Anti-Counterfeit Proxy

GSocks provides a commercial, governance-first proxy layer for brand-protection teams that must document counterfeit listings, trace gray-market flows, and furnish platform-ready takedown evidence—without creating operational risk. Our approach is simple: build a stable, auditable transport surface that behaves like a real shopper across cities and carriers, then wrap it in controls that keep your program lawful, respectful, and repeatable. We prioritize rendered-page success over raw status codes, session continuity over aggressive IP churn, and chain-of-custody over ad-hoc screenshots. Each project runs on segregated subnets with its own keys, allow-lists, and retry budgets so investigations, price-policy checks, and legal test buys never contaminate one another’s footprints. Observability translates directly to executive outcomes: p95/p99 latency, success on fully rendered PDP/PLP views, receipt and order-flow capture rates, and a clear breakdown of errors by city and ASN. GSocks does not assist in bypassing platform security or evading law enforcement; we enable respectful, compliant evidence collection aligned with site terms and applicable law. With GSocks, your counsel receives defensible artifacts, your analysts get consistent visibility, and your leaders gain predictable cost per action when counterfeit risk spikes.

A brand-protection mesh must mirror real consumers while remaining tightly governed. GSocks curates mobile and residential egress across diversified autonomous systems and metro POPs so vantage points align with your shopper geographies. Sticky affinity keeps journeys coherent—search to seller profile to PDP to checkout intent—while rotation policies are tuned for continuity, not churn, reducing captcha friction and cookie loss that break evidence trails. You define scope via allow-listed domains and paths; our edge enforces the boundaries and cadence you approve with humane pacing and backoff on 429/503 to protect third-party infrastructure. Environment isolation is standard: investigations, MAP checks, and legal test-buy pilots run in separate shards with distinct subnets, keys, and audit logs. Time-to-first-image and rendered-content success matter more than TTFB in image-heavy marketplaces, so we expose both—alongside duplicate-view rates, store-selector behavior, and localization fidelity—to help you tune concurrency to reality rather than guess. Immutable logging preserves timestamps, POP, headers, and request purpose, while payload handling follows your policy for redaction and retention. The result is a calm, predictable mesh that produces consistent, locale-true pages and clean artifacts your legal team can carry into platform workflows and partner dialogues.

Counterfeit enforcement often requires controlled “test-buy” flows to verify claims, capture order confirmations, and collect refund/return patterns. GSocks supports these lawful, pre-approved activities with guardrails, not workarounds. Session stickiness preserves cart and checkout state across healthy POPs; city targeting reflects where infringement affects customers; and retry budgets prevent accidental storms during coordinated sweeps. Receipt capture focuses on rendered artifacts—order review, totals, taxes, shipping promises—and pairs screenshots with header hashes and cryptographic timestamps for defensibility. Where marketplaces vary content by device, we maintain consistent, approved device and locale hints so evidence matches real buyer contexts. On fingerprint management, our posture is measurement integrity, not evasion: we provide a small, change-controlled catalog of client-hello and header profiles vetted by your governance to reduce a single, outlier fingerprint, with versioning, expirations, and usage audit. No exploits, no bypass instructions—only stability and reproducibility so investigators can re-view a listing or order flow and obtain the same outcome. Controls like mTLS, IP allow-lists, and emergency kill-switches are standard, ensuring your team can halt collection instantly if risk, scope, or legal posture changes mid-operation.

With a disciplined transport layer, insights become actions that reduce consumer harm and protect margin. Seller linkage correlates storefronts by shared traits—naming patterns, shipping promises, image reuse, inventory timing—observed on open pages to build probable relationships without breaching access controls. MAP enforcement benefits from store-accurate snapshots of list price, strikethroughs, coupon states, and bundle math across cities and devices; alerts fire on drift thresholds so account teams can intervene with partners before policy erosion spreads. Promo shadowing tracks how your brand is positioned during tentpoles, comparing buy-box outcomes, placement density, and creative reuse against competitor pushes. Because GSocks maintains metro/ASN fidelity and long-lived sessions, your artifacts reflect what shoppers actually experience, not thin API abstractions or stale caches. Outputs arrive ready for action: timestamps, locale/device descriptors, screenshot hashes, and concise deltas from your source-of-truth feed. Over time, your program matures: faster identification of repeat counterfeit kits, quicker suppression of gray-market leaks, clearer proof in reseller dialogues, and fewer escalations that lack evidence. Leaders see the return in fewer chargebacks, stronger conversion on authorized channels, and healthier brand equity across regions.

Choosing a proxy vendor for anti-counterfeit work is a commercial and legal decision—evaluate on outcomes that matter in a takedown. Start with rendered-page success at realistic concurrency and scroll depth, not just HTTP codes. Demand city-level and carrier-level targeting with diversified ASNs to reduce correlated risk and to match victim traffic patterns. Verify session isolation and cookie scope handling across failover; unstable journeys create phantom issues in discovery and QA. Ask for transparent retry budgets, p95/p99 latency, and a breakdown of failure modes, all exportable to your SIEM or case system. Evidence handling should be first-class: cryptographic timestamps, screenshot/file hashes, immutable audit trails, and simple exports (PDF/CSV/JSON) mapped to case IDs so counsel can submit quickly. Security must be table stakes—mTLS, allow-lists, role separation, and emergency kill-switches—along with clear acceptable-use policies and cooperation with legal. GSocks was built to these standards. We align pricing to coverage and successful renders, not vague “unlimited” claims; expose per-POP metrics and cost per 1,000 successful actions; and provide onboarding that proves value with a short pilot before you scale. The result: predictable cost, defensible evidence, and a calmer, faster path from detection to takedown.