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Alright I gotta get this out. Spent the last like 6 months religiously using Voluum for everything. Love the interface, their reporting is solid, made sense with my traffic sources. But man the cost? It creeps up on you. I was hitting that $199 tier easy then adding on data just crushed it. Was...

hey guys this is all super confusing. I'm seeing like link sellers on fiverr selling 50 backlinks for $10. Then there are other sites where a single link costs $500. And then people in between. Everyone calls everything 'premium' or 'high authority'. How are you supposed to know? If the price is...

alright, who's actually running successful ad verification campaigns without getting IP banned after the second verification? I'm trying to check my own client's display ads across different geos and networks, using a few of the big-name residential proxy providers. Setup is simple - headless...

Alright I gotta vent. Every time I see one of those comparison blog posts about residential proxy cost per GB I want to scream. They list 20 providers with a clean little table like it means anything. You see the $8/GB provider and think 'oh nice that's cheap'. Then you run 10GB through it and...

ugh okay so i'm trying to set up a mobile proxy setup for some tiktok stuff and the prices are insane. Like $50+ per GB from some of the big names. Datacenter is like $2 per GB residential maybe $15 but mobile just skyrockets. I remember when backconnect was cheaper and worked but now it's all...

yo. i see a lot of chatter about insurance and solar but not enough solid numbers on home services. hvac, plumbing, roofing. i've been running some local lead gen for 5 years. my avg cpl on a solid hvac offer is $45-$65, conv rate around 3-4% on cold fb traffic. network payout is usually...

Just spent like 3 days switching from voluum to redtrack and the api calls are way faster. like 200ms versus 800ms for event logging. their docs are less confusing too. fwiw I do like 50k events a day so latency totally matters. I know everyone says voluum is the king but honestly they seem...

Ok seriously need to vent for a sec. Keep seeing the same advice on here 'bro just cut out the network go direct to advertiser save the middleman'. Yeah right. Just got off a call where an advertiser ghosted me for 45 days after a campaign hit 12k in revenue, now they're saying the leads were...

so I posted last month about how split tunneling was messing up my connection. got a bunch of replies saying just use wireguard its faster. but im traveling in southeast asia right now and wireguard just straight up fails on some networks here like ports blocked or something. had to switch to...

Okay so been messing with split tunneling on ProtonVPN for a week and I think I broke something. Setup: routing torrent client through VPN tunnel, browser direct. Simple right? My torrent speeds tanked from like 12 MB/s down to barely 2. Checked the logs and there's constant timeouts on the...

just checked my Taboola account from like 4 years ago, was running a weight loss SOI offer, cpc was like 12 cents, CR steady at 4.5-5 percent. Profit margins were crazy. Now? Same geo, similar landing page, cpc is like 35 cents, conversion rate maybe 1.8 percent on a good day. Feels like they...

okay so my self-hosted wireguard setup on a vps has been running smooth for like 6 months. Cheap digital ocean droplet, my own keys, all good. But I just realized something dumb. I was checking the system logs on the server for an unrelated issue and saw a ton of connection entries with...

ngl hey need some brainpower here. So im running adult offers on native pop traffic, been tracking for like 3 weeks. My main source is plugrush, some exoclick but not much. The weird part is my ctr is like 1.8-2% which feels decent but conv rate is all over the place. One day i get like 0.07%...

Yo remember I posted last month about that link building agency taking my 2k and vanishing? Well I bounced back, got a couple offers humming at $50-70 profit/day. Figured scaling was just upping the budget, right? Nope. Went from $200 spend to $400 and conv completely tanked. Not gradual, like...

Just got burned. Hard. Wanted to share so others dont fall for it. Saw an agency with case studies showing 30% dr boost in 3 months for finance sites. They promised manual outreach, placement on sites they control, white hat stuff. Paid upfront $2k retainer which i now know was dumb but they...

Just got my weekly report from one of the mid-tier networks. Conv rates dropped 30% from last week. No changes on my end, traffic source says performance same. Feeling like they're playing with the numbers. ICYMI I always run a small % of traffic to a tracker with its own pixel just to compare...

So I did a bunch of tests last week, same gear, same server spot, just changing protocols. Obviously WireGuard crushed it. Download speeds were like 95% of my usual, OpenVPN was around 65% and IKEv2 like 75%. But the upload speeds were weird, WireGuard still fastest but surprisingly OpenVPN beat...

Alright so I'm at my wits end here. Spent the last month building a custom proxy pool for a scraping project, nothing crazy just product data. Mix of residential IPs from a couple providers and some datacenter ones for speed. Scripts are clean, using puppeteer-extra with stealth plugin, random...

so been doing these one-off cps stuff for a bit like dropshipping offers and all that but then a buddy shows me his backend for a project management tool hes been pushing - guy's making 45 bucks a month recurring from like 12 ppl he sent over a year ago. that's crazy, like free money now. I know...

Alright I'm about to bounce for a month in SEA and EU, need solid geo-unblocking for work and shows. My go-to Express worked fine at home but died last trip in Japan - Netflix US just wouldn't load after day 3. So looking at maybe Surfshark or Proton for this run. What I really need are real...