Use Case

Residential Proxies for Content Moderation

Power trust & safety operations across user-generated content, ads, and listings. Built for moderation, T&S, and platform-integrity teams scanning the open web.

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195+Countries
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<500msAvg Response

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The Challenge

Why Content Moderation needs residential proxies

Bad Actors Cloak Content by Geo

Harmful content (scams, hate speech, illegal listings, CSAM-adjacent material) is often served selectively based on visitor geography. Comprehensive detection requires residential IPs in each target market.

Coordinated Networks Span Platforms

Modern content abuse spans social, marketplaces, comment sections, and link aggregators. Reliable cross-platform monitoring needs uniform infrastructure across all of them.

Volume and Velocity

Major platforms see billions of UGC posts per day. Even sampling at 1% requires sustained, high-cadence ingestion across many platforms simultaneously.

Operator Safety

Moderation work exposes ops to harmful content. Workflows need clean infrastructure — residential proxies provide one OPSEC layer alongside content filtering and counselor access.

Solutions

How Shifter powers Content Moderation

Real-world applications of residential proxies in Content Moderation.

UGC & Marketplace Listing Moderation

Scan user-generated posts, listings, and reviews across marketplaces, social, and platform-owned surfaces for policy violations. Power T&S workflows with residential-grade visibility.

Ad Compliance & Brand Safety

Verify that ad creative, landing pages, and sponsored content comply with platform policy and brand safety. Catch deceptive ads, illegal product listings, and brand-unsafe placements.

Hate Speech & Harassment Monitoring

Aggregate public signals across forums, social, and comment sections in target languages and regions. Power proactive detection workflows for platform integrity and safety teams.

Counterfeit & Illegal Listings

Detect counterfeit, illegal, or restricted-product listings across marketplaces and DTC sites. Geo-distributed coverage catches region-specific violations.

Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior

Track network-level signals (clusters of new accounts, identical content across geos, timing anomalies) to surface coordinated abuse campaigns for T&S teams.

Geo-Specific Policy Enforcement

Verify region-specific content policies (age gates, regulated products, country-specific takedowns) actually enforce in target markets.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Fixed monthly plans with included bandwidth. No hidden fees. Scale as your usage grows.

Starter40% OFF
$3.50/GB
$2.10/GB
$35$21/month·10 GB

What's included

  • 10 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
Basic40% OFF
$3.00/GB
$1.80/GB
$75$45/month·25 GB

What's included

  • 25 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
BusinessPopular40% OFF
$2.50/GB
$1.50/GB
$249$149/month·100 GB

What's included

  • 100 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
Growth40% OFF
$2.00/GB
$1.20/GB
$499$299/month·250 GB

What's included

  • 250 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City-level targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
FAQ

Frequently asked FAQ questions

Common questions about proxies for Content Moderation.

Detection of CSAM-adjacent material on the open web is a legitimate T&S use case. CSAM material itself must be reported to NCMEC (US) or equivalent authorities in your jurisdiction — never collected or stored. Workflows need careful scoping with legal counsel.

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