For app users
Approved use cases
Business customers of anyip.io may use the network only for the purposes below. Every one of them comes down to viewing publicly accessible websites the way a regular visitor in your country sees them.
Comparing prices
Price intelligence: a travel company checks what a London to New York flight costs when booked from your country.
Making sure ads are real and not scams
Ad verification: an advertiser checks that the ad it paid for is actually showing and leads to the right page.
Protecting a brand
A brand looks for counterfeit listings and unauthorized sellers on marketplaces.
Market research and web statistics
A retailer tracks the average review score of a product across e-commerce sites.
SEO monitoring
A company checks where its website appears in the search results shown in your country.
App and QA testing
A company checks that its own website or app loads correctly for visitors in your country.
Academic and research datasets
A university gathers public news articles for a study.
Public web data for AI and research datasets
A research team collects the results shown for a search such as "best pizza in town". Publicly accessible content only, never logged-in, paywalled, or otherwise access-restricted pages.
Whatever the purpose, customers receive the page content and the country the request came from. They never receive your identity, device details, or any other personal data.
- Logging into accounts, or any other unauthorized access
- Credential stuffing or password spraying
- Denial of service or overloading systems
- Sending spam or messages of any kind
- Fraud, including advertising fraud and click fraud
- Obtaining or distributing unlawful content
- Collecting anything behind a login, a paywall, or another access control
- Anything unlawful where the customer is based or where your connection is located
Banking, other financial-institution, and government websites are blocked by default, for every customer.
The full rules, including how customers are checked and what happens when one breaks them, are in the Approved Use Policy. What is public web data? shows what a fetched page looks like, and How it works walks through the whole flow. Businesses looking for the service itself will find it at anyip.io.