Which proxy should I use?

A proxy decides where your profile appears to be. It is the single most important setting on a profile after the fingerprint, because the address carries a history of its own that no browser can rewrite.

LoginDeck does not sell proxies and does not resell anyone's. You bring your own, from any provider, or you use a phone you already own.

🧭 The four kinds of address#

Type	What it is	Good for	Watch out for
Mobile	A mobile carrier's address, shared by many real phones	The hardest accounts: social platforms, marketplaces, anything with a history of bans	Addresses are shared with strangers, and change on the carrier's schedule. Costly per GB
Residential	A home ISP address, usually rented from someone's connection	Ad accounts, ecommerce, most day-to-day work	Quality varies enormously between providers; some "residential" pools are not
ISP / static residential	An ISP-registered address hosted in a datacentre	Long-lived accounts that need the same address every day	Reads as a home address to most checks, but the range can still be flagged
Datacentre	A server address	Scraping, testing, low-risk work, anything where speed matters more than trust	Easy for sites to identify as hosting. Poor choice for accounts that must look like people

A rough rule: the more a platform punishes multi-accounting, the closer to a real consumer connection your exit needs to be.

You already own the cleanest option

An Android phone with a SIM is a mobile proxy. LoginDeck can turn one into an exit for your profiles, with no proxy bill at all — see Use an Android phone as a mobile proxy. One phone carries one address at a time, so it suits a handful of important accounts rather than a large deck.

🔁 Static or rotating?#

Static (sometimes "sticky") means the same address every session. This is what an account wants: people do not move house between logins. Use static exits for anything you log into repeatedly.
Rotating means the provider hands you a new address periodically, or whenever you ask. Good for scraping and for creating things in volume; bad for a logged-in account, because the account appears to travel.

If your plan gives you a Change IP link (a URL that asks the provider for a new address), save it with the proxy and LoginDeck can call it for you: Change a proxy's IP.

1️⃣ One proxy per profile#

Give each account its own exit. Two accounts on one address is the same link as two accounts in one browser — a site does not have to work hard to notice.

The exception is a genuinely rotating residential plan where every session lands somewhere different anyway. LoginDeck says so when you set a proxy on many profiles at once: every selected profile will share that exit, which is right for a rotating plan and wrong for accounts that must look unrelated.

🆚 A VPN is not a proxy here#

A VPN moves your whole computer onto one address, which means every profile you open shares it — the opposite of what you want. It is also usually an address range that is published as a VPN range, which many sites treat with suspicion, and you cannot give profile A one country and profile B another.

Use per-profile proxies. If you must run a VPN on the machine for other reasons, be aware that the exit the profile reports is still the proxy's; it is the untunnelled traffic (and any profile set to No proxy) that goes out over the VPN.

🔌 Protocols and formats LoginDeck accepts#

Supported types: HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and SOCKS4. A line with no type at the start is read as HTTP, and socks:// is read as SOCKS5.

Every one of these lines is accepted when you paste it into Host in the Add proxy dialog, or into the Import sheet:

192.168.0.1:8000
http://192.168.0.1:8000:myproxy[https://change-my-proxy.com]
socks5://login:password@192.168.0.1:8000
192.168.0.1:8000:login:password
2600:1f1e:aa1:ae00:aeaf:8349:7a4d:65b7:1081:user:pass
socks5://2600:1f1e:aa1:ae00:aeaf:8349:7a4d:65b7:1081:user:pass
user:pass@2600:1f1e:aa1:ae00:aeaf:8349:7a4d:65b7:1081
socks5://user:pass@2600:1f1e:aa1:ae00:aeaf:8349:7a4d:65b7:1081

Add :name at the end of any format to name the proxy.
A Change IP link goes last, in square brackets.
IPv6 works, bare or in [brackets]:port. A :name cannot follow a bare IPv6 address, because it cannot be told apart from the address.

There is no SSH proxy support, and no built-in proxy store.

ℹ️ Good to know#

Choose the exit country before you build the account, not after. LoginDeck matches the profile's language and clock to the exit when you check the proxy in the editor: Timezone and language follow your proxy.
Save proxies you will reuse in the Proxies library rather than typing them per profile. When a password rotates, that is one edit instead of thirty: Add a proxy.
Speed matters less than you think for account work, and a lot for scraping. LoginDeck shows a round-trip time per saved proxy: Check proxies and see where they exit.
A profile with a proxy never falls back to your own address. If the proxy is down, pages fail to load instead — by design.