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Why Is It Essential to Choose the Right Purpose for Your Proxy?

Learn how the checkout Purpose helps route your order and how to select the closest purpose for your intended use.

Written by Alex Krasnov

Selecting the closest available Purpose in checkout helps us route your order for its intended use. It does not verify compatibility with a third-party website or guarantee that a platform will accept every IP or account.

Choose the closest purpose

  1. Select the proxy product and package that fit your task.

  2. In Purpose, choose the platform or use case that most closely matches what you plan to do.

  3. If you are collecting public data, choose a scraping purpose when the selected package offers one.

Checkout shows only the purposes supported by the package you selected. If you cannot find a purpose, choose the closest available option or select a different compatible product before ordering.

What choosing a purpose does

  • It records your intended use and helps us route the order correctly.

  • It helps support understand your use case if you need help with your package.

  • It does not promise a particular outcome, avoid blocks or detection, or override a third-party platform’s rules.

For public data collection

Use PrivateProxy only for information that is publicly available and legally accessible. You are responsible for ensuring that your use complies with applicable law and the target platform’s Terms of Service. We do not support access to private, gated, paid, or protected data, or bypassing a platform’s security controls or rate limits. Read our Responsible Use & Ethical Use Policy for the full policy.

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