How to know if proxy is to blame

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Hey I am newbie working on my first project. I have bought residential ISP proxy and trying to create account on few social media (instagram, x, tiktok).I am using adspower with fingerprinting. I get hit by captcha constantly on google. Cant create any account since even proton mail hit me with abuse detection. Ipfither shows 75% - timezone mismatch for some reason (adspower seems to be setup correctly to show my IP timezone) and blacklisted on two website (i have red it is not that big of an issue for social media since they are not caring about public blacklists).

It all appears my proxy provider is to blame (well, I am to blame actually for buying bad proxy...), but since I am new in this I just want to double check - is there anything I am doing wrong here?
 
Hey I am newbie working on my first project. I have bought residential ISP proxy and trying to create account on few social media (instagram, x, tiktok).I am using adspower with fingerprinting. I get hit by captcha constantly on google. Cant create any account since even proton mail hit me with abuse detection. Ipfither shows 75% - timezone mismatch for some reason (adspower seems to be setup correctly to show my IP timezone) and blacklisted on two website (i have red it is not that big of an issue for social media since they are not caring about public blacklists).

It all appears my proxy provider is to blame (well, I am to blame actually for buying bad proxy...), but since I am new in this I just want to double check - is there anything I am doing wrong here?
timezone mismatch is a issue with VPN too.
You should be able to fix that.
 
You should use Static Residential proxy for the account creation and you can manage using dedicated private proxies as well.

Try to create account using real browser with clean profile using that and see.

If not work then try some reputable browser like incogniton,gologin,adspower etc.

But initially account creation is hurdle but after that if you warm them up it will work fine for long period of time.
 
when having wrong spoofing need to blame proxy providers, an example are spam proxies which get profile limit with the spam record.
 
You should use Static Residential proxy for the account creation and you can manage using dedicated private proxies as well.

Try to create account using real browser with clean profile using that and see.

If not work then try some reputable browser like incogniton,gologin,adspower etc.

But initially account creation is hurdle but after that if you warm them up it will work fine for long period of time.
Thank you very much. So just to clarify, when i create account I do that with Static Residential -> then switch to ISP/Mobile for warmup and further posting? Am I correct?

Out of curiosity - why is that? Why acc creation is easier on static residential?
 
I’d check the timezone mismatch first. I’ve had some proxies act weird like this before, especially when the IP location and timezone don’t match. Could be worth testing with a different proxy just to rule it out.
 
Maybe you can test first with another clean IP/provider. If that behaves normally, that's a good indication that the original proxy was the problem.
 
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