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At Webshare, we want to make sure you are satisfied with our service, so we offer refunds to customers who cancel their subscriptions within 2 days of the original payment transaction, as long as the following conditions are met:
You can find our complete refund policy on our Terms and Conditions page.
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Here at Webshare, we see the global need for costless proxies and the scale of scams and cybersecurity intrusions with such proxies. In light of this, we have allocated resources to provide any web user with a reliable and fully anonymous proxy solution. Take a look at our documentation to learn more about our free offer.
Generally, free proxy servers are regarded as unsafe when sourced from unreliable providers. This sentiment stems from users that use free proxies from untrusted providers, whose main aim is to scam their clients.
It is important to evaluate the trustworthiness of a provider, as free proxies can often be used to collect and sell user data, expose users to malware, or even steal their personal information.
The answer depends on the reliability of a provider, as there are many performance issues, scams, and cybersecurity violations involved with free proxies. Simply put, free proxies are legitimate when provided by a trusted and established company. Additionally, web proxy providers often offer a long list of free proxies, meaning they are probably not looked after properly and are unsafe.
At Webshare, we offer free premium proxies that are limited to 10 IP addresses per account. Thus, our professional team can constantly maintain them for the best performance and security.
It is a web proxy that is available without any cost. A proxy server is an intermediary between a user’s device and the internet. When a user requests access to a specific website address, the request is sent to the proxy server, which then forwards the request to a website.
A proxy uses its own IP address, essentially hiding the actual IP address of a user. In turn, users can access blocked websites, browse anonymously, and hide their web activity.
If you have any Webshare plan – for datacenter, static residential or residential proxies – SOCKS5 protocol is a complementary feature and you can use it for free.
Offering fast speed and high performance, SOCKS5 proxies are best suited for traffic-intensive tasks: video streaming, live calls, gaming, accessing geo restricted content. By offering faster download speeds, these proxies are great when fast pace is more important than data precision.
While SOCKS4 doesn’t allow any authentication methods, SOCKS5 proxy servers do and Webshare SOCKS5 proxy implements secure authentication.
SOCKS is an internet protocol; it stands for Socket Secure and is most often used for heavy traffic tasks, like P2P sharing and streaming. Meanwhile, SOCKS5 is the latest version of the SOCKS protocol. SOCKS5 supports TCP connections and offers enhanced security online.
We offer a number of locations worldwide to suit your proxy usage needs. For a full list of available locations, see our Global Proxy Network page.
Usually, ISPs (Internet service providers) don’t assign static IP addresses to residential IPs as static connections are more pricey and not sustainable for the providers. Rotating residential proxies are more common among ISP proxy providers.
A static residential IP is an actual residential IP address assigned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), which allows you to stay connected to the same IP for a prolonged period of time.
While trustworthy proxy providers generally provide high levels of anonymity, there’s always a risk of being detected by the target website. Websites may find your activities suspicious, trace your real IP address, and block you. Therefore, it’s important to use proxy servers with caution and responsibility at all times.
Like any other type of proxy, a residential proxy is designed to act as a getaway between a user and the internet. By assigning you with a residential IP address, it protects your identity and allows you to collect public web data from any specific location worldwide.
One of the main reasons why people and businesses choose to implement real residential IPs in their web scraping operations is their ability to imitate organic user behavior and successfully bypass various web scraping challenges, such as IP blocks, CAPTHAs, and geo-restrictions.
The following ports are permanently blocked from Webshare Proxy:
By default, your plan will auto-renew at the end of your subscription term. If this auto-renewal fails, you will receive an email with a link to make your renewal payment manually in 48 hours.
If you wish to renew your account manually, you can use the link below:
https://proxy.webshare.io/subscription/customize/checkout?renew=true
Different proxy types have different sharing model:
All of the sharing is optimized to ensure different users do not get same proxies for the same sites.
You can cancel your subscription by switching to Free Plan. Learn more...
When you upgrade, your existing IPs will not change. Instead, you will only receive new proxies.
We assign proxies randomly from over 500 IPv4 /24 proxy subnets. None of the /24 proxy subnets are consecutive.
You can purchase on-demand/periodic proxy list refreshes to get new proxy IPs. Learn more...
On each request, rotating proxy endpoint assigns you a new IP address from your proxy list. Learn more...
By default, all proxy IPs remain the same. You can purchase proxy list refreshes to get new IP addresses. Learn more...
Webshare only accepts card-based payment methods such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover and Diners, China UnionPay, JCB, Cartes Bancaires, and Interac.
You can cancel anytime during your subscription period. If you do not cancel, your account will auto-renew.
No. Instead of limited free trials, we offer forever free plan. Register for an account to get access to the free plan.
We optimize your proxy list such that you will share least amount of traffic towards the same website.
Yes! You can upgrade/downgrade anytime during the month. You will be only charged for the difference. We recommend starting with the free plan and upgrading if you need to.
Webshare offers 10 proxies for up to 1BG/month completely free for an unlimited amount of time. You only need to pay if you wish to unlock features or receive more bandwidth or proxies.
No credit card required. No trial period.
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