Someone on BlackHatWorld, in a thread titled "How to create new fb accounts nowadays?", is confused the way half the people in this pile are confused: "I've been using Dolphin Anty + Nodemaven for Reddit and it's been all good. Why can't I create a FB account with this? It's asking me for facial recognition." Same browser, same proxy, same person. Reddit let it through. Facebook wanted a face.
That is the question here. Not "my account got banned", which has its own piece, Meta banned your ad account or profile: which part was the IP. This one is about the account that never gets to exist. We sell IP addresses, so the honest version separates what the address decided from what it never touched.
Why a brand-new Facebook account gets sent to a video selfie
A fresh account is sent to a video selfie when Meta has no reason to trust the identity behind it, and in 2026 "no reason" is the default for a signup with zero history. The proxy is one input to that decision. It is not the decision.
A reply in a BlackHatWorld thread titled "Newbie Creating new Facebook accounts" lists what pushes a signup over the line: "Fresh AdPower profile + new proxy + instant registration is a red flag. It's often caused by burned proxies, reused emails/phones, IP–timezone mismatch, or ..." Two items on that list are the address. The rest are not.
Another thread, "Unable to create FB accounts even with anti detect + proxy", puts a ceiling on the whole stack: "Tools like Gologin, Multilogin, Adspower or proxies can help with legit account management, but they won't guarantee trust on freshly created profiles." Management is the word. The tools stop an existing account from leaking signals. They do not manufacture trust for one born five minutes ago.
What the proxy decided
The address decided three things at signup: whether the exit sits on a list of hosting, VPN and proxy ranges, whether it has produced other accounts recently, and whether its country agrees with the rest of the form.
The first two are the "burned proxies" in that reply. A rotating residential pool is shared by design, so the address you got this minute was somebody else's last minute, and if they made four accounts with it, you inherit the suspicion. A static ISP address nobody else has used is the only kind where the history is yours alone. Run it through a fraud-score check before the first signup anyway. Bad score, swap it.
The third is the mismatch. A US address, a browser on Berlin time, a German phone number and a Polish card is four countries on one form. Not illegal. Just not what one person at one desk looks like. Match them, and the address stops being evidence of anything. That is the entire contribution of the product.
What the proxy did not decide
The proxy did not decide the selfie, the device, the phone number, the card, or the speed at which a new account turned commercial.
Once the selfie prompt appears, the address has done its part. Someone on BlackHatWorld asked "How can I stop Facebook from repeatedly asking for a verification video, even though my account has already been verified multiple times?" A new proxy has no answer to that. We do not give advice on getting past identity verification, and a proxy company that claims it can is describing a product that does not exist.
Then the second profile. A thread titled "META ADS BLOCK ISSUE": "After one of my profiles got blocked, every new profile I try to run ads with ends up getting blocked as well." A reply in "Fb ads account restricted" names the likely reason: "It's possible that your account had been banned before, which could be why the new account was banned so quickly." The new profile shares something with the old one. A card. A number. A device. If only the address changed, the address was never the link. The Instagram version walks through the ties one by one.
"Use a natural IP address" is half right
The advice to skip the proxy is right about shared and abused exits and wrong about dedicated ones, because a dedicated static address behaves like the home line it is being compared to.
The quote is from "Meta ads account instant ban - what am I doing wrong?": "Using a proxy could be an issue. Use a natural IP address and your own payment information to reduce the chances of your Facebook ad account being flagged." Half of that is the best advice in the thread. Your own payment information. A card that has never been on a disabled account, in the same country as everything else. No address changes that tie.
The other half depends on what "a proxy" means. A residential exit eleven strangers used this week is worse than your home connection. A datacenter range is worse still. A static ISP address rented to you alone, held still for the life of the account, is a home line in every way Meta can see. It also keeps a second account off the first one's address.
On r/FacebookAds, under a plan to run US-targeted stores from the EU through "Adspower or Gologin", the first reply asks what most people skip: "why do you need proxy? you can just run ads in US while being based in EU." Audience country is a campaign setting. If account, billing and person all sit in the EU, there is no mismatch to fix.
The next-day device switch
Creating an account on a phone and logging in the next morning from a desktop behind a proxy is one of the clearest patterns a fresh account can produce, and the quality of the proxy has nothing to do with it.
A reply in "Manage multiply accounts on FB": "New account on mobile and then logging in the next day from a different device or browser with a proxy creates a high risk pattern. Fresh accounts are very ..." A one-day-old account with two devices, two addresses and a user agent that went from iPhone to Windows overnight looks stolen. Stolen accounts get locked. A clean address does not change the shape.
The fix is dull. Whichever device makes the account keeps it. A reply in "Facebook Account Integrity Ban Reason" has it in one line: "if you do not want to use antidetect browsers, then only log in to a single device." If the account will live in an antidetect profile on a desktop, create it there.
Does a factory reset make the phone safe again
Nobody outside Meta can say whether a reset clears a phone in its records, and the general facts about phones argue against assuming it does.
The thread "Facebook smartphone HARDWARE fingerprinting and reusing same device" asks it straight: "Let's say you have one smartphone, and a FB account that was banned while being used on that phone. After doing a factory reset, would it be safe to start." We will not pretend to know. A reset wipes the operating system's data and the advertising identifier gets a new value. Identifiers tied to the hardware itself, such as the IMEI or serial number, do not change. Which of these the Facebook app reads is not published. A confident yes is a guess.
A reset also never touches the SIM. If the new account verifies with the number the banned one used, the device question is moot. No proxy is involved in any of this.
Weekly checkpoints on ISP, ban waves on shared mobile, so is dedicated mobile worth it
Dedicated mobile removes the one thing that made the shared pool fail, other operators on your address, and changes nothing else about the six accounts.
The post is on r/FacebookAds, "Trying to manage multiple accounts on Meta, dedicated mobile proxies worth it?": "Running 6 Facebook and Instagram accounts across my brands and this year has been brutal on the ban side ... Started on ISP proxies from popular providers, was getting checkpoints almost weekly. Then tried shared mobile pools, they clearly weren't clean, ban waves came across multiple of my accounts and Meta clearly did not like those IPs."
Two different things happened. The shared pool is the easy one: shared with other operators, not just real subscribers, so its history belonged to whoever ran accounts on it before. A ban wave across several accounts at once is what a shared exit does.
The weekly ISP checkpoints are harder, and we sell ISP addresses, so weigh this accordingly. A static address held still does not produce a checkpoint by itself. Either those addresses came from a subnet other operators had already burned (popular providers resell the same ranges), or the checkpoints were about things the address never touched: device profiles, login timing, six brands on one card. Check the subnet first. Clean score plus weekly checkpoints means stop buying addresses.
One reply: "dedicated mobile is the only thing that held my accounts past 3 months, shared pools got me flagged every time if you got real revenue on the line just pay the premium, rebuilding accounts cost way more in the long run." That is one person's three months. A dedicated mobile line is one modem and one SIM that only you operate, behind a carrier address real subscribers also sit on. Clean of other operators, several times the price of an ISP address. If six accounts share a device fingerprint or a card, the premium buys nothing. If the address was the leak, it is the strongest fix. Do you actually need mobile proxies goes through that trade-off.
The boring setup that gives a new account a chance
A new account survives on consistency: one of everything per account, all in one country, created and used from the same place, left alone before it does anything commercial.
Pick the country the account will live in and make everything agree with it: address, browser timezone and language, phone number, card. One static address per account, never rotated, never shared. Whichever device creates the account keeps it. Fill in the profile over days. Let it be a person for a couple of weeks before it becomes an advertiser.
One thing we will not recommend, even though the threads do. A BlackHatWorld recipe for group posting opens with "1. Buy a facebook account 2. Use an anti-detect browser 3. Use a residential mobile proxy". A bought account arrives with someone else's devices, number and history, none of which you can see, and it is against Meta's terms. The Facebook proxies page covers which proxy type fits which Meta job, and the static ISP page has dedicated addresses in US, GB, DE, FR and JP. Neither will pass a selfie for you. Nothing will.
FAQ
Why does Facebook ask for a video selfie when I create a new account?
Because a brand-new account has no history and Meta wants proof that one real person is behind it. A shared, abused or wrong-country exit makes the prompt more likely, but reused phone numbers and instant registration push just as hard.
Can a proxy get me past Facebook's video selfie verification?
No. Once the prompt appears, the check is about who you are, and a new address does not change that. A clean address only lowers the odds of being asked in the first place.
Why does every new Facebook profile I make get blocked?
The new profile shares something with the blocked one: the device, the phone number, the card, the Business Manager or the address. If you changed only the address, the other links are still there.
Should I create a Facebook account from my home IP or through a proxy?
For one account that lives where you live, your home connection is fine. A proxy earns its place when the account must live in another country, or when several accounts each need their own address. Then use a dedicated static address, not a shared pool.
Can I make a Facebook account on my phone and then use it on my PC with a proxy?
Doing that on day one is the "high risk pattern" a BlackHatWorld reply describes: new device, new browser, new address, within a day of signup. Create the account on the device and address it will live on.
Does a factory reset remove Facebook's record of my phone?
Nobody outside Meta knows, and the public facts argue for caution. A reset clears app data and gives you a new advertising identifier, but hardware identifiers like the IMEI survive it, and the SIM is untouched.
Are dedicated mobile proxies worth it for Facebook accounts?
Worth it when the address was the leak, because a dedicated line removes the other operators that make shared pools dangerous. Not worth it when six accounts share a card or a device profile, because then the address was never the problem.