The worst nightmare for an SMM specialist is waking up to find an entire grid of client Instagram accounts blocked. Days, weeks, or even months of work, spent budgets, and, most frighteningly, your reputation with the client â all of it can be lost overnight.
If you manage multiple accounts, youâre in a constant arms race with the social networksâ anti-fraud systems. They are getting smarter and more aggressive at combating multi-accounting from a single IP address.
Fortunately, there is a âgold standardâ of security that lets you work with dozens of profiles while remaining under the radar. Itâs called mobile proxies.
Why does Instagram block accounts? The logic of anti-fraud systems
To know how to defend yourself, you must understand the enemyâs logic. Instagramâs algorithms analyze not only your actions (likes, follows) but also your "digital fingerprint". A central part of that fingerprint is your IP address.
The primary red flag for Instagram is when multiple accounts (which should belong to different, unrelated people) repeatedly show activity from the same static IP address.
Imagine: ten different âpeopleâ claim to be unique individuals but all live at the same address â and that address is not a residential building but a well-known office complex (a data center). Suspicious, right? Thatâs exactly how Instagram sees ten accounts operating through a standard server proxy. Most data-center IP ranges are well-known and subject to special scrutiny by social networks.
What are mobile proxies and whatâs their advantage?
A mobile proxy is an IP address assigned not to a server in a data center but to a real physical device (a smartphone or a 4G modem) by an actual mobile network operator (for example, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Kcell, etc.).
Their advantage can be summed up in one word: TRUST.
Social networks, including Instagram, inherently trust mobile IP addresses far more than any others. Why?
Because millions of real users access the internet through a limited pool of IP addresses provided by their mobile operator. At any given moment, hundreds or even thousands of ordinary people from a single city can be âbehindâ the same mobile IP. That is normal and expected behavior for a mobile network.
Because of this, Instagram simply cannot block such an IP address. Blocking a single mobile IP could cut off thousands of innocent users from the service. It would be like demolishing an entire apartment block because of one suspicious resident. So they donât do it.
How it works in practice: the SMM specialistâs stack
For maximum safety and to build a long-term reputation, each account uses a combination of two tools:
- An anti-detect browser (Dolphin, Octo Browser, Indigo, etc.): it creates a unique âdigital fingerprintâ for each account (browser, OS, screen resolution, fonts, and so on).
- A mobile proxy: it assigns a trusted IP address from a real mobile operator to that unique fingerprint.
The formula for success is simple: 1 account = 1 profile in an anti-detect browser + 1 mobile proxy.
This combination creates the illusion for Instagram that each of your accounts is a separate, unique person logging in from their own smartphone. Itâs the most reliable method available today.
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