PyProxy Review

Our PyProxy Review did not get off to a great start. We were unable to access their website due to security concerns, which limits our ability to fully evaluate their services. On the plus side, the team was helpful in providing information to us and we were able to verify their business registration so as a company they appear to be legit. Here’s our concern though. When visited their web site, both McAfee and Malwarebytes triggered warnings.

PyPoxy Review: Website Risks

When we began our PyProxy review by going to their web site, we came across something rather concerning. Two different anti-virus softwares triggered warnings and blocked the page from loading. Yikes!

McAfee said “This site looks a little risky to us” and marked the web site status as suspicious. Malwarebytes threw a pop up that said “Web site blocked due to riskware”.

For us that’s a non-starter. These warnings could be triggered for non-nefarious reasons like an expired SSL certificate or just general industry reputation that has nothing to do with the quality of the PyProxy proxies or network. We would still love to do a deeper PyProxy Review but we need to see this issue fixed first. We simply can’t recommend or promote a service where this is the starting point.

Future PyProxy Review and Ethics

It doesn’t mean there is no recovering from here for PyProxy though. We did research their company off of their web site and are encouraged that they have a business entity set up properly (registered in Hong Kong in 2022). This factor somewhat decreases the risk that they are operating in the shadows. However a properly set up business entity can still do nefarious things. (Just look at the FTX crypto exchange!). That’s not to say PyProxy is nefarious. We just don’t know.

Our Decision to Caution Users

For now, given the potential risks associated with this platform, we recommend exploring alternative proxy providers with a more transparent and secure online presence.

For more information about how we apply ethical standards to our review process you can see our Ethics Policy and Disclosures. Just because we don’t recommend a proxy provider one day doesn’t mean we won’t change our stance when concerns are mitigated. In fact, it is our hope that we can help well-meaning companies improve in their deficiencies so make the entire industry a more trusted place.

At PickAProxy we believe our first duty is to our readers and not providers. That is why we do not allow proxy companies to buy higher ReviewScores or higher rankings in our ProxyMatch listings. Our scoring algorithm determines these factors and we do not consider any factors such as a providers referral commission rate in our analysis.

We do love rewarding proxy providers who go the extra mile to make the industry a better and more trusted place though, so we love when these companies make improvements that bump their review score.

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