Proxy for FollowingLike: a beginner's guide
FollowingLike posts and follows across several networks. Adding residential proxies takes minutes; read what those networks allow before switching automation on.
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FollowingLike in plain words: what it does and what it can cost you
In plain English, FollowingLike is a Windows program that signs in to your social accounts and acts for you: posting on a schedule, liking, commenting, following and sending messages. Some of that is harmless and some of it breaks the rules of the networks it supports. Adding a proxy swaps the internet address the program connects from, nothing more. Here's how to tell the two apart before spending anything.
Harmless or risky?
Scheduling your own posts with a network's own tools, or with apps using its official connection, is fine. Automatic following, liking and messaging strangers is where trouble starts: LinkedIn bans bots that send messages or like posts, and TikTok forbids inauthentic commercial behaviour such as spam accounts.
Where the proxy box is
FollowingLike keeps a separate proxy setting for each account inside the program, rather than using your browser's. That's where an address, port, username and password would go. For one personal account on your home internet, though, you normally need no proxy at all.
Check your computer first
FollowingLike runs only on Windows. Its site says Mac users must install a virtual machine first, which is a program that runs Windows inside your Mac, and there is no phone version. Check before paying for a licence you can't use.
What not to do
Don't add accounts that aren't yours, don't buy ready-made accounts to run in it, and don't message other brands' followers in bulk. That last one is spam, and spam is also against the rules for using our proxies.
Quick start in three steps
Nothing to install. This is the whole route, from paying to the first page you load through the proxy.
Buy a small Residential plan
Choose a small bundle, or just the GB (gigabytes of data) you need, and pay. Then, under My Plans → Proxy Configuration in your dashboard, set the country, the protocol, and sticky (one address that stays put) or rotating (a new one each time).
Paste it into the tool
Most tools have a proxy field or a list to paste into, often one proxy per line. Add a single proxy first and run one small task.
Check that it worked
Paste the details into our proxy checker: it shows whether the proxy answers and which IP address sites will see. The IP location lookup then tells you which country that address is in, and if anything looks wrong, the quick fixes further down cover the usual slips. About to log in somewhere? Switch to a sticky session first, so the address stays put.
Our pick for FollowingLike: Residential
FollowingLike handles signed-in tasks on networks like Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube and X. If you use a proxy with it, residential is the type that matches an ordinary household connection, which is where a signed-in account normally connects from. The networks' rules on automated follows and likes apply whatever connection you use, though.
An IP each, exactly the way the tool expects
FollowingLike can hold a different proxy for each account. If you look after two or three accounts of your own, a sticky residential address for each, one that doesn't change mid-session, keeps every one on a steady connection. Separate addresses are about tidiness only; they don't change what a network allows.
Serves every module
Whichever networks you use FollowingLike for, the same residential proxies work for all of them, so you don't need one type for Instagram and another for TikTok or Pinterest. One plan, billed per GB, covers everything you run.
Standard formats, instant setup
Before pasting a proxy into FollowingLike, try it in a browser: open an IP-lookup page through it and check the country is right. Your proxies appear in the dashboard as soon as payment clears, with HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5 both included, so you can test them the same day.
Personas matched to geo
Persona here just means who the account is and where it's based. A bakery in Leeds belongs on a UK address. Pick the proxy country where the account's owner really is; a location that doesn't match the account only causes confusion and extra sign-in checks.
What a proxy won't do here
It won't make a tool acceptable to a site or game that bans automation, and it can't stop them acting on an account the tool runs.
What people use it for
- ▸Scheduling posts across a few networks
- ▸Looking after accounts you own
- ▸Researching public hashtags and trends
- ▸Keeping each account on its own connection
Which proxy type should I pick for FollowingLike?
Residential is the sensible starting point here. Datacenter costs less when a site accepts server addresses; mobile and premium earn their higher price only in the cases described below.
| Type | Choose it when… | From, per GB |
|---|---|---|
| Datacenter | Cost matters most and the site is happy with addresses from server companies. Good for public pages and first experiments. | $2.49 |
| Residential Our pick for FollowingLike | A site turns server addresses away, or you want to see it the way a local visitor does. The address belongs to a home broadband line. | $3.98 |
| Mobile 4G/5G | The service is built around phones, or you want to see it as someone on 4G or 5G would. The address comes from a phone network. | $4.98 |
| Residential Premium | Standard residential keeps being refused on one particular site. Hand-picked home addresses, at a higher price per GB. | $6.99 |
Choosing a country: Pick the country your task needs and keep each job in one country, so what the tool sees stays consistent from run to run. There are 55+ countries, and in major markets some types let you pick a city too. Browse locations
For the longer version, our proxy comparison walks through all four types.
What you need to add a proxy to your software
Wherever you set it up, you type in the same four details from your dashboard: the host (the proxy's address), the port (a number that tells the connection which door to use), a username and a password.
Inside an app, tool or script
Some apps and most automation tools have a proxy box of their own, which keeps the change to that one program. In code, the proxy is usually a single setting.
Two ways to log in to the proxy
- ▸Username and password. The
host:port:user:passdetails that browsers, apps and scripts ask for. - ▸IP whitelist. Add your own IP address to the list in your dashboard and connections from it need no password. Handy where there's nowhere to type one, such as Android's Wi-Fi proxy screen.
Which protocol?
A protocol is the language your device uses to talk to the proxy. Every proxy works over HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; if an app asks for SOCKS5 by name, give it SOCKS5 details, and put HTTP details in an HTTP box.
Common slip-ups, and the quick fix for each
When something feels off on a first try, it's often one of these.
Logging in on a rotating address
Rotating means a new address for every request; sticky means one address kept for 1-30 minutes. Use sticky for anything you sign in to, or the site may log you out halfway through.
A slip in the proxy details
One wrong character in the host, port, username or password and nothing connects. Copy them again from your dashboard and try them in our proxy checker. Using the IP whitelist? Home IP addresses change now and then, so check yours with the IP checker and update the list.
Starting with a big run
Try one task on one proxy first and watch what happens. A mistake in a large run wastes data, and any accounts the tool uses can be limited.
Pages load slowly
Home connections vary in speed. Pick a proxy country nearer to you and try again before changing anything else.
Proxy not working when it arrives? Tell us within 24 hours of delivery and we'll swap it, or refund that part of the order if we can't (see the refund policy). Support answers 24/7 through the contact page.
Is a proxy for FollowingLike allowed?
Using a proxy is legal in most countries (a few restrict them), so the question is what you do through it: stick to public information and your own accounts, at a sensible pace, within the service's terms and the law where you live.
Many sites and games ban bots and automation tools outright, so read the rules of whatever the tool touches before you start. Where automation is forbidden, running it through a proxy is still forbidden.
If personal data is involved, data-protection law applies as well, and no proxy can protect an account from a platform's own decisions.
Keeping the cost down
You pay for data by the GB, never for time, so set the proxy in the one browser or app that needs it and switch it off when you're done.
Start with a small order
Buy a little Residential data first, at $3.98 per GB, and try it where you need it. Top up once it works.
Use it within 30 days
Each order runs for 30 days from payment, and GB you haven't used don't carry over, so buy for the weeks ahead rather than the year.
Match the type to the site
Leave easy sites on datacenter and send only the stubborn ones through residential, mobile or premium. Mixing types keeps the bill small.
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