I see this mistake almost daily. Someone turns on a premium VPN, opens five normal Chrome incognito windows, logs into different accounts, and gets hit with a permanent ban ten minutes later. Then they blame the VPN provider.
A VPN encrypts your connection and gives you a datacenter IP that every anti-fraud system already knows is a VPN. A residential proxy gives you a clean IP address that looks like a normal homeowner's Wi-Fi.
But here is the catch: neither of them hides your actual computer. If you use a great proxy but standard Chrome, the platform still reads your WebGL, your installed fonts, and your exact monitor resolution. They instantly know it is the exact same laptop just changing IPs.
That is why antidetect browsers (Morelogin) exist. They spoof the physical hardware. If you are doing multi-accounting, the standard formula is an antidetect browser to hide the machine, paired with a residential proxy to hide the location.
How many accounts did you guys burn using desktop VPNs?