man, just had a bad run with some proxies for automating social media stuff. Bought a bunch of residentials, paid like 3 bucks each, thinking they'd be gold for scraping and automating, but wow, got blocked like crazy. Ran a campaign for 2 days and lost almost 200 bucks cause the accounts got flagged, all cuz the proxies just weren't good enough. Some of the cheap resis looked legit but turned out to be super slow and flagged within hours. Tried datacenter ones too, cheaper but more stable, but they got banned way faster than I expected. Mobile proxies sounded promising but also pricey, and honestly, no difference really. It's like, I spend all this cash and get nothing but headaches. My last batch was around 30 bucks a pop, and most of them were junk. Does anyone have legit recs? Or should I just stick to scraping with cheap proxies and accept the risk? Lowkey, I think I need a serious upgrade but the prices make me wanna cry.

Proxies are like dating apps, lol, looks good but usually just a headache and a scam, maybe just accept some risk or learn to scrape smarter instead of dropping all that cash on junk.

been doing this 3 years, still remember blowing 150 on what I thought were legit resis and they barely lasted a day, now I just run with cheap bads and accept the chaos.

honestly, proxies are a total crapshoot now, and 3 bucks each is basically throwing money into a fire. 3) if you wanna scrape smarter, try rotating, low-freq scraping, or just accept some risk and save

honestly, rotating proxies help a little but aren't magic. If the quality isn't there, you just get banned anyway. Think about how many times you gotta change IPs to even make a dent, and that still doesn't fix slow or junk proxies. If you wanna go legit, you gotta pay or accept chaos.

just my 2 cents, proxies can be hit or miss depending on provider and target platform. sometimes they're legit, sometimes a total ripoff. ymmv.

been doing this 3 years and I agree. some proxies work fine for a while then just die or get banned fast, especially on bigger platforms. total hit or miss depending on provider and how

Bruh, what if the issue ain't the proxies but the way we're using them? maybe the problem is the method or the platforms' latest anti-proxy tech. ever tried rotating proxies smarter or mixing up IPs more?

thanks for the input guys. yeah, I think its mostly about the provider and how we rotate IPs. I tried smarter rotating but still hit or miss. maybe I need better proxies or just accept it's a crapshoot now.