Use my network for monitoring
Some marketplaces decide what you see by where you connect from, so this switch lets your own searches be checked from your phone’s connection instead of ours.
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Open Settings › Advanced › Network in the app
Open Settings › Advanced › Network in the app
In the MXSender Android app go to Settings, then Advanced, then Network. The first switch is ‘Use my network for monitoring’. Not signed in yet? Turning it on creates your account, the same way your first search does.
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Turn the switch on and read the short consent sheet
Turn the switch on and read the short consent sheet
The sheet says what you are agreeing to: only your own searches, from your connection and IP address, never anyone else’s; some data and battery; stop at any time. Confirm it once. The defaults are Wi-Fi only, battery above 20 % and 200 MB a day, each adjustable right there.
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Watch the status card fill up
Watch the status card fill up
The card under the switches shows whether your phone is ready, paused or out of budget, how many checks it made today, the data they used, and the last site visited. Nothing else changes: your searches, alerts and plan stay as they were.
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Why a check from your connection can see different listings
Many classifieds sites quietly shape the list by the visitor: ‘nearby first’ sorting, a region guessed from the connection, a different order for a home connection than for a data centre. Our servers sit in one place; your phone sits where you live and shop. Checked from your phone, the site answers the way it would answer you, and the listings in your alerts are the ones you would have seen yourself.
Not every site does this. Where it does not, you will notice no difference, and the switch costs you nothing but a little data.
What your phone does, and what it never does
It loads the public search pages you pasted into MXSender, plain pages only, and sends the page text to us. We pick out the listings, compare them with what we have seen and send the alerts as before. The phone does not read the page, decide anything or keep it.
It never loads anybody else’s searches; that is enforced on our side, not by trusting the app, since a phone is only ever handed the searches of its own account. It never receives a login, a saved session, a cookie or a password; a site that needs any of those stays on our servers. To the site, a check looks like you opening the page yourself.
Data, battery and the daily budget
Wi-Fi only is on by default; you can allow mobile data, and the same daily budget then applies. The budget starts at 200 MB a day and can be set anywhere between 50 MB and 1 GB. A plain search page is small, so a day of checks on a handful of searches usually stays well below the line; the card shows the real number.
The phone only takes a check when the battery is above 20 % or charging, never while battery saver is on, and you can limit it to times when the phone is plugged in. Once the day’s budget is spent, the phone stops and our servers take over until midnight.
When your phone is off, asleep or away from Wi-Fi
Nothing in the app runs all the time. When a search is due we send the phone a silent wake-up; it makes the check and goes quiet again about a minute later. If the phone does not answer within half a minute, because it is off, asleep, outside its rules or out of reach, our servers make that check instead. No search is skipped.
Android itself limits how long an app may work in the background. If that limit is reached, the card reads ‘paused by Android until tomorrow’ and our servers carry the day. Your connection when your phone can, ours when it cannot.
Pausing, turning it off, and the second switch
Pause sits on the status card and on the small notification shown while a check runs. Turning the switch off disconnects the phone from our side at once; nothing keeps running and there is nothing to clean up. Turning it on again later is the same two taps.
The second switch, ‘Use my device for my search URLs’, goes one step further and lets the phone open the pages that need a real browser; it has its own guide. Neither switch changes what your plan allows.
❓Frequently asked questions
Does this give me more searches or faster checks?
No. Your plan decides how many searches you run and how often they are checked; this switch only changes where a check is made.
Can other people’s searches run through my phone?
No. Our servers only ever hand a phone the searches of its own owner; nobody can opt into yours.
Will the marketplace know it is me?
It sees visits from your IP address to the public search pages you set up, as when you open them in your browser. No account of yours is used.
What happens when the 200 MB are used up?
The phone stops for the rest of the day and our servers check your searches until midnight. Raise the budget if you would rather keep checks on your connection.
Does it use my mobile data?
Not unless you allow it. Wi-Fi only is the default, and the daily budget applies either way.
How do I stop it?
Turn the switch off. The phone is disconnected from our side right away and your searches continue from our servers.
Ready to stop refreshing?
Open the bot, paste a link, and let MXSender watch the market for you.