HTTP Proxies for Ad Verification
Route ad-verification checks through HTTP/HTTPS proxies and see creatives, landing pages, and placements exactly as real users do in any market. Detect misplacement, geo-fraud, and cloaked redirects from the outside.
HTTP/HTTPS Features
Why HTTP/HTTPS proxies fit ad verification
Ad servers, demand-side platforms, and publisher pages all speak HTTP/HTTPS, so a standard HTTP proxy slots straight into your verification stack with no protocol gymnastics. Because ad networks tailor creatives by IP geography, ASN reputation, and device profile, routing each check through a different exit lets you confirm that the right ad served in the right place. You can inspect full request and response headers, follow redirect chains, and capture the final landing URL. That visibility is exactly what catches misplaced inventory, domain spoofing, and geo-fraud.
Which pool to use and why
Use the Residential pool for the bulk of verification work: 100M+ IPs across 166 core countries let you confirm placements as a genuine consumer in each target market, which matters because networks fingerprint datacenter ranges. For mobile-specific campaigns, the Mobile pool spans 115 countries and presents carrier-grade IPs that match how the ad was actually targeted. Datacenter, Shared-ISP, and IPv6 pools are US-only; reach for Datacenter when you are checking high volumes of US placements where speed and cost outweigh the need for residential trust.
Setup: host:port and credentials
Every pool is reachable over HTTP/HTTPS through a single host:port endpoint with user:pass authentication, so any verification tool, headless browser, or custom script that understands HTTP proxies works without modification. Pick rotating sessions to draw a fresh IP per request when you want broad geographic coverage and high placement diversity. Choose sticky sessions, configurable from one minute up to two hours, when a verification flow needs to hold one identity across a multi-step landing page or login wall. The platform supports up to 50,000 concurrent connections for large verification sweeps.
Best practices
Match the exit geography to each campaign's target so you verify the creative the audience actually receives, not a fallback ad. Send realistic browser headers, including a current User-Agent and Accept-Language that align with the chosen country, since ad logic keys off these signals. Use sticky sessions for multi-hop landing-page checks and rotating sessions for breadth across many placements. Capture and log full redirect chains and final URLs so you have evidence when flagging fraud. Pace requests to mirror human browsing rather than hammering a single publisher.
Common pitfalls
The biggest mistake is verifying from the wrong geography, then reporting a placement as missing when the network simply served a different ad for your exit country. Reusing one rotating IP for a multi-step funnel breaks the session and corrupts the result, so use sticky sessions there. Mismatched headers, such as a US English User-Agent paired with a German exit, can trigger atypical ad logic and skew findings. Finally, ignoring redirect chains hides cloaking and arbitrage; always follow every hop to the true landing page before judging the placement.
Pricing and scaling
Billing is pay-as-you-go per GB, so verification spend tracks actual traffic. Residential-backed plans start at $2.98/GB and scale down to $1/GB at volume, with Residential Lite running $0.30/GB down to $0.16/GB for high-throughput checks. US Datacenter starts at $0.70/GB and drops to $0.16/GB, the cheapest entry point at $0.16/GB. The Mobile pool runs from $2.98/GB down to $1.20/GB for carrier-grade verification. With 50,000 concurrent connections available, you can scale from spot-checks to continuous, multi-region monitoring without re-architecting.
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