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What Is Click Fraud and How It Drains Your Ad Budget
Click fraud — fake clicks on ads that drain campaign budgets. Schemes, scale, and how to defend against bots and click farms.
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How click fraud works, how to spot a bot, and how anti-bot protection is built.
Click fraud — fake clicks on ads that drain campaign budgets. Schemes, scale, and how to defend against bots and click farms.
Inside an anti-bot system: device profile, heuristics, fingerprint, IP reputation, ML score, decision. Why a cascade beats a single classifier.
Bot signals: mouse anomalies, instant actions, fake browsers, honeypots, datacenter IPs. How to tell automated traffic from humans.