A compliance contact at an exchange affiliate program told us they auto-flag traffic clusters arriving on known datacenter IP ranges as suspect — and some affiliates get paused for it without ever cheating.
When each proxy type is the right tool —
— Datacenter proxies: fine, cheap, fast for checking a landing page renders right or whether an offer is live in a geo. Just QA work.
— Residential proxies: needed when you're verifying the actual user-facing funnel, KYC flow, or whether an offer fires the right postback for a real-looking visitor.
Reportedly the mistake is QA-ing your funnel from a datacenter IP, seeing it "work," then sending real residential traffic that hits a different geo-gate. Test like your user looks. Watch this.
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