BotRefund proves which visits were non-human using 110+ forensic signals, prepares evidence dossiers, and negotiates refunds directly with Google and Meta.
Submitted forensic GCLID session proof to Google Ads reviewers to reclaim search ad budget.
PMax Recovery
Exposed automated form-fill bots that polluted smart bidding algorithms and wasted spend.
Search Defense
Identified rival scraping rings burning daily B2B search budgets by noon with residential proxies.
SaaS Audit
Cleaned HubSpot pipeline data and stopped headless crawlers submitting fake enterprise trials.
Meta Advantage+
Real-time pixel suppression stopped non-human events from corrupting campaign lookalike models.
Healthcare
Uncovered foreign automated visits routed through US datacenters charged at top domestic rates.
Travel & Hospitality
Eliminated competitive fare scrapers from triggering expensive dynamic retargeting ads.
Traditional click fraud tools merely filter IP addresses or show passive analytics dashboards without recovering a single dollar. BotRefund is the only platform that takes direct action on your behalf to recover wasted spend as confirmed billing adjustments and ad credits applied directly to your ad accounts.
Ad platforms like Meta and Google rely entirely on the conversion signals your website feeds back. When bots trigger fake visits, “Add to Cart” clicks, or bogus form fills, your ad algorithms get corrupted: Meta Advantage+ and Google Smart Bidding start optimizing delivery toward bot profiles instead of real paying customers, causing CPAs to spike permanently.
Research shows up to 49% of purchase decisions are now made with LLM analysis in tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Other ad click blockers (such as CHEQ and ClickCease) literally block all AI scrapers and buying agents with blunt IP blacklists, erasing your brand from AI search answers and killing high-intent sales. BotRefund recognizes verified AI agents at the edge and feeds them structured catalog and pricing data, ensuring your brand stays visible so agents can freely help your clients buy.
Specialized syndicates now operate bot networks with tens of thousands of aged Facebook accounts. Competitors rent these fleets not just to drain daily ad budgets, but to deliberately trigger fake “Add to Cart” signals, poisoning Meta’s AI optimization models so campaigns hunt for bots instead of real customers.
BotRefund Countermeasure: Evaluates 110+ telemetry factors to suppress the Meta Pixel in <50ms at the edge, blocking poisoned signals before Meta logs them.
Protect Meta Pixel →Competitors rent access to 10,000s of aged, synthetic Facebook accounts equipped with warm cookies, realistic history, and residential IPs.
Bots comment on and engage with niche competitor ads, prompting Meta’s interest graph to classify them as “high-intent, ready-to-buy consumers.”
Believing these profiles are hot buyers, Meta’s Advantage+ engine shows your ads to them. Bots swarm your ads, draining daily budget at high CPMs.
Bots click through your landing pages and trigger “Add to Cart” or checkout links, forcing your Meta Pixel and CAPI to log fake conversion signals.
When even one of these patterns occurs, your dashboard shows active clicks while your ad budget is funding click farms or competitor campaigns.
When you launch a new ad campaign or update creatives, competitive ad spy tools, price crawlers, and automated verification bots immediately swarm your new ad links and scan the landing page. In this delicate algorithmic learning phase, Meta and Google’s bidding models register these initial non-human scanning visits as high-intent buyer engagement. The algorithm then permanently skews its Lookalike and Advantage+ models toward synthetic bot signatures, crashing conversion rates and triggering sudden CPA spikes before real customers ever see your ads.
Google Performance Max and programmatic campaigns automatically distribute ad spend across third-party apps and search partner networks. Fraudulent publisher rings and ad arbitrage networks build low-quality Made-for-Advertising (MFA) sites and deploy automated headless browser fleets (Puppeteer/Playwright) to continuously cycle, reload, and click your ad units. These bots simulate page exploration to evade platform filters, siphoning massive portions of your daily budget into worthless publisher commissions while generating zero genuine pipeline or sales.
Competitors and malicious bidding agencies deploy automated click scripts routed through rotating residential IP proxies to target your highest-CPC Google Search keywords between 8:00 AM and 11:30 AM. For high-ticket B2B and professional services where CPCs exceed $40–$150+, just 20 deliberate bot clicks can exhaust a $2,000 daily budget. Advanced bots even submit auto-filled fake lead forms to imitate high quality. Once your daily cap is burned out before noon, your ads disappear, handing your competitor an uncontested monopoly on high-intent afternoon buyers.
Ad networks bill top-tier domestic rates for clicks targeting the US, UK, and Europe. Overseas click farms and automated bot syndicates use US datacenter proxies and residential VPN exit nodes to masquerade as domestic shoppers. While ad network dashboards report valid US clicks, deep client-side telemetry reveals Asian and Eastern European system timezones (e.g. GMT+7/+8), foreign OS language packs, mismatched WebRTC local IPs, and emulated device fingerprints, billing you premium domestic CPCs for offshore bot traffic.
Google and Meta only filter out obvious bots (datacenter IPs, broken JA3 signatures, etc.). We focus on an extremely deep inspection of browser environments, connection parameters, and on-site behavior across 160+ factors that Google and Meta pixels cannot see. That is why we detect far more invalid traffic than standard platform filters ever catch.
When a bot clicks your ad on Google or Meta, it spends merely 2 to 4 seconds traversing the search engine redirect. All the ad network can inspect is the fleeting pre-click HTTP request (IP address and user-agent). Modern residential proxies and browser automations easily pass these static pre-click filters unnoticed.
Once the click lands on your website, BotRefund runs ultra-deep behavioral tests in real time across 160+ factors. We observe how the session actually interacts with your pages by evaluating browser environments, mouse tremor entropy, canvas rendering, DOM traversal speed, and ghost conversion triggers that ad network pixels cannot see.
Typical monthly reconciliation for an advertiser spending $50,000/mo on Google Ads:
Performance-based recovery with zero upfront risk for high-growth advertisers spending $10K+/month, and transparent self-service tools for emerging accounts.
For advertisers and agencies spending $10,000+ monthly on Google & Meta ads.
Audit bot traffic for free or get platform-compliant forensic proof dossiers to dispute refunds with Google and Meta yourself.
Deploy BotRefund to audit incoming ad traffic and expose bot waste on your campaigns.
Dispute clicks with Google and Meta yourself. Pay strictly for verified bots reported, with zero monthly subscription minimums.
Traditional fraud platforms bill for every single click (including genuine human buyers) or enforce high monthly minimums. BotRefund inspects all incoming traffic but charges strictly when a verified bot is detected.
| Provider | What You Pay For | Unit Rate | Monthly Minimum | Cost on 100k Visitors | Relative Cost |
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BotRefund
Self-Service Recovery
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Only detected invalid bots | $2.00 / 1,000 bots | $0 (No minimum) | $24 to $30 / mo | Baseline (1x) |
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ClickCease
CHEQ SMB Platform
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All ad visits (humans + bots) | ~$19.80 / 1,000 visits | $99 / mo (5k visit cap) | $349 / mo | 12x to 14x higher |
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Fingerprint.com
Device Intelligence
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All API checks (humans + bots) | $4.00 / 1,000 requests | $99 / mo (20k request cap) | $400 / mo | 13x to 16x higher |
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reCAPTCHA Enterprise
Google Cloud Security
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All visitor assessments | $1.00 / 1,000 requests | 10,000 free, then $1/1k | $98 / mo | 3x to 4x higher |
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DataDome / CHEQ
Enterprise WAF / Firewall
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All web requests (contract) | Annual enterprise commitment | $1,500 to $3,000+ / mo | $1,500+ / mo | 50x+ higher |
Legacy click fraud tools rely on 2014 IP exclusion blacklists that fail against rotating residential proxies and provide 0% protection on Google Performance Max. Here is how BotRefund is different.
ClickCease flags repeat IPs and hopes Google won't charge you next time. BotRefund compiles forensic 60-day dossiers with GCLIDs, timestamps, and browser telemetry to recover actual billing credits for the clicks that already stole your budget.
Over 65% of paid media budgets now run on Google PMax and Meta Advantage+, where Google and Meta strictly disable IP exclusions. Legacy IP blockers offer 0% protection here. BotRefund audits all campaign types through post-click forensic telemetry.
CHEQ Paradome locks enterprise brands into rigid $20,000 to $60,000+ annual contracts regardless of actual results. BotRefund provides an instant free 60-day audit, flexible monthly plans, and contingency recovery for enterprise spenders.
Yes. You do not even need visitor consent to use BotRefund. Just like Cloudflare, Akamai, and essential cybersecurity infrastructure, fraud prevention is a recognized legitimate interest under GDPR Article 6(1)(f) and the ePrivacy Directive.
Entropy scores and cryptographic hashes are computed client-side directly in the visitor’s browser and sent to our edge. We never collect or transmit raw mouse coordinates, keystroke trails, or full device parameters. Our servers only see secured mathematical hashes, meaning no visitor data that could be classified as private personal information ever touches our infrastructure.
Legitimate human visitor signals are processed purely in volatile memory with a short TTL (time-to-live). There are zero writes to persistent databases, server logs, Cloudflare Logpush, error trackers, or analytics sinks. Human telemetry vanishes immediately after inspection. Session records are stored only if you explicitly choose to archive data under an enterprise Data Processing Agreement (DPA).
We keep only aggregate counters for humans (e.g. “412 humans, 38 bots today”), never individual per-session records for humans. Forensic session dossiers are retained exclusively for flagged invalid bot visits, held strictly within Google’s 60-day refund dispute window, and permanently deleted immediately after.
We keep human data completely isolated from third parties, including external analytics vendors and AI/LLM models. We never send, share, or monetize visitor data without your explicit agreement. We only store session logs if you request long-term retention as the designated data controller under a formal Data Processing Agreement.
Lightweight edge telemetry designed to run completely outside your critical rendering path.
Fully compliant with global privacy mandates. No names, emails, or direct customer identity required for bot detection: only forensic telemetry strictly necessary for fraud prevention.
Runs asynchronously after the DOM content loads. Zero impact on Core Web Vitals, LCP, or page speed scores.
Never asks for your Google Ads or Meta logins. Your campaigns, keywords, and margins remain 100% private.
Disable, toggle, or bypass BotRefund at any time directly through your Cloudflare worker or script tag.
All client-side JavaScript is unminified and readily inspectable by your enterprise security and engineering team.
Straight answers about evidence, platform negotiation, and how recovery works.
Yes. You can review our public verified case studies at botrefund.com/case-studies, including audits for Global Payments Network ($1.2M recovered), GoHACCP ($32.4K recovered), and LogiCore ($45K recovered).
Yes. You do not even need visitor consent to use BotRefund. Just like Cloudflare and enterprise network security, fraud prevention is a recognized legitimate interest under GDPR Article 6(1)(f) and the ePrivacy Directive. We compute entropy scores and cryptographic hashes client-side in the browser rather than transmitting raw coordinates or personal device details. Real human sessions are processed ephemerally in memory with zero database writes, logged solely as aggregate volume counters, and never shared with third parties or AI/LLMs. Forensic session evidence is retained exclusively for flagged bot visits, strictly within Google’s 60-day refund dispute window.
BotRefund inspects 110+ signals across behavioral, hardware, network, and attribution layers: mouse tremor entropy, linear trajectories, typing cadence, headless globals, webdriver artifacts, WebGL rendering, and timezone geo-spoofing.
Yes. During our sales consultation, we share anonymized approval emails, credited account billing statements, sample dossiers, and platform reconciliation reports demonstrating exact billing credits and platform adjustments credited.
Google and Meta issue approved invalid-traffic restitution directly as advertising billing credits applied to your ad account balance. These credits offset your future ad invoices dollar-for-dollar, directly reducing your out-of-pocket ad spend next month.
Google officially allows advertisers to request an invalid-traffic investigation covering only clicks from the past 60 days. Because ad platforms require technical session proof (GCLID, timestamp, CDP leaks, hardware canvas hash), clicks that occurred before monitoring started cannot be proven retrospectively. Every day without telemetry means another day of bot clicks aging past Google’s dispute deadline. Once installed, BotRefund records all bot sessions for 60 days. On the free audit, you can export up to 300 verified bot click dossiers to submit your first refund claim directly with Google or Meta.
We package evidence the way platform traffic-quality reviewers require: verified GCLID/FBCLID click IDs, millisecond timestamps, campaign names, session replays, and factual explanations of why the session was automated.
No. We never ask for your advertising credentials or manager access. We monitor on-site traffic via our lightweight edge script, preserving full confidentiality over your campaigns and bids.
No. The script is completely asynchronous and adds 0ms to your critical rendering path. It executes only after the page has rendered, ensuring zero impact on Core Web Vitals or conversion rates.
Unlike ClickCease and CHEQ which focus on IP address blacklisting and threat dashboards, BotRefund focuses on hard cash refund recovery (filing certified 60-day dossiers with Google and Meta) and real-time conversion pixel defense. BotRefund also fully protects Google Performance Max and Meta Advantage+ where legacy IP blocking is completely unsupported. See our detailed comparisons: BotRefund vs ClickCease and BotRefund vs CHEQ.