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Acceptable use policy

An acceptable use policy (AUP) is the contractual list of what a proxy network may and may not be used for: typically permitted public data collection, verification and testing, and forbidden attacks, fraud, spam, unauthorized access, harvesting of personal data without a legal basis and anything illegal where the customer or the target operates. Enforcement protects the people behind residential exits, the reputation of the pool and, ultimately, every other customer's success rate.

1 min read Also called AUP, fair use Updated

Acceptable use policy All terms

What is usually forbidden#

  • Denial-of-service, credential stuffing, brute force, vulnerability scanning of third parties.
  • Fraud: payment fraud, fake accounts at scale, ad-click fraud, coupon and referral abuse.
  • Spam and unsolicited messaging; outbound mail (port 25) is blocked outright.
  • Access to systems without authorization, and any use illegal in the customer's or the target's jurisdiction.

What enforcement looks like#

Abuse reports are investigated; violating accounts lose access without refund of consumed service; providers cooperate with authorities where the law requires. Serious providers publish the policy and apply it, because a pool full of abusers is worthless to everyone.

How it works at ProxShift#

ProxShift publishes its acceptable use policy, enforces it on all four networks, blocks port 25 everywhere and ends accounts that breach it; the policy is part of the terms every account accepts.

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