Google Ad's for proxy website being rejected

We're trying to run Google Ads for a residential proxy website but the ads will not get approved for 'enabling dishonest behaviour'. There are tons of companies running proxy ads but ours keep getting rejected. Anyone have experience with this?

Yeah, this is quite typical and a lot of the time not to do with the actual ad itself, rather just potentially your account trust being potentially low which can be due to various factors

rsakeys said:

Yeah, this is quite typical and a lot of the time not to do with the actual ad itself, rather just potentially your account trust being potentially low which can be due to various factors

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Even tried with a higher quality account we purchased and same issue.

We usually use aged accounts, very safe wording, and a clean landing page, but even small hints of scraping, unblocking, or bypassing still trigger auto-rejections.

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Even tried with a higher quality account we purchased and same issue.

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I'd also like to ask what is your definition of high quality account, because the term is loosely thrown around a lot but can be different definitions to people

For example, although I have not looked in to Googles, this is more for Twitter, the equivalent to me would be a twitter gold account with $1k+ prior ad-spend, which is usually on the upper-end of prices when it comes to twitter ad accounts

Cloakers is also just as important as @tptrader mentioned, but should be base level requirement, if your not doing that I'd question all else too, high quality proxies, good payment methods, anti-fingerprinting etc

End of the day, if other people are running, its still possible to run, just will be a trial and error game till you can narrow down what exactly is causing rejection

Google’s extremely sensitive to proxy-related wording now, so even fully legit services get hit with the “enabling dishonest behavior” flag. The reason other companies slip through is usually because their copy and landing pages are heavily sanitized — no mentions of scraping, bypassing, bots, anonymity, or anything that implies evasion. They frame everything around compliant use-cases like market research, SEO monitoring, brand protection, and web performance. Your ads and landing page both need to follow that style.

liyong601c said:

Google’s extremely sensitive to proxy-related wording now, so even fully legit services get hit with the “enabling dishonest behavior” flag. The reason other companies slip through is usually because their copy and landing pages are heavily sanitized — no mentions of scraping, bypassing, bots, anonymity, or anything that implies evasion. They frame everything around compliant use-cases like market research, SEO monitoring, brand protection, and web performance. Your ads and landing page both need to follow that style.

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I think you hit the nail on the head here. This seems to be the issue. We will be making some changes to our home page and all pre-auth pages and trying again.