{"id":41480,"date":"2026-06-20T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/tested-some-proxy-providers-for-city-level-geotrgeting-and-most-of-them-lied-to-me-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:27:43","slug":"tested-some-proxy-providers-for-city-level-geotrgeting-and-most-of-them-lied-to-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/tested-some-proxy-providers-for-city-level-geotrgeting-and-most-of-them-lied-to-me-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tested Some Proxy Providers For City-level Geotrgeting And Most Of Them Lied To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Just finished a few weeks of testing proxy providers for a project that needs accurate location data. pulling localized pricing, so if the geo is wrong the whole thing is useless.<br \/> Short version: Most of the advertised coverage numbers are pretty meaningless. had requests that allegedly originated from some cities in completely different areas. not like a little bit off, like wrong country level off on a couple of them.<br \/> Across all of the providers I tested, ASN targeting was far more reliable than city targeting. If you need location accuracy that&#8217;s probably where to start rather than trusting city-level claims. <\/p>\n<p>One provider did truly better than the rest on consistency. Happy to chat through what I found if anyone has the same problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Infinity-artist\"> \/u\/Infinity-artist <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1uaq7yg\/tested_some_proxy_providers_for_citylevel\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1uaq7yg\/tested_some_proxy_providers_for_citylevel\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41480 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41480' data-nonce='2305a78bb8' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41480 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41480 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished a few weeks of testing proxy providers for a project that needs accurate location data&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}