, for example, labels each network as isp, hosting, business, education or government. The traffic still runs from a server rather than a household device. Hosted infrastructure can support longer-lived allocation and more consistent routing than a rotating residential exit. Actual latency, uptime, and session duration still depend on the provider, region, address, and destination. The trade-off is usually a smaller static pool and narrower geography than a large rotating residential network. Compare the provider's usable exits for the exact markets you need rather than relying on category-wide pool estimates. ### What are residential proxies? Standard residential proxy networks provide ISP-origin exits from residential networks. Sourcing models vary by provider, so review the provider's consent, disclosure, and abuse-control documentation separately from performance claims. Residential origin can reduce classification as hosted infrastructure, but destinations can still evaluate address reputation, request behavior, account signals, and browser characteristics. No proxy origin guarantees acceptance. TrueProxies publishes a 50M+ Residential IPv4 Standard pool across 150+ countries with country, city, region, and ASN targeting. Unlimited uses a separate 16M+ worldwide pool with country and city targeting. Pool totals do not guarantee a unique exit per request or uniform availability in every city, so verify the markets you need. The trade-off: performance depends on the underlying residential connection. Latency and throughput vary by exit network, region, and destination, and an assigned address can become unavailable. ### How do ISP and residential proxies compare? | Feature | ISP proxies | Residential proxies | | --- | --- | --- | | IP source | ISP-assigned, hosted on servers | ISP-assigned, routed through real devices | | Performance | Usually optimized for stable server routing | Varies by residential exit | | Availability | Designed for persistent allocation | An assigned exit can become unavailable | | Pool profile | Smaller static pools | Larger rotating pools | | Network identity | ISP-assigned address on hosted infrastructure | ISP-origin residential route | | Allocation model | Designed for longer-lived assignment | Sticky or rotating; exit availability can change | | Geo-targeting | Limited locations | Country; finer controls vary by routed network | | Best for | Long, stable sessions from one address | Scraping, rotation-heavy tasks | | Cost model | Often priced per IP | Often priced by GB or capacity | ### When should you use ISP proxies? Longer-lived allocation. Test ISP proxies when a workflow needs one assigned address beyond the continuity window available from a residential sticky session. Latency-sensitive operations. Hosted routing may suit workloads where latency matters, but benchmark the exact exit region and destination before choosing. Small static allocations. An ISP proxy can fit a workload that needs a limited set of persistent addresses rather than frequent rotation. ### When should you use residential proxies? Rotation-heavy web scraping. A large residential pool is worth testing when independent requests need exit diversity across published markets. Geo-targeted data collection. Residential IPv4 Standard offers country, city, region and ASN targeting across 150+ countries. Residential IPv4 Unlimited offers country and city targeting. Confirm the current selector and the returned exit before relying on them. Usage-based billing. TrueProxies Residential IPv4 Standard starts at $1.10 for 1 GB. Compare that unit with the ISP provider's current per-IP, traffic, and duration charges; the headline numbers are not directly equivalent. High-volume IP rotation. A larger residential pool can provide more exit diversity, but a rotation request does not guarantee an address that has never appeared before. ### Does TrueProxies sell ISP proxies? Yes. Static ISP gives you static IPv4 addresses on a named internet provider's network; IP lookups show that provider. You pick a carrier, a country plus the provider, and a number of IPs; each IP is yours alone for a day, a week or a month, with its own gateway port, over HTTP or SOCKS5. The carrier fixes the location, so there are no city, region or ASN options. TrueProxies also sells Residential IPv4 Standard, Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Datacenter IPv6, a private /48 in one city per plan. Residential IPv6 rotates IPv6 addresses from a private /48 on a home internet provider’s network in Ashburn, Virginia, United States. These support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5. For workflows considering ISP proxies, test TrueProxies Residential IPv4 sticky sessions against the required continuity window. Then compare observed duration, target acceptance, latency, and total cost with a static ISP allocation. Start a trial to measure sticky sessions: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap. No card is needed, and it is one per customer. ### Frequently asked questions Are ISP proxies better than residential proxies?Neither category is universally better. ISP proxies emphasize longer-lived hosted allocation, while rotating residential networks emphasize pool and geography diversity. Test the dimensions that matter to your workload. Can I use residential proxies instead of ISP proxies?Sometimes. Residential proxies with sticky sessions can support workflows that need short-term continuity, while ISP proxies are designed for longer-lived allocation and stable hosted routing. Test session duration, latency, and target acceptance for your workload. What does ISP proxy mean?An ISP proxy uses an ISP-assigned address hosted on server infrastructure and is often marketed as a static residential proxy. Its reputation, latency, and availability still depend on the actual address and route. Which is better for web scraping — ISP or residential?Use matched tests. A rotating residential pool may fit geography and exit-diversity requirements, while an ISP allocation may fit a persistent session. Compare success rate, retries, latency, usable exits, and cost. ### What changed in this update? September 29, 2026: added a direct answer and an IP data source, corrected the TrueProxies product list and targeting facts, and rewrote headings as questions. --- ## How to compare datacenter proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/best-datacenter-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-21 · Updated: 2026-07-18 Learn how to compare datacenter proxies by address family, region coverage, pricing unit, protocols, and target compatibility. ### How to compare datacenter proxies A useful datacenter proxy comparison starts with the workload: confirm the destination accepts the address family, test representative targets, and compare location coverage and pricing units. Review TrueProxies' IPv6 datacenter proxy pricing and compatibility: plans start at $3.99/day for 25 Mbps, with a private /48 in one city you choose at checkout. ### The factors that matter in a datacenter proxy comparison Compare datacenter proxies on address family, range reputation, region placement, pricing unit, protocol support, and results against your actual destinations. IP allocation and reputation. Ask how the provider monitors its ranges and replace assumptions about “fresh” addresses with tests against the destinations you actually use. Address age alone does not guarantee acceptance. Geographic coverage. Region options affect the available network paths, but a nearby label does not guarantee lower latency. Benchmark the offered exits against the destination. Bandwidth model. Compare per-GB, per-proxy, and fixed-plan prices using the same period and workload. Unlimited transfer can still be constrained by concurrency, routing, and destination response time. Protocol support. HTTP and HTTPS are standard, but SOCKS5 support opens up use cases beyond web scraping — including FTP, email protocols, and custom TCP applications. ### A comparison method that survives pricing changes | Question | What to verify | Why it matters | | --- | --- | --- | | Address family | IPv4, IPv6, or both | The destination must support the offered route | | Coverage | Published countries or regions | Region labels are not the same as country-level exits | | Pricing unit | Per proxy, per GB, or fixed plan | Headline prices are not comparable across units | | Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 | Your client and target determine the required protocol | | Performance | Matched target tests at your concurrency | Provider-wide averages do not predict your workload | ### When IPv6 datacenter proxies fit IPv4 and IPv6 datacenter products are not interchangeable. Confirm that the client and destination support the offered address family before comparing range size or price. IPv6 provides a much larger address space than IPv4, but address abundance does not automatically produce good reputation or compatibility. Test the exact sites and tools you plan to use, because some destinations still handle IPv6 differently. For destinations that accept IPv6, a datacenter IPv6 product can provide a large infrastructure address space. Address abundance does not imply cleaner reputation, lower latency, or acceptance, so validate the actual assigned ranges. The TrueProxies IPv6 datacenter product provides a private /48 in one city you choose at checkout and starts at $3.99/day for 25 Mbps, with no per-GB charge. ### Workloads to test with datacenter proxies High-volume collection from compatible sites. When a destination accepts infrastructure traffic, compare datacenter throughput and successful-response cost with other proxy types. API access and data feeds. If the API permits proxy access and accepts the range, test datacenter exits for latency, rate limits, and retry behavior. SEO tool operations. Rank checking and monitoring can use datacenter exits where the destination accepts them; verify that observed location and result quality meet the job requirements. Load testing and performance monitoring. For infrastructure you are authorized to test, region-based datacenter exits can provide additional network vantage points. QA and compatibility testing. Use region-based exits to verify how your own application handles IPv6, localization, and network-origin differences. ### When to choose residential over datacenter proxies Test residential proxies when the destination treats infrastructure ranges differently or when the job requires Residential IPv4 country selection. Finer city, region, or ASN controls are route-specific, and a residential address does not guarantee target acceptance. TrueProxies offers rotating Datacenter IPv6 from $3.99/day, Residential IPv4 Standard from $1.10 for 1 GB, and unlimited-bandwidth Residential IPv4 from $4.08/hour for 10 Mbps. Test representative targets before choosing, then read our residential vs. datacenter comparison for the trade-offs. ### Frequently asked questions What are datacenter proxies used for?Common uses include high-volume collection from targets that accept infrastructure traffic, API access, SEO monitoring, load testing, and QA. Compare actual latency, success rate, retries, and cost for your destination. Are datacenter proxies safe?A proxy changes the network route and visible exit address; it does not make an unsafe destination, client, or credential workflow secure. Evaluate the provider, use encrypted destination connections, and protect credentials. What's the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 datacenter proxies?They use different address families. IPv6 has a much larger address space, but the target and client must support it; reputation and success still depend on the actual range and destination. How fast are datacenter proxies?Performance depends on the provider, exit region, network path, destination, and concurrency. Benchmark representative requests from the regions you plan to use instead of assuming a universal response time. Can I use datacenter proxies for social media?Platform acceptance varies, and infrastructure-origin traffic may be classified differently. Follow the platform's rules and test a representative workflow before choosing datacenter or Residential IPv4 with sticky sessions. --- ## Residential vs. datacenter proxies: how to choose the right type URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-08 · Updated: 2026-09-29 Residential proxies send traffic from IP addresses that consumer internet providers assign to homes; datacenter proxies use addresses owned by hosting companies. Websites and IP databases can tell the two apart, so residential suits targets that treat hosting traffic differently, while datacenter is often faster and cheaper per connection. Test your own targets before choosing. ### What is the difference between residential and datacenter proxies? The difference is who owns the IP address. A residential proxy exits through an address that a consumer internet provider assigned to a household connection. A datacenter proxy exits through an address in a hosting company's network. IP data services label the two separately: MaxMind's GeoIP web services return a user type such as residential, hosting, business or cellular, and IPinfo types each network as isp, hosting, business, education or government. That label is one of many signals a website can use, and it does not decide acceptance on its own. The useful comparison is a matched test on your own targets. This guide covers how each type works, how pricing units differ, and how to run a small test before you commit production traffic. ### What are residential proxies? Residential proxies use ISP-assigned addresses from residential networks. That origin can reduce the chance of being classified as hosted infrastructure, but it does not make automated traffic identical to a person or guarantee acceptance. Destinations can evaluate far more than the network owner, including request patterns, account behavior, browser signals, and address reputation. Measure successful responses and retries on the exact target instead of assuming that residential origin guarantees access. TrueProxies sells several residential products. Residential IPv4 Standard draws on a 50M+ pool in 150+ countries, with country, city, region and ASN targeting. Residential IPv4 Unlimited uses a separate pool of 16M+ addresses with country and city targeting. Confirm current location availability and test representative exits for the geography and destination you need. ### What are datacenter proxies? Datacenter proxies use IP addresses hosted on servers in commercial data centers. These IPs are not associated with an ISP or a residential address. They are created in bulk by hosting providers and proxy networks. Datacenter routes are commonly selected for throughput-focused workloads and are often priced per proxy or as a fixed plan. Actual latency and cost depend on region, network path, concurrency, destination, and the provider's pricing unit. The trade-off is that destinations can more readily classify known hosting ranges as infrastructure traffic. Whether that affects success depends on the destination and workload, so test acceptance instead of assuming every protected site behaves the same way. TrueProxies offers Datacenter IPv6: a private /48 for each service, one city per plan chosen at checkout, and a new address for each connection by default, from $3.99 a day at 25 Mbps. It reaches IPv6 sites only. See what an IPv6 proxy is and how to check a site's IPv6 support. ### How do residential and datacenter proxies compare? | Factor | Residential | Datacenter | | --- | --- | --- | | Who owns the IP address | A consumer internet provider, which assigns it to a household | A hosting or cloud company | | How IP databases label it | Residential or ISP | Hosting | | Network classification | Usually appears as ISP-origin traffic | More readily identified as hosted traffic | | Performance | Varies by residential exit and destination | Server-hosted routes; varies by region and destination | | Pricing unit | Per GB, or per plan speed and term | Per proxy, per plan, or per plan speed and term | | Sessions | Sticky, or a new exit per connection | A fixed address, or a new address per connection from a range | | TrueProxies products | Residential IPv4 Unlimited and Residential IPv4 Standard | Datacenter IPv6, for IPv6 sites only | | Best for | Workloads needing residential origin or granular targeting | Targets that accept hosted traffic, QA, and volume tasks | ### When should you use residential proxies? Residential proxies are worth testing when a destination treats infrastructure-origin traffic differently or when the job needs residential geography controls. Acceptance still depends on the address, request behavior, account, and destination. - Web scraping where the destination responds differently to infrastructure ranges. See how to test proxies for web scraping for a deeper breakdown. - Localized rank tracking where exit geography affects observed results. Validate the returned location and result set for your SEO monitoring workflow. - Permitted logins and multi-step flows that need one IP for a short time. Use a sticky session and keep the account's activity within the platform's terms. - Ad verification from selected residential routes where you need to inspect placements, creatives, redirects, and limitations from a published market. ### When should you use datacenter proxies? Datacenter proxies are worth testing when the target accepts hosted traffic and the workload emphasizes throughput, fixed proxy counts, or region placement. Compare successful-response cost rather than assuming the lower headline price wins. - High-volume collection of public data from sites that accept hosted traffic, such as public databases and public APIs. - Monitoring your own sites and services from outside your network. - Internal testing and QA where you only need fast, stable access from different network regions. ### Can you use both? Yes. A mixed design can route workloads according to measured target compatibility, geography, throughput, and pricing. Keep the routing rule evidence-based and retest it when the destination or provider changes. - Residential IPv4 Unlimited for continuous residential workloads. - Residential IPv4 Standard for lighter or variable residential usage. - Residential IPv6 for IPv6-native environments that need addresses on a home internet provider’s network, with a new address for every request from more than 500,000 /48 blocks. - Datacenter IPv6 for IPv6-reachable targets that accept hosted traffic. ### Which costs less, residential or datacenter proxies? The products use different pricing units, so their headline numbers are not directly comparable. Convert each option into cost per successful response or completed job using the same destinations, regions, request volume, and retry policy. | Product | Starting price | Pricing model | | --- | --- | --- | | Residential IPv4 Unlimited | $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps | Plan speed and term; unlimited traffic | | Residential IPv4 Standard | From $1.10 for 1 GB | Traffic packs; pay for data transferred | | Datacenter IPv6 | $3.99/day at 25 Mbps | Plan speed; daily, 7-day, or monthly; no per-GB charge | Prices were checked on September 29, 2026. For Residential IPv4, compare the selected unlimited speed-and-duration price with expected transferred gigabytes at the applicable per-GB rate. Our guide to unlimited vs. per-GB residential proxies explains the calculation. ### Which should you choose? Shortlist residential proxies when ISP origin or granular residential geography is a requirement. Shortlist datacenter proxies when the target accepts infrastructure traffic and region placement or proxy-count capacity fits the job. If you're not sure which type fits your workload, start a trial to test Unlimited Pro on your own targets: 1 hour at 10 Mbps with no traffic cap. No card is needed, and it is one per customer. There is no Datacenter IPv6 trial. Success rate on the sites you care about matters more than generic proxy benchmarks. ### What changed in this update? September 29, 2026: added a direct answer and IP data sources, expanded the comparison table, updated the Datacenter IPv6 and Residential IPv4 facts, and replaced two use-case examples. --- ## Unlimited vs per-GB residential proxies: the break-even math URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/unmetered-vs-gb-based-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-06 · Updated: 2026-09-30 Unlimited residential proxies charge for plan speed and time, so extra traffic costs nothing; per-GB plans charge for every gigabyte. On September 29, 2026 prices a 10 Mbps monthly plan ($121.13) equals about 124 GB at the 100 GB pack rate, so steady workloads above that usually cost less on unlimited. Below that, or for occasional jobs, traffic packs win. ### Is unlimited or pay-per-GB cheaper for residential proxies? It depends on how much traffic you move and how evenly you move it. Unlimited residential proxies cost the same whatever you transfer, up to what the plan speed can carry, so they win for steady, heavy traffic. Traffic packs cost more per GB at small sizes but nothing when you are idle, so they win for light or occasional work. On TrueProxies prices from September 29, 2026, the line sits near 124 GB a month for a 10 Mbps plan: below it a traffic pack costs less, above it the $121.13 monthly plan does. For a job that fits in one hour, the line is about 3.7 GB. The rest of this article shows where those numbers come from, what unlimited does and does not cover, and how to check your own workload in the proxy cost calculator. ### What unlimited residential proxies mean An unlimited plan charges a fixed price for a plan speed and a duration, with no per-GB billing. Providers also call this unmetered residential proxies or unlimited bandwidth proxies; the model is the same. At TrueProxies, Residential IPv4 Unlimited has hourly plans from 10 to 100 Mbps and daily, weekly and monthly plans from 10 Mbps to 1 Gbps, from $4.08 for one hour on a separate 16M+ worldwide residential IPv4 pool. Speed is the billing variable. You choose how fast traffic may move and for how long. The selected Mbps rate limits throughput even though transferred data is not metered, so a tier is chosen by measuring target response time, request size and concurrency, not by guessing gigabytes. Duration is the other variable. Compare the full price of the duration that covers your job instead of multiplying the headline hourly rate: 720 hours of the 10 Mbps hourly plan would cost $2,937.60, while the monthly plan is $121.13. Access ends with the purchased duration; a renewal raises an invoice, charged to your saved card only when Automatic renewal is on. - Best for always-on crawlers and recurring monitoring jobs. - Easier to budget for the purchased duration because transferred gigabytes do not change its price. - Useful when multiple teams or automations share the same residential pool. ### The catch: fair use, connection caps and throttling Most unlimited residential plans on the market carry a limit somewhere else: a fair-use clause that throttles or suspends heavy accounts, a cap on concurrent connections or threads, a per-port price, or a pool that is really static ISP or datacenter addresses. Read the terms before comparing prices, because a plan that throttles at 30% utilization is not the plan the price table describes. TrueProxies publishes its limits on the product page instead of in a fair-use clause: the plan speed caps how fast traffic moves, targeting is country-level, hourly and daily plans are non-refundable, and the acceptable use policy restricts what you do through the proxies, not how many gigabytes you move. Nothing counts down while you work. The honest limit is physics. Plan speed decides the most data a plan can move, and real residential throughput sits below it because destinations respond slowly, requests are retried and connections sit idle. That is why the next table matters more than the word unlimited. ### How much data each speed moves 10 Mbps is 1.25 megabytes per second, using the SI prefixes defined by NIST (mega = 10^6, giga = 10^9). One Mbps for an hour is 0.45 GB, so a speed tier's ceiling is Mbps × 0.45 per hour. At 100% use, a plan carries: | Plan speed | Per hour | Per day | Per 30 days | Cost per GB on the daily plan | Cost per GB on the monthly plan | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 10 Mbps | 4.5 GB | 108 GB | 3,240 GB | $0.068 ($7.35) | $0.037 ($121.13) | | 25 Mbps | 11.25 GB | 270 GB | 8,100 GB | $0.046 ($12.30) | $0.025 ($202.71) | | 50 Mbps | 22.5 GB | 540 GB | 16,200 GB | $0.038 ($20.28) | $0.021 ($334.22) | | 100 Mbps | 45 GB | 1,080 GB | 32,400 GB | $0.032 ($34.84) | $0.018 ($574.18) | Treat the cost per GB as a floor, not a quote: it assumes the plan runs flat out for the whole duration. A crawler that averages 30% of its plan speed pays about three times these figures per GB, which is still under the $0.60/GB that the largest TrueProxies traffic pack reaches, and under the 2026 market-average per-GB rates the calculator benchmarks against. ### How the billing models differ Per-GB billing ties cost directly to transferred traffic. At TrueProxies you buy it as traffic packs on Residential IPv4 Standard, and traffic never expires. That suits testing a workflow, launching a proof of concept, or workloads that run in bursts rather than all day, and Standard and Premium are the only products with region and ASN targeting. Unlimited plans price capacity through a speed tier and a duration rather than measured gigabytes. The trade-off is a fixed throughput ceiling instead of a variable usage bill. Both products support HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 and sticky or rotating sessions, but they use separate pools with different location controls, so retest your targets after switching. | Factor | Unlimited | Per-GB | | --- | --- | --- | | Billing variable | Plan speed and duration | Transferred gigabytes | | Light or intermittent use | Compare the shortest duration price | Usually cheaper; cost follows actual transfer | | Continuous use | Transfer is unlimited within the speed cap | Cost rises with every gigabyte | | Capacity planning | Needs a throughput estimate | Needs a data-transfer estimate | | Targeting | Country | Country, city, region, ASN | | Starting price | $4.08 for 1 hour at 10 Mbps | $1.10 for 1 GB | ### Break-even at three workloads Three common jobs, priced on the TrueProxies catalog from September 29, 2026. The traffic pack is the smallest single pack that covers the month; the unlimited plan is the slowest tier that can carry the traffic in the time available. Check current prices before you decide. | Workload | Traffic per month | Traffic pack | Unlimited plan | Cheaper on these prices | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | SEO rank tracking: a few thousand result pages a day, spread across the day | About 20 GB | $26.40 (24 GB pack) | $121.13 (10 Mbps monthly) | Traffic pack, by about $95 | | E-commerce price monitoring: catalog crawls every few hours | About 300 GB, steady | $259.57 (300 GB pack) | $121.13 (10 Mbps monthly, which carries up to 3,240 GB) | Unlimited, by about $138 | | AI training data collection: continuous page fetching | About 1,000 GB, steady | $810.50 (1,000 GB pack) | $121.13 at 10 Mbps, or $202.71 at 25 Mbps for headroom | Unlimited, by $600 or more | Two more break-even lines are worth memorizing. The 10 Mbps daily plan ($7.35) beats the 1 GB pack rate ($1.10/GB) above about 6.7 GB in a day and the lowest pack rate ($0.60/GB, reached at 5,000 GB) above about 12 GB in a day. One hour at 10 Mbps ($4.08) beats $1.10/GB above about 3.7 GB in that hour but never beats the 5,000 GB pack's rate, so hourly plans are for short bursts, not bulk; the hourly residential proxies page works the hour-versus-day cases through. Price is not the only difference. If you need ASN targeting, only Standard and Premium offer it, and that decides the question before price does. And the quoted traffic is an assumption: a measured ad verification workflow that fetches media-heavy pages can move ten times the data of a rank tracker with the same request count, which is why the recommendation below starts with a measurement. ### Speed tier, per port or per thread: three kinds of unlimited Unlimited proxies are sold three ways, and the search results mix them up. Speed-tier plans (TrueProxies, and a few other residential providers) sell Mbps for a duration; every connection shares the speed. Per-port plans sell a number of proxy ports, each with unlimited traffic but often a low per-port speed and a fixed IP behind it, which suits static ISP proxies more than rotating residential pools. Per-thread plans charge for concurrent connections instead of traffic, so the bill rises with parallelism, not gigabytes. The cost comparison changes with the model. A per-thread plan looks cheap for a single slow crawler and expensive for a fast one; a per-port plan looks cheap until you need rotation across many exits. A speed-tier plan is the only one where the price stays put as you add threads, which is why the calculation in this article only needs two inputs: gigabytes and hours. ### Who benefits most from unlimited proxies Continuous web scraping. A catalog crawler running every day can burn through paid traffic faster than teams expect, especially when retries and anti-bot defenses raise the request count. Once the crawl is continuous, unlimited pricing usually wins. SEO monitoring at scale. Rank checks are lightweight, so most SEO teams stay on traffic packs. Unlimited starts to pay when the check list grows into the hundreds of thousands of keywords a day or when the same plan also feeds a content crawler. Ad verification and brand protection. Repeated media-heavy checks transfer substantial data, so measure one representative run before comparing billing models. Market research and brand protection often start on traffic packs and move to unlimited when the job becomes always-on. Testing and development. Frequent iterations suit a short fixed-duration plan, an hour or a day, while occasional low-transfer tests remain cheaper per GB. ### When per-GB wins Traffic packs cost less whenever the plan speed you would pay for sits mostly idle: daily or weekly rank checks, a new project with unknown traffic, a proof of concept, or any job under roughly 124 GB a month at 10 Mbps. They also win outright when the job needs region or ASN targeting on Standard or Premium, and when a small pack covers a short job that does not fill an hour, such as 3 GB for $3.30 against $4.08 for an hour you would use a fraction of. Per-GB also wins on bursty schedules. Ten jobs a month that each move 5 GB in five minutes cost one 50 GB pack, while the same jobs on hourly plans cost ten hours at $4.08 each. The calculator handles this case by rounding each run up to whole hours, days or weeks, which is the honest way to price a speed-tier plan. ### How to decide without guessing 1. Run your workflow for a week on a traffic pack, or for an hour on the free trial: 1 hour of Unlimited Pro at 10 Mbps with unlimited traffic, started with a verified email. 2. Record total bandwidth, retry rates and concurrency peaks. 3. Project that usage across a full month. 4. Compare the projected pack spend against the slowest unlimited plan that can carry the peak, in the proxy cost calculator. 5. Switch once the production workload is stable, and retest your targets on the new pool. The guide to sizing your plan speed shows how to turn a measured batch into the speed you need. If you are still deciding between proxy classes as well as pricing, read our comparison of residential and datacenter proxies next. ### Frequently asked questions Are unlimited residential proxies really unlimited?The data is. The limits are the plan speed, the targeting depth and the acceptable use policy. Check whether a provider adds a fair-use clause; TrueProxies publishes its limits on the product page instead. How much data can I use on a 10 Mbps unlimited plan?Up to 4.5 GB an hour, 108 GB a day or 3,240 GB in 30 days at a constant 10 Mbps. Actual throughput depends on target response times and your scraper's concurrency, so measure before you size. Is a monthly unlimited plan cheaper than traffic packs?Above about 124 GB a month at 10 Mbps, yes, on September 29, 2026 prices. Below that, the 100 GB pack or smaller costs less. Faster tiers move the line up in proportion to their price. Can I switch from per-GB to unlimited later?Yes. Many teams validate traffic patterns on a traffic pack first, then move to unlimited. The products use separate pools, so retest your countries and targets after switching. ### What changed in this update? September 30, 2026: merged the earlier post on unlimited versus metered pricing into this one, added the limits section, the data-per-speed table with cost per GB, three worked workloads and the per-port versus per-thread comparison. September 29, 2026: added a direct answer, a break-even table from current prices, traffic pack validity and the targeting difference between the two products. --- ## How to scrape websites with Python and residential proxies URL: https://trueproxies.com/blog/how-to-scrape-websites-with-python-and-residential-proxies/ Author: John Hale · Published: 2026-03-02 · Updated: 2026-09-23 A practical Python setup for permitted web data collection, including proxy configuration, session handling, retries, and choosing a pricing plan. ### Configure Python requests for your data collection workflow A reliable Python workflow starts with connection setup, sensible timeouts, and clear error handling. Check that you have permission to collect the data, follow the site’s usage rules, and use an official API when one is available. Residential proxies route your requests through residential IP addresses. They can help you check location-specific responses and keep a session on a consistent route. They do not grant permission to access restricted data or override a website’s access controls. ### Start with a simple requests setup ```python import requests proxy_url = "http://USER:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT" proxies = {"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url} response = requests.get("https://httpbin.org/ip", proxies=proxies, timeout=30) print(response.status_code) print(response.text[:200]) ``` This is the same connection model highlighted on the homepage and in our proxies for web scraping page. If this request works, your credentials and routing are in place. ### Add retries before you scale ```python import requests from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter from urllib3.util.retry import Retry proxy_url = "http://USER:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT" retry = Retry(total=5, backoff_factor=1, status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504]) session = requests.Session() session.mount("http://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)) session.mount("https://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=retry)) response = session.get( "https://example.com/data", proxies={"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url}, timeout=30, ) print(response.status_code) ``` Use bounded retries for temporary connection failures and server errors. Respect Retry-After and the site’s rate limits, and stop when access is denied. ### When to rotate and when to stay sticky For permitted catalog and search-result collection, choose rotating sessions when each request can be independent. For authorized logged-in workflows and multistep sessions, keep the same IP long enough to finish the action. Changing IP addresses does not remove the site’s rate limits or access requirements. If your Python workflow includes browser automation as well as API-style requests, use the same rule: stability for authenticated sessions, distribution for crawl breadth. ### When to choose traffic packs vs. unlimited Use pay-per-GB residential proxies when you are testing selectors, validating response quality, or scraping a modest number of pages each day. Move to Residential IPv4 Unlimited when the crawl becomes continuous and you want cost predictability. If you are still comparing pricing models, read our unlimited vs. per-GB guide after this article. ### A production checklist 1. Validate proxy credentials against a simple endpoint first. 2. Log response status, timing, and retry count for each target. 3. Control request rate before you increase concurrency. 4. Use location targeting when the target changes content by market. 5. Upgrade the billing model before growth makes cost unpredictable.