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Keep in mind that public/free elite proxies still have the risk of IP clashing; if you're unlucky enough to have used the same proxy (elite or not) as someone else who's cheated on NP and got caught, you'll get chained. Having said that, the risk is small. Avoid proxies from common spam countries like China or Russia.
That said, I agree with the above in using a VPN instead. There is still the risk of IP clashing, but the risk is even smaller than a proxy, because most VPN providers do not allow you a static IP. They randomly assign you an IP from their server list each time you log on. Thus, the odds of people cluttering on a single IP is low.