Direct Answer: These are techniques that automated browsers use to hide their real location or network. BotRefund's HTTP Protocol Mismatch check looks for evidence of proxy rotation, location masking, or browser spoofing. A real visitor's connection, location, language, and timing normally agree. When they...

Direct Answer: A real browser usually has coherent connection, location, language, and timing data. Automated browsers often show mismatches from proxy rotation or browser spoofing. BotRefund treats these mismatches as evidence and cross-checks them against 106 independent signals before deciding.

Direct Answer: Fake clicks typically come from three places: competitor click campaigns where rivals manually click your ads, botnets and proxy networks that route automated requests through compromised residential devices, and malicious display or publisher networks that auto-click ads on their own sites to...

Direct Answer: Add a clause that bans cookie placement without an active user click on the partner's domain, a clause that invalidates cookies set on checkout pages if they override prior referrals, and a clause that reserves the right to withhold payouts when click-to-conversion...

Direct Answer: The audit scans your site with over one hundred independent checks, including browser capability, speech synthesis, network and device signals. It builds a picture of each visit and flags suspicious activity. BotRefund then provides a report showing which traffic appears automated.

Direct Answer: BotRefund treats that mismatch as one piece of evidence, not a final answer. It cross-checks the signal against independent browser, network, device, and behavior data. The AI prediction then decides if the visit is a bot, which is why a single mismatch...

Direct Answer: The signal is treated as independent evidence and sent into BotRefund's prediction AI. The AI evaluates it together with browser, network, device, and behavior data to decide if the visit is human or automated. When the evidence supports a bot verdict, it...

Direct Answer: You take the dispute-ready report containing the GCLIDs, timestamps, and behavioral proof and submit it to Google Ads or Meta Ads support as a Click Investigation request. Once the ad platform reviews the evidence, they issue a billing credit back to your...

Direct Answer: You receive a concise report showing the percentage of traffic flagged as bot and the key signals behind each flag. The report also outlines next steps for real‑time blocking or filing refunds. If you choose, you can upgrade to full protection directly...

Direct Answer: During the learning phase, the ad platform's neural network has very few data points and assigns high weight to the first 20–50 interactions. If those interactions are from bots on low-quality networks like Google Search Partners, the algorithm enters a 'bot loop'...

Direct Answer: BotRefund avoids making a bot verdict from one anomaly. A user with accessibility tools could produce a signal that looks unusual, but BotRefund looks for corroboration from other checks. If the rest of the pattern matches human behavior, that user is not...

Direct Answer: They may trigger an anomaly in one check, but that does not mean they are a bot. BotRefund treats the anomaly as evidence and cross-checks it against independent data. If the other signals do not support the same story, the visitor should...

Direct Answer: You can start by checking server logs for high click rates with zero interaction or using hidden honeypot fields in your forms. For a more automated approach, BotRefund offers a lightweight script that monitors over 50 client-side behavioral signals to identify bots...

Direct Answer: A forensic click log contains detailed session records including GCLID and FBCLID identifiers. These logs provide evidence that invalid traffic occurred and can be submitted to ad platforms to claim refunds. BotRefund generates compliance-ready forensic logs you can download for this purpose.

Direct Answer: A free bot audit from BotRefund scans your site for 106 independent signals, including rapid tab blurs, to detect automated traffic. You get a report showing how many bot visits occurred and which behaviors were detected. This helps you decide whether to...

Direct Answer: A Navigation Timing Stub is a placeholder or incomplete implementation of browser navigation timing APIs that some automated browsers expose. BotRefund checks for this as one of 106 independent signals to see if a browser is hiding its real behavior. A normal...

Direct Answer: It is one of the independent checks BotRefund uses to spot automated visits. It looks for a mismatch that a real browsing session would not normally create. Scripts can send clicks and scrolls, but they struggle to reproduce the varied timing, movement,...

Direct Answer: It is one of 106 independent checks BotRefund uses to spot automated browsers. The check looks for a mismatch that appears when automation tools patch or hide browser APIs. A normal browser runs those APIs as designed, so the mismatch stands out....

Direct Answer: An Accept-Language Mismatch occurs when the language header sent by a browser does not align with the visitor’s IP‑based location or device settings. Real users typically have consistent language and location data, while bots often spoof or rotate these values. BotRefund flags...

Direct Answer: Anti-stealth traps are checks designed to catch bots that try to mimic human behavior by hiding their automation. BotRefund includes traps that look for patched browser APIs, debugger presence, and other anomalies. These traps are part of the 106 independent checks that...