A Guide to Dolphin Anty Proxy Setup in 2026

If you have ever managed more than a few online accounts from the same device, you already know how it goes. The platforms start connecting the dots. One account gets flagged, the IP gets blacklisted, and every other profile running from that same connection goes down with it. It does not matter how different your usernames were or how careful you were with your login patterns. If the IP was the same, the platform treated them as the same person.

Dolphin Anty is an antidetect browser built to solve this problem. It isolates each account inside its own browser profile, complete with a unique fingerprint, separate cookies, and its own proxy connection. To the platform, each profile looks like a different person on a different device in a different location. The proxy is what actually makes that illusion hold up. Without one, every profile still shares your real IP address, and at that point you might as well not be using an antidetect browser at all.

This article will walk you through how to set up proxies in Dolphin Anty, which proxy type works best for different use cases, how to make sure your fingerprint settings do not contradict your proxy, and what to do when something goes wrong. By the end, you should have a solid understanding of the full workflow from adding your first proxy to verifying that nothing is leaking.

What is Dolphin Anty?

Dolphin Anty is a Chromium-based antidetect browser built for affiliate marketers, media buyers, and anyone who manages multiple online accounts at the same time. Every profile you create comes with its own fingerprint, a combination of parameters like screen resolution, WebGL rendering, installed fonts, timezone, and language. To whatever platform you are accessing, each profile appears to be a completely separate user on a separate device.

The free tier gives you five profiles with no time limit. Paid plans start at $10/month on the Starter tier, which covers up to 60 profiles. If you are curious about how Dolphin Anty stacks up against the rest of the market, we have a full ranking of the best antidetect browsers in 2026 that covers eleven options in detail.

Supported Proxy Protocols and Formats

Dolphin Anty supports four proxy protocols:

HTTP: The most widely used protocol for proxy connections. It handles standard web traffic and works with most providers out there.

SOCKS5: Handles both TCP and UDP traffic. If your provider offers it, SOCKS5 is typically the more flexible choice.

SOCKS4: An older protocol that does not support authentication. You will rarely need this unless your provider specifically requires it.

SSH: Routes traffic through an encrypted SSH tunnel. Some providers offer SSH-based connections as an alternative to SOCKS, though this is less common.

When adding a proxy, Dolphin Anty accepts credentials in three formats:

• host:port (for IP-whitelisted proxies that do not require a username)
• host:port:username:password
• username:password@host:port

If you want to specify the protocol inline rather than selecting it from the dropdown, you can prepend it to the string like this: socks5://host:port:username:password. For proxies that support IP rotation, you can also embed the rotation link at the end using square brackets: socks5://host:port:username:password[https://your-rotation-url.com/change-ip].

Your credentials need to be copied exactly as they appear in your provider’s dashboard. Even a single extra space or a missing character will cause the connection to fail, which is a surprisingly common issue.

How to Add a Proxy in Dolphin Anty

There are three ways to add proxies in Dolphin Anty: during profile creation, through the proxy manager, and via bulk import. All three support the same protocols and credential formats we just covered.

During Profile Creation

This is the method you will use most often, especially when setting up your first few profiles.

1. Open Dolphin Anty and click Create Profile.
2. Give the profile a descriptive name. If you are managing accounts across platforms, including the platform and account number helps keep things organized (for example, “FB-Ads-03”).
3. In the profile creation form, scroll to the Proxy section and select New Proxy.
4. Select the protocol that matches your proxy type. For most mobile and residential proxies, this will be HTTP or SOCKS5. Your provider’s documentation will tell you which one to use.
5. Paste your proxy credentials into the input field. You can paste them in any of the formats mentioned above, such as host:port:username:password.
6. Click the check button, which is the arrows icon on the right side of the proxy field. Dolphin Anty will test the connection and, if the credentials are correct, display the geolocation and timezone associated with that proxy IP.
7. If your proxy supports IP rotation, paste the rotation URL into the Link to change IP field. Once saved, an IP change button will appear next to the profile on the main screen, allowing you to rotate to a new IP without reopening the profile settings.
8. Finish configuring the rest of the profile settings (we cover fingerprint alignment further down in this article) and click Create Profile.

If the check fails, go back and verify that you selected the correct protocol, that there are no extra spaces in the pasted credentials, and that the proxy is still active in your provider’s dashboard.

Through the Proxy Manager

The proxy manager is useful if you want to add your proxies ahead of time before assigning them to profiles, or if you are working in a team where proxies need to be shared across members.

1. In the left sidebar, click Proxies to open the proxy manager.
2. Click Add Proxy, which will appear either at the top right or in the center of the screen.
3. Paste your proxy credentials and, if you want, give the proxy a name so you can identify it later.
4. Click the check button to verify the connection.

That is all it takes. The proxy is now saved to your list. Whenever you create or edit a profile, you can select Saved Proxy and pick from this list instead of entering credentials from scratch every time.

You can also test multiple proxies at the same time. Select them using the checkboxes and the batch actions menu will let you check connections, share proxies with teammates, or delete entries in bulk.

Bulk Import

If you are setting up dozens or hundreds of profiles, adding proxies one by one is not realistic. This is where bulk import comes in.

1. Prepare your proxy list with one entry per line, using any of the supported credential formats.
2. Open the Proxy Manager from the left sidebar.
3. Click Add Proxy and paste your entire list into the input field. Dolphin Anty will parse each line as a separate proxy entry.
4. Select all the imported proxies using checkboxes and run a batch check to confirm they are all active.

It is worth noting that bulk operations are only available on paid plans. The free tier limits you to five profiles and does not support bulk proxy management.

Once your proxies are in the system, you can assign them to profiles one at a time, or you can select multiple profiles from the browser profiles screen, click Change Proxy, and assign from your saved list.

Which Proxy Type for Which Use Case

Not all proxies perform the same way inside an antidetect browser. Choosing the right type depends on what you are doing with your profiles and how aggressive the target platform is with its detection. Let us explore the main use cases.

Affiliate Marketing and Ad Accounts

If you are running Facebook, Google, or TikTok ad accounts, mobile proxies are the standard. Mobile carriers route hundreds of real users through the same public IP address using a technology called CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT). Platforms know this, which is why they are reluctant to block mobile IPs. Doing so would risk cutting off real, paying customers, and no platform wants to do that.

Datacenter proxies are not a viable option for ad accounts. Platforms like Facebook maintain databases of datacenter IP ranges and will flag them on sight. In some cases, just connecting from a datacenter IP is enough to trigger a checkpoint where the platform asks for a photo of your ID. Residential proxies sit somewhere in the middle and can work for lower-value accounts, but for anything tied to real ad spend, mobile remains the safer route.

For ad accounts specifically, stick with sticky sessions or static mobile IPs. Changing your IP mid-session is the kind of behavior that platforms track, and it can trigger a security review even if everything else about the profile looks clean.

Social Media Multi-Accounting

Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter) expect mobile traffic. They trust mobile carrier IPs more than any other type, which makes mobile proxies the strongest option for high-value social accounts. Residential proxies work well at a larger scale, especially when the cost of assigning a mobile proxy to each of dozens or hundreds of accounts starts getting too high.

The key rule here is one proxy per account. If two profiles share an IP, the platform can link them. You also want to match the proxy location to whatever region the account was created in or is primarily active in. A profile that claims to be in Paris while connecting from a Chicago IP is exactly the sort of inconsistency that platforms look for. And sticky sessions are important here too. A rotating IP that changes mid-session can trigger logouts and CAPTCHA prompts, which is especially frustrating when you are trying to warm up a new account.

E-Commerce Marketplace Management

Amazon, eBay, and Shopify all require residential or mobile proxies for seller account management. Datacenter IPs will not work. These platforms maintain their own lists of datacenter ranges and will flag traffic coming from them.

For seller accounts, static residential proxies are the go-to. They give you a consistent IP that matches the billing address on the account. If your Amazon seller account is registered in London, your proxy needs to geolocate to London. A mismatch between the billing address and the proxy location is one of the most common reasons for account reviews on these platforms.

Web Scraping and Data Collection

Web scraping is the one use case where rotating proxies outperform static ones. You want each request to come from a different IP so that no single address gets rate-limited or flagged for suspicious patterns. Residential proxies handle most scraping targets well enough. For sites behind more aggressive anti-bot systems like Cloudflare or DataDome, mobile proxies tend to have better pass rates because their IPs carry a higher trust score, largely due to the CGNAT mechanism we mentioned earlier.

How you rotate depends on what you are scraping. For independent page requests like product listings or search results, rotating the IP on every request or every few requests is ideal. For anything that requires a login, you will want to use a sticky session to keep the authenticated state alive and rotate after logging out. If your provider offers configurable rotation intervals, shorter intervals or per-request rotation will keep you under the radar. For a deeper look at how proxy selection interacts with anti-bot detection, we have a detailed guide on the best proxies for web scraping that goes into this at length.

Fingerprint Settings to Match Your Proxy

Adding a proxy to your profile is only half of the job. The other half is making sure your fingerprint settings are not telling a different story than your IP. If your proxy says you are in Tokyo but your timezone says Berlin, that is a red flag any platform will catch.

Timezone: Dolphin Anty defaults this to Auto, which pulls the timezone from the proxy’s geolocation. Leave it on Auto. If you switch to manual, you are introducing room for error. A proxy in Tokyo, for example, should show Asia/Tokyo (UTC+9). If the auto-detected value looks wrong after running the proxy check, you can correct it manually, but only do so if it is clearly incorrect.

Language: This also defaults to Auto and will match the proxy’s location. Double check that it was resolved correctly, especially for proxies in multilingual countries. A proxy with a Brazilian IP should show Portuguese (pt-BR) as the primary language, not English. Platforms compare the Accept-Language header against the IP’s geolocation, and a mismatch is easy to catch.

WebRTC: This is the setting that catches the most people off guard. WebRTC is a browser technology that enables real-time communication features like video calls and voice chat, but it has a side effect that matters here: it can expose your actual IP address even when a proxy is active. If you have ever wondered why an account got banned despite having everything configured correctly, a WebRTC leak is often the answer no one thinks to check.

Dolphin Anty gives you five modes to manage it. Off disables WebRTC entirely. Real exposes your actual IP, which you should never use when working with proxies. Altered replaces your IP with the proxy IP, and this is the default. Manual lets you set a custom IP. Without UDP blocks, UDP-based leaks while keeping WebRTC functional for the applications that need it.

Leave it on Altered unless you have a specific reason to change it. If you want to understand the mechanics behind how WebRTC leaks work and how browser fingerprinting fits into the picture, we have a full guide that covers all of it.

Geolocation: Defaults to Auto, which pulls latitude and longitude from the proxy IP. Make sure the auto-detected coordinates look reasonable. If a website asks for your location through the browser API, it will receive whatever coordinates are set here, so they need to line up with where the proxy says you are.

Operating system: Match it to your actual device. If you are on Windows, use a Windows fingerprint. macOS, use macOS. Font rendering behaves differently across operating systems and a mismatch can trip detection systems. This one is straightforward.

The point of all of this is consistency. Every data point your browser broadcasts needs to tell the same story as your proxy IP. A profile with a London IP, an English language setting, a UK timezone, and a Windows fingerprint running on a Windows machine is believable. A profile with a mismatched timezone, a wrong language, and a leaked WebRTC IP is not. Platforms are checking for exactly these kinds of contradictions.

Verifying Your Setup

Before putting any profile into production, take two minutes to verify that the proxy is working and that nothing is leaking. Skipping this step is how accounts get banned without any obvious explanation, and it happens more often than you might think.

Step 1: Launch the profile. On the browser profiles screen, click Start next to the profile you configured. Dolphin Anty will open a new browser window using that profile’s fingerprint and proxy.

Step 2: Check your IP. Go to whoer.net, browserleaks.com, or ipleak.net. The IP displayed should match the proxy IP from your provider’s dashboard, not your real IP. Verify that the country and city are correct as well.

Step 3: Look for WebRTC leaks. On the same testing site, find the WebRTC section. You should see either the proxy IP (if WebRTC is set to Altered) or nothing at all (if it is set to Off). If your real IP shows up here, go back to the profile settings and change the WebRTC mode. This is the leak that people miss the most.

Step 4: Check for DNS leaks. The DNS section will show which DNS servers your browser is using. These should correspond to the proxy’s location, not your ISP. If your ISP’s DNS servers appear, the proxy may not be handling DNS queries correctly.

Step 5: Run a fingerprint consistency check. Visit pixelscan.net or iphey.com. These tools will analyze your fingerprint and flag anything that looks off, whether that is a timezone mismatch, a language mismatch, or a WebRTC configuration that does not add up. A clean result means the profile is ready.

Do this for every new profile. It takes almost no time and it prevents the kind of silent leaks that get accounts banned with no warning and no explanation.

Common Errors and Fixes

Most proxy issues in Dolphin Anty trace back to a handful of causes.

The proxy check returns an error: Nine times out of ten, this is a credentials problem. Make sure the protocol you selected (HTTP, SOCKS5, etc.) matches what your provider specifies. Look for extra spaces or accidental line breaks in the pasted string. Confirm that the proxy has not expired in your provider’s dashboard. If you embedded a rotation URL in square brackets, remove any trailing slashes from the string. Dolphin Anty can interpret them as part of the port and throw an invalid port length error. This one trips people up more than you would expect.

The profile opens but pages do not load: If the proxy check passed but websites are not loading, the IP itself may be temporarily blocked by the target site. Try rotating to a new IP or switching to a different proxy from your pool. If the check also fails now, the proxy is likely down or rate-limited on your provider’s end.

Geolocation is wrong: Dolphin Anty auto-fills geolocation data based on the proxy check, but only if you actually ran the check. If you skipped it or it failed, the geolocation fields may still reflect a previous proxy or your real location. Run the check again and confirm the auto-filled values.

WebRTC is leaking your real IP: This typically happens when the WebRTC setting was left on Real, or when a browser extension is overriding the configuration. Set WebRTC to Altered or Off in the profile settings, remove any extensions that might interfere, and re-test. As we mentioned in the fingerprint section, this is one of the most common causes of bans that seem to come out of nowhere.

Everything is slow: Mobile and residential proxies route through real consumer networks, so they will always be slower than datacenter proxies. That is just the nature of it. If the speed is significantly worse than what you would normally expect though, try a proxy server that is geographically closer to you or to the target site. Running fewer profiles simultaneously can also help if your plan has bandwidth limits.

Bulk import is not parsing correctly: Make sure every entry in your list is on its own line with no blank lines or stray formatting. Dolphin Anty expects a consistent format across all entries. Mixing host:port:user:pass on some lines with user:pass@host:port on others will cause the parser to break.

Conclusion

Dolphin Anty takes care of the fingerprint side of multi-account management. The proxy handles the IP side. Neither one works without the other.

Once you understand the workflow, the setup is not very complicated. Add your proxy credentials during profile creation or through the proxy manager, run the connection check, and make sure your timezone, language, and WebRTC settings match your proxy. Where accounts get banned is usually in the small details: a timezone that does not match, a language setting left on English for a Brazilian IP, or a WebRTC leak that nobody checked for.

Key Takeaways:

• One proxy per profile. If two profiles share an IP, the platform can link them, and the entire point of using an antidetect browser is lost.
• Match the proxy type to your use case. Mobile proxies for ad accounts and high-value social profiles, residential for scale and e-commerce, rotating residential or mobile for scraping.
• Leave timezone, language, and geolocation on Auto. Dolphin Anty derives these from the proxy automatically. Manual overrides introduce room for mistakes.
• WebRTC should stay on Altered (the default) or Off. The Real setting will expose your actual IP and immediately contradict your proxy.
• Test every profile before using it. Two minutes on whoer.net or pixelscan.net is all it takes to catch a leak that would otherwise cost you an account.

Proxy quality matters just as much as how you configure things. You could have every setting in Dolphin Anty set up perfectly, and it will not matter if the IP behind the profile is blacklisted or coming from a datacenter range that the platform already flags on sight. If you are running accounts where a ban carries real financial cost, starting with mobile proxies that share IP ranges with real users is the safest way to go about it.

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