Setting Up Proxies on AdsPower: A Complete Guide

By
Khaled Bentoumi
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Updated
November 28, 2024
12 min read

AdsPower is one of the leading antidetect browsers on the market, providing a vast choice of protocols for seamless proxy integration. It also allows users to choose between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as base browsers for their profiles, offering greater flexibility, anonymity, and robust security setup.

Follow this guide and see for yourself. In less than 15 minutes, you’ll know everything about integrating proxies in AdsPower and more!

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

  • Create and manage your proxies;
  • Integrate them into a browser profile;
  • Test your proxies;
  • Verify your browser fingerprint integrity ;
💡 Before jumping right into the guide, you need a few requirements:

  • An AdsPower account, they offer a lifetime free plan perfect for most users.
  • AdsPower installed on your computer. You can easily find the compatible app for your system on the download page, and choose between Windows, macOS (arm & intel), or again Linux.
  • Your proxy credentials (you can quickly create an account at anyIP.io):
    • username/password;
    • proxy server infos (URL or IP + port) ;

With no further ado, let's jump right into the guide!

How to setup a browser with a proxy in AdsPower

Step 1: Create a new browser profile

The first step of our guide is to set up a new profile by clicking on the “+ New profile” button (1)

How to access the profile form in the Adspower application.

Fill out all the essential informations and scroll down to find the proxy setting section (2).

How to access the proxy settings section when creating a profile on Adspower

Step 2: Configure a custom proxy

Adspower proxy settings are simple to integrate and offer a large compatibility.

All the proxy protocols available on the adspower application

Select “Custom” (1) and Choose the protocol (2) you want to use.

AdsPower supports a range of tunneling methods, ensuring secure data transmission, and encryption. You can select the protocol to use between SSH, HTTP(S), or again, a Socks5 proxy.

An example of how to configure a custom proxy on adspower during the profile creation

Once you’ve selected the Proxy type (protocol), AdsPower will display the proxy form.

There is nothing fancy here, only the basic field, which is perfect. Fill out the form with your proxy credentials:

  • Proxy host & proxy port: portal.anyip.io : 1080
  • Proxy username or login: copy/paste your authentication details here
  • Proxy password: copy/paste your password
💡 How to test the proxy

AnyIP.io offers three different protocol, HTTP, SOCKS5 and HTTPS. Depending on the protocol you choose to use and your organization’s network setup, you may need to adapt the proxy configuration.

Once you’ve set up the proxy, you can use the “Check Proxy” button to test the connection

GIF of a proxy authentification on Adspower

If the authentification is successful, you’ll see a confirmation message and:

  • The IP address attributed by the proxy
  • The country you’re located in
  • The region and the city where your IP address is from

AnyIP.io has an excellent success rate and latency that you can live check using our status page.

If Adspower fails to connect to the proxy server, you’ll see a “Connection test failed!” error. In that case, double-check your login credentials and try again.

Connection test failed error during a proxy authentification test

And that’s it, you can save your new profile by clicking on “OK”

‘OK’ button at the bottom to save the profile

A confirmation will pop out, you'll be redirected to the "Profiles" view, and you see your brand new profile ready to use, with an extra layer of privacy granted by the proxy.

Profile UI showing the profile list on Adspower

Step 3: How to use your profile

Open the browser

It's a no-brainer here. You'll see an "Open" button associated with your profile. Click on it to launch the dedicated browser.

‘Open’ button available on the profile list to start the browser
💡 AdsPower launches a new instance each time you open a profile and you get a icon on your dock/toolbar

macOS icons of a browser instance in AdsPower
The number you see match the ID of your profile, this making it easy to spot.

A nice touch from AdsPower is that it displays a recap of your profile when you open it. It will look like this, and you'll quickly see all the information on your profile.

Adspower browser homepage with a quick overview of your profile settings
  1. In the first section, you can find all the information you choose when creating the profile
  2. In the second section, you'll see the browser fingerprint

Single or batch proxy creation

‍We learn how to configure a profile using a custom proxy, but what if you have multiple accounts? AdsPower offers dedicated proxy management to make your life easier.

This UI is especially useful for activities like running multiple advertising campaigns, managing numerous social media accounts, or even scraping data while avoiding detection.

Batch proxy creation allows you to easily manage and assign a proxy to a profile, helping prevent bans, blocks, or account linking by ensuring all accounts operate from different IPs.

Step-by-step guide to accessing the proxy list and configuring a new proxy in AdsPower
  1. Click on “Proxies” on the left menu to open the proxies management
  2. Then click on “Add proxy”  to open the proxy form

If you’re familiar with the previous version Dolphin Anty, you will most likely find few similarities in this form.

Full process of adding bulk proxies on adspower, includes proxy information and test
  1. You can copy/paste here a batch of proxies
  2. After copying/pasting the proxies, you can double-check them on the list
  3. You can quickly test them by clicking on “check proxy”
  4. Once you’re done, click “OK” to save your proxies.
💡 AdsPower allowed formats:
List of compatible proxy format on Adspower

AdsPower is compatible with multiple formats for adding a proxy. Our previous screenshot provides a few examples.

Since at anyIP.io we like to make your life easier. We automatically generate a compatible format for you.

You can copy/paste it on AdsPower without issue.

This is the format anyIP.io uses:

text
portal.anyip.io:1080:USERNAME:PASSWORD

No matter the format, you can specify a rotating link using square brackets, like this:

text
portal.anyip.io:1080:USERNAME:PASSWORD[ROTATING_LINK]

AdsPower allows you to easily add a “remark” to your proxy by adding it at the end of each line, like this:

text
portal.anyip.io:1080:USERNAME:PASSWORD[ROTATING_LINK]{My proxy Name}

You can also specify the protocols you want to use for each proxies:

text
socks5://portal.anyip.io:1080:USERNAME:PASSWORD[ROTATING_LINK]{My proxy Name}

How to manage your proxies

The proxies list view allows you to easily manage all your proxies profiles.

Step-by-step guide to check the proxy connection on the Adspower proxy’s list
  1. You can see all the proxies you’ve configured
  2. You can check the proxies one by one or by checking them all
  3. When you click on the tree dot button associated with a proxy, you'll have the option to update or delete this proxy.

Browser profile management

The browser profile management is a great solution. It gives users full control of the browser's settings. Plus, it allows you to manage multiple online accounts securely by isolating cookies, IPs, and histories. It's perfect for separating tasks, preventing cross-account issues, and supporting automation.

Basic profile configuration

The creation form can be slightly intimidating, but fear no more as we will explain everything!

Profile creation form with field to specify basic information such as name, group, browser or proxy
  1. Lets start with the name. To easily find your profile, for this example we named it ”anyIP.io - Canada”
Enter profile name in the creation form
  1. Also to help you manage your different profiles, you can create groups:
Group field for new profile setup in AdsPower
  1. Again to help you organise your profiles, you can add tags to them:
Field to specify tags when creating a new browser profile
  1. I'm a big fan of GoLogin but a great feature that I like on AdsPower, is the option to select the browser you want to use:
Browser selection in AdsPower profile setup
💡 You can select the version of each browser you want to use:
Dropdown menu displaying all the SunBrowser’s available versions
Dropdown menu showing all available versions of FlowerBrowser

AdsPower will give you the option to download the version very easily

  1. Choose the OS and User agent
All the operating system available to create a browser profile
💡 Pro tips:

  • For better performance, you should always select the same OS as your computer OS;
  • Your User Agent must match the browser you want to use;
  1. The proxy settings: Now that you know how to create bulk proxies, you can select them directly from there without having to create a custom proxy.

Edit your profile

To edit or update your profile you can clic on the triple dot button associate to your profile.

Contextual menu to get access to all profile option like edit or delete

From there, you’ll be able to quickly edit or delete the profile or simply update your proxy information.

Control the Browser fingerprint

One of the main reasons to use an antidetect browser is to trick the website you want to visit.

To do so, the anti-browser generates a random browser fingerprint. And, thanks to a few useful shortcuts added by Adspower, you can easily control this fingerprint.

Click on the "BrowserScan" link or visit direct https://www.browserscan.net/ to open the online scan.

Result from Browserscan after a fingerprint authenticity check.

Manage your AdsPowser browser profiles through the API

As we told you earlier, AdsPower is as simple as powerful to use and a great antidetect browser.

Adspower warning message to upgrade account to use the AP

Unfortunately, if you want access to all the endpoints they offer, you'll have to subscribe to a custom plan. (Don't worry; the free plan is free for a lifetime and can suit most use cases 😉.)

The paid version comes with a lot of benefits and premium features, such as:

  • Enhance profile management options;
  • Better automation tools;
  • A deep control of your team members;

However, one main reason you could upgrade is the permission to use the API, which can be very useful if you want to control AdsPower through your scripts.

Have a look at the official documentation online.

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Our 24/7 support team will be available to answer all your questions and help you configure your proxy.

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Khaled Bentoumi

Khaled is a software engineer. He’s been involved in many startups of different sizes. Previously, he founded Data to Page, an AI Programmatic SEO startup. He now handles all the marketing at anyIP.

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Khaled is a software engineer. He’s been involved in many startups of different sizes. Previously, he founded Data to Page, an AI Programmatic SEO startup. He now handles all the marketing at anyIP.

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