If you’re running multiple accounts on the same platform - whether for social media, e-commerce, ad platforms, classified sites, or web automation - your biggest enemy is linkability.
Websites don’t just look at your username. They track dozens of attributes, including:
- IP address
- browser fingerprint
- behavioral patterns
- device metadata
- network characteristics
To separate these identities properly, you need to isolate every layer that could betray you. A proxy is one of the core pieces of this isolation.
What Is a Proxy (in the Multi-Accounting Context)?
A proxy is a remote server that sits between your device and the website you’re connecting to. When you load a page, the website doesn’t see your IP, instead it sees the proxy’s IP.
For multi-accounting, this means:
- Account A can appear to come from London
- Account B from Paris
- Account C from New York
- …even though all three are running on the same physical machine
Proxies ensure accounts do not share the same network identity. Without this, platforms will instantly link and suspend them.
Why Proxies Are Critical for Multi-Accounting
Modern platforms track IP data aggressively. If multiple accounts:
- log in from the same IP
- switch IPs too frequently
- rotate through known datacenter IPs
- or share the same subnet
…they are flagged and linked.
Proxies allow you to:
- assign each account a unique network identity
- keep long-term accounts “living” in consistent locations
- avoid mass bans due to IP overlap
- appear like real human users with stable home connections
This is why proxies are foundational for:
- e-commerce store operations
- social media account farming
- ad verification
- classified ads
- sneaker botting
- affiliate marketing
- scraping with multiple sessions
And this is exactly where Kameleo’s virtual browser profiles and custom fingerprints integrate perfectly with proxies: fingerprint separates the device; proxy separates the network.
Proxy vs. VPN - Why VPNs Are Not Enough
Many users think a VPN and a proxy are similar. Not in multi-accounting.
VPN limitations for multi-accounting:
- You can only run one VPN per device
- All your browsers share the same public IP
- VPN IPs are overused, often already flagged
- High risk of instant mass bans
- Platforms categorize VPN endpoints as high-risk traffic
- No granular control per-profile
Proxies, on the other hand:
- Work per browser profile
- Can run unlimited parallel identities
- Give you location-level granularity
- Are less suspicious when using real residential IPs
- Integrate natively inside Kameleo’s profile manager
This is why VPNs are great for privacy, but terrible for running multiple accounts.
Proxy Types
Residential proxies (recommended)
Residential proxies use IP addresses assigned by real Internet Service Providers. Because they appear as genuine home connections, they are far more difficult for websites to detect or block. This makes them ideal for long-term accounts, warm-up processes, and platforms with strict anti-bot systems. They tend to be slower than datacenter proxies and are generally more expensive, but for serious multi-accounting these are usually the most reliable and natural-looking option.
Mobile Proxies
Mobile proxies route traffic through genuine 3G, 4G, or 5G carrier networks. These IPs rotate organically and are shared by large numbers of real mobile users, making them almost impossible for platforms to blacklist without collateral damage. As a result, they are the gold standard for highly sensitive platforms like Meta, TikTok, or Google Ads. Their main drawbacks are cost and limited control over rotation timing, since the mobile carrier dictates IP changes.
Datacenter Proxies
Datacenter proxies originate from hosting providers and cloud infrastructure rather than household connections. They are extremely fast and inexpensive, which makes them appealing for low-risk scraping or high-volume tasks. However, they are also the easiest for websites to detect because the IP ranges are publicly known and heavily used by bots. This makes them unsuitable for valuable accounts or platforms with strict risk scoring. Datacenter proxies are best when speed matters more than stealth. If you’re handling valuable accounts or strict platforms, avoid datacenter proxies.
How Websites Link Accounts Without Proxies
Even if you use perfect fingerprints, if all your profiles share the same IP, you will still get flagged. Platforms use IP-level grouping such as:
- IP clustering
- ASN analysis
- subnet grouping
- proxy/VPN endpoint databases
- residential vs datacenter classification
- IP reputation services
So even if your fingerprint is unique, the accounts get tied together through their network identity. This is why proxies are non-negotiable for multi-accounting.
Proxies + Kameleo = True Identity Separation
Kameleo creates realistic, native browser profiles with:
- unique fingerprints
- independent storage
- isolated sessions
- natural behavior
When you add a proxy to each profile, you get full-stack identity isolation:
- different device
- different environment
- different network
- different browser history
- different local storage
- different behavior and timing
This is the closest thing to running “multiple real humans” on a single machine.
Connecting Proxies in Kameleo
Kameleo works with any proxy provider. You can assign a different proxy to every browser profile with a single setting. Once the proxy is paired with the profile, the identity becomes fully isolated.
