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    Watching push notif traffic go from gold rush to trash fire

    Anyone else remember 2018-2019 when you could throw up a sweepstakes or a simple CPI offer on push and the roas would print? I was running stuff through a tiny prop stack and it just worked. Now it feels like 95% of it is just junk networks and invisible bots. Tried a new network last week they...
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    Mobile proxies man, prices are nuts compared to like 2018

    Remember when you could get a decent mobile proxy pool for a couple hundred a month? Feels like forever ago now. These days everyone's charging crazy high rates per GB or for those rotating pools. I was trying to set up some mobile app install tests and the quotes I got were insane. I think back...
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    mobile app installs - everyone says run ads but the offers suck

    tired of reading about running fb ads on app installs. the actual problem is finding the offer. i tried a few networks and its either outdated low pay cpi or offers that have zero volume. looking at mobidea and mobipium as a comparison. mobidea dashboard is a mess but iirc they have some direct...
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    Amazon Associates 2025 - anyone actually making decent money?

    so i found this kinda weird niche last month and started putting up some comparison posts. didn't expect much but my dashboard shows like 487 bucks in commissions for march so far and its only the 12th. mostly from tools and some electronics. idk if its a fluke or what. been hearing forever that...
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    Going to Japan next week need a vpn that unblocks us netflix

    so i got this trip coming up and honestly ive been putting off the vpn stuff like forever. just want something that actually works with us netflix and maybe hbo max from tokyo. last time i used my old vpn it was a total lag fest and i kept getting proxy errors. so done with that. dont care about...
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    Okay so datacenter proxies are cheap but they worked for me?

    honestly weird situation, been testing a datacenter subnet from this budget provider that's like $15 a month. I was fully expecting blocks on the social media stuff i was trying but i got consistent sessions for almost a week. I know everyone says they're instantly detectable and i still think...
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    So many proxy types. ISP is like middle?

    Been reading here a few days after I started the whole affiliate thing, and honestly my brain is fried lol. Everyone keeps saying residential proxies are the best but they cost a ton, then datacenter ones are cheap but you get blocked all the time. Then I saw something called ISP proxies? kinda...
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    Disavow file panic - saw it tank a site last week

    ok so alright so this is gonna be a bit of a rant. Been doing this since like 2016 and back then disavow was pretty much just an emergency button for when you bought obvious crappy links and got hit with a manual action. You saw the message, freaked out, uploaded a list. But now? Whole different...
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    Dedicated IP VPN use cases - is the extra privacy risk even worth it?

    Man I see everyone pushing dedicated IPs on some forums but when you actually look at it you're kind of paying to be more trackable. Sure you get past some captchas and maybe a banking login works better but you're basically putting a permanent name tag on your traffic. I mean a dedicated IP...
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    Double VPN from NordVPN - speed and latency numbers

    Tried out NordVPN's double hop thing for like 2 weeks. Running tests on a gigabit line here in the US. Just a single VPN to Atlanta, got like 650 Mbps down and ping around 45ms. Then I did the double hop US to Canada and it was bad, speed dropped to like 110 Mbps and ping shot up to 180ms...
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    IPv6 proxies with Puppeteer extra stealth actually WORK

    so i was testing for a client scraping project last week and got stuck on ipv4 datacenter stuff always getting flagged like every single time. then i switched to ipv6 residential from a provider i barely ever use and dude, the combo with puppeteer-extra-stealth-plugin is actually pretty crazy...
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    VPN audit results but I'm still confused

    Been looking at all these VPN audit reports lately and honestly the marketing around them feels kinda sketchy. Like every provider now says they have an "independent audit" but when you actually check the pdf they put out sometimes it's just them scanning their servers for malware or whatever...
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    Snkr bots proxy provider advice - seen some sketchy stuff

    hey so ive been running sneaker bots for like 3 years now, testing a bunch of proxy providers. margins are already thin enough without getting screwed over by bad proxies. last drop i tried this new provider i found on a discord, was like 20% cheaper. my success rate plummeted from my usual like...
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    ok so the airport wifi VPN setup is kinda perfect now

    so i posted about travel vpn headaches a while back, trying to watch f1 from germany or whatever. anyway just figured out a dumb simple way that actually works, no weird errors. you know how most airport wifis block vpn ports right? got stuck for like an hour in lax with my usual openvpn config...
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    China VPN reality check: numbers don't lie

    just got back from a 3 month gig outta Shenzhen did a bunch of speed and connection tests on different services cause the marketing claims are just nuts. here's what i actually saw tested 4 big providers over a month. success rate for the first connection was all over the place. provider a had...
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