Wondering why you actually need a proxy? 😱
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A proxy is a tool that, among other things, lets you hide your own IP and show a different one (the proxy IP) to whoever is watching your connection — in this case, the bookmakers.
You mainly need a proxy so that you can:
- Connect from anywhere in the 🌎 world, from your own computer or from a rented server (for example, Contabo).
- Run 👥 several profiles or clients from a single computer, each one behind its own IP address rather than all of them sharing the one your connection uses.
- Stop a ⛔ limitation on one account from dragging the rest down with it — no proxy prevents an operator from limiting an account in the first place.
Bear in mind that bookmakers require bets to be placed from an IP address in the country their licence covers: with UKGC-licensed operators, that means a UK IP.
Your IP address is a bit like your virtual home address: it identifies you. Bookmakers use it to tie the place where you live, or where you are connecting from, to your betting account. If different users of the same bookmaker connect from the same IP, either at the same time or one after another, the moment one of them is limited the rest will be too.
The bookmaker, trying to cap its own losses, assumes that if both users work from the same IP they may be different identities run by a single person, or several people following a similar strategy.
That is the other reason why each client, profile or user should have its own IP. BetOven offers three ways of dealing with it.
Setting up your proxy
1. You can run BetOven in No Proxy mode when you connect from “an IP in the right country” (home broadband, 4G mobile and so on).
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Use this mode when you only have one profile connected and your IP is clean (it has not been used with those bookies before).
This is the connection we recommend, since a residential or mobile IP does not stand out. If you are not sure whether you have used this IP with certain bookies before, I would suggest restarting your router and checking that the IP is dynamic and has changed.
Checking it is as easy as searching Google for “what is my IP?”. Plenty of sites will give you that information.
2. You can use the Automatic Proxy that BetOven provides: it uses up extra points, but it manages the IPs for you.
The main advantage of this mode is how simple it is. You don’t have to hunt for a proxy IP provider that works with every bookie, and if one of them blocks your IP you are not left writing to their support team and waiting for a fix… which is, in the end, one more thing to go wrong.
The automatic proxy costs 3 points for every hour that BetOven spends working.
3. We can use a Manual Proxy when we already have one from an outside proxy provider. It has to be in the same country as your accounts and it has to work with the bookies. BET365 is usually the strictest of them all about proxy IPs.
You will need the following details from your provider in order to connect your manual proxy:
Once you have pressed “save”, check that your proxy IP is valid.
If the proxy were not valid, the public IP would not appear.
The IP only shows up once the proxy is active and valid; while it is inactive, you will not be connecting to the bookies through it.
Once the settings are in place you have to press the “save” button, as you should every time you make a change, and then press “start” as well. If you already have a bookie connected, it should be working now!
Proxy safety
They work perfectly well, but it is fair to say that, in our own experience, clients who work through one tend to run into limitations sooner. The difference is small enough that we still use them, and we think it is worth knowing all the same.
On the other hand, the convenience of running several BetOven profiles from one computer or server is hard to give up once you are used to it.
BetOven’s secure browser
When you log in to a bookmaker it pays to do it as safely as you can, keeping cookies and any extra information you hand over to a minimum. On top of that, when you are connected to a bookmaker through a proxy, manual or automatic, you want to be using that same IP when you log in by hand too, or else a completely fresh one.
That is why BetOven comes with a built-in browser that works through BetOven’s proxy, letting you open Chrome behind it very easily.
Just press the Open Browser button and pick the bookmaker you want to log in to.
Depending on which bookie you have selected, BetOven will either enter your credentials for you or let you type them in. (It is not currently available for BET365.)
Extras
There is more information in every BetOven menu if you hold the cursor over the “?” question marks.
Clicking the “?” button brings up information you may find useful.
Worth knowing
If you use BetOven’s automatic proxy and your PC or server shuts down unexpectedly, closing BetOven the wrong way, and you are not going to use the app for the next few hours or days, we recommend going into the managers’ web panel and logging out of that particular profile, so BetOven’s automatic proxy does not keep spending extra points.
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