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Ad Verification Proxies that don't get blocked.

Ad fraud and cloaking show different creatives to different geos and devices, so you can't verify from the office IP. Confirm your ads render correctly and land on the right page in each market and device class — residential for web placements, mobile for in-app.

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Why you need proxies

Without proxies, ad verification stalls fast.

Ad fraud and cloaking show different creatives to different geos and devices, so you can't verify from the office IP.

See ads as a local does

Residential IPs in the exact target geo render the real placement a user sees — not the safe version ad networks show known verifiers.

Catch ad fraud

Spot domain spoofing, hidden stacked ads, and bot-only inventory by checking placements from clean residential IPs at scale.

Verify geo-targeting

Confirm a campaign bought for Germany actually serves in Germany — and isn't leaking impressions to the wrong country.

Check landing pages

Follow the click through to the landing page from each geo to catch redirects, malware, and non-compliant offers.

Which proxy type

The right proxy type for ad verification.

Residential by geo for web ads; pair mobile for mobile-placement checks.

Recommended
Residential

For ~95% of scraping jobs.

From $2.25/GB at scale

  • E-commerce, real estate, news, directories
  • SERP scraping (Google, Bing) with city targeting
  • Job boards, listings, regulatory filings
  • Sub-second response, lower cost
See residential plans
For hardest targets
Mobile

When residential gets flagged.

From $4.25/GB at scale

  • Social platforms (IG, TikTok, FB)
  • Sneaker, ticket, drop platforms
  • CGNAT-protected - near unblockable
  • Costs more per GB; use selectively
See mobile plans
Not recommended
Datacenter

Cheap, but blocked on sight.

Not sold by us

  • Reputable platforms block on sight
  • Cloudflare flags entire ASNs
  • Failure rate kills your ROI
  • OK only for static / unprotected APIs
Not available here
In production

What ad verification looks like in production.

Confirm your ads render correctly and land on the right page in each market and device class — residential for web placements, mobile for in-app.

bash · curl with rotating proxy
# Rotating residential, US-targeted - fresh IP per request
curl -x "http://login:country-us@ip.simplynode.io:9003" \
     "https://target.example.com/page-1"

# Sticky session - same IP for paginated scrape (30-min TTL)
for page in {1..50}; do
  curl -x "http://login:country-us-session-abc-ttl-1800@ip.simplynode.io:9003" \
       "https://target.example.com/listings?page=$page"
done
python · requests + sessions
import requests, time, hashlib

# Routing params live in the password; username is your dashboard login
PROXY = "http://login:country-us@ip.simplynode.io:9003"
PROXIES = {"http": PROXY, "https": PROXY}

def scrape_with_retry(url, retries=3):
    for attempt in range(retries):
        try:
            r = requests.get(url, proxies=PROXIES, timeout=10)
            if r.status_code == 200:
                return r.text
        except requests.RequestException:
            time.sleep(2 ** attempt)  # exponential backoff
    return None

# 500K requests/day pattern - sessions for paginated workloads (30-min sticky)
def scrape_listing(base_url, total_pages):
    session_id = hashlib.md5(base_url.encode()).hexdigest()[:8]
    sticky_proxy = f"http://login:country-us-session-{session_id}-ttl-1800@ip.simplynode.io:9003"
    for p in range(1, total_pages + 1):
        html = scrape_with_retry(f"{base_url}?page={p}")
        parse_and_store(html)
python · scrapy settings.py
# settings.py - drop in to enable SimplyNode rotating residential
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    "scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 110,
}

# Routing params (country, session, ttl, asn) live in the password field
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://login:country-us@ip.simplynode.io:9003"
HTTP_PROXY  = HTTPS_PROXY

# Concurrent requests - bump up since we have unlimited concurrency
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS = 64
CONCURRENT_REQUESTS_PER_DOMAIN = 16
DOWNLOAD_DELAY = 0  # residential IPs handle rate without throttle
RETRY_TIMES = 3
RETRY_HTTP_CODES = [429, 500, 502, 503, 504]

# In your spider:
# yield scrapy.Request(url, meta={"proxy": HTTPS_PROXY})
node · playwright with proxy auth
import { chromium } from 'playwright';

// Sticky session - same residential IP across the whole browser lifetime
const sessionId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 10);

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  proxy: {
    server: 'http://ip.simplynode.io:9003',
    username: 'login',
    password: `country-us-session-${sessionId}-ttl-1800`
  }
});

const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://target.example.com/login');
// Login flow + paginated scrape, all from the same residential IP
Real customer

Ad-tech firm · 40 geos · 98% success.

01
Case study · live for 8+ months

Verifying placements across 40 countries for 200 advertisers.

An ad-verification platform uses SimplyNode residential proxies with city targeting to load advertiser campaigns from 40 countries every hour, screenshotting placements and flagging fraud, geo-leaks, and brand-safety violations automatically.

40
Countries
200
Advertisers
98%
Success rate
Common pitfalls

Four mistakes that miss ad fraud.

Verify wrong and you sign off on campaigns that are quietly losing money. These are the failures we see most.

Pitfall 01

Verifying from one location

Checking a global campaign from one office IP confirms one city's delivery and misses geo-leaks everywhere else.

Fix: set -country-de, -city-saopaulo etc. per geo you bought.

Pitfall 02

Using datacenter IPs

Ad networks flag datacenter ranges and show them a clean decoy ad, so fraud and brand-safety issues never appear.

Fix: use residential — the ad server treats it as a real impression.

Pitfall 03

One IP for the whole sweep

Hammering an ad server from a single IP gets rate-limited and starts returning blanks instead of live creatives.

Fix: use rotating mode (default) — a fresh IP per check.

Pitfall 04

Skipping mobile placements

In-app and mobile-web inventory renders differently; desktop-only checks miss half the campaign.

Fix: verify mobile placements through mobile proxies alongside residential.

Pricing

Ad Verification pricing.

Pay per GB from $2.25/GB at scale, with loyalty discounts on top. No use-case surcharge; the same product serves every workflow.

From $4/GB at the starter tier, drops to $2.25/GB at 500-1000 GB.

Most verification teams sit in the 100-500 GB/month range (creatives are heavy) — that's $2.50-$3/GB effective, with loyalty discount on top once you cross $100/month.

See full pricing →
FAQ · Ad verification

Common ad verification questions.

Residential proxies. Residential by geo for web ads; pair mobile for mobile-placement checks.

Ad fraud and cloaking show different creatives to different geos and devices, so you can't verify from the office IP.

Point your client at our gateway over HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5, authenticate with username:password or a whitelisted IP, and choose residential IPs. No SDK or agent.

Pay-as-you-go from $2.25/GB at scale, loyalty discounts on top, bandwidth never expires.

Yes — buy 1 GB, run your workflow, and check the success rate before committing volume.

Start ad verification on the right IPs.

Buy 1 GB, run ad verification on your real target, and watch the success rate. Bandwidth never expires.