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.
While standard advertiser disputes see below 20% acceptance, BotRefund achieves an 83% approval rate. Here is why platform dispute teams approve our dossiers:
Google and Meta only filter pre-click. We prove on-site bot execution using 110+ forensic signals—mouse tremor entropy, headless browser hooks, and CDP leaks.
Every disputed dollar is mapped to verified GCLID and fbclid records with microsecond timestamps, formatted to platforms’ exact evidentiary thresholds.
We bypass frontline support bots to negotiate through direct Google and Meta review channels authorized to grant billing restitution credits.
Born from Seatext AI’s enterprise fraud engine, our 2,000+ monthly filings give us deep insider knowledge of platform billing procedures.
Forensic audits are completely free. You only pay our 32% fee after credits are confirmed in your ad account billing history.
Backed by 110+ client-side forensic signals & GCLID-linked compliance dossiers.
Ad networks dismiss tickets relying only on basic IP lists or server bounce rates.
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.
Up to 49% of purchases now involve AI research in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Crude fraud tools use blunt IP bans that accidentally block AI buyers. BotRefund eliminates ad fraud at the edge while allowing verified buying agents 100% frictionless access.
Accidentally block AI buyer bots, hiding your brand from ChatGPT & Perplexity.
Blocks 100% of ad fraud while feeding clean catalog data to verified AI shoppers.
How bot attacks actually look inside your marketing dashboards across Meta, PMax, Google Search, Reddit, VPN proxies, and remnant ad networks—and why standard analytics miss them.
Your Meta Ads Manager reports booming click-through rates and cheap “Add to Cart” conversions, but your Shopify backend shows deserted checkouts and rising acquisition costs. Competitor syndicates use aged Facebook accounts to click ads and fire cart events without buying. Meta’s Advantage+ algorithm assumes these bots are high-intent buyers, aggressively funneling your ad budget into bot rings while real buyers get crowded out.
When reviewing your PMax placement breakdown, the bulk of your ad spend didn’t go to high-converting Search or YouTube—it vanished into obscure mobile utility apps and Made-for-Advertising (MFA) click-farms. Headless browser scripts cycle ad slots every few seconds to extract publisher payouts, siphoning thousands of dollars with 0-second dwell time and $0 revenue.
You allocate a daily cap on your highest-intent commercial keywords, and by 10:30 AM your budget is 100% exhausted with zero demo requests or sales calls. Competitors deploy automated click scripts routed through residential proxies to systematically click your top Search ads every morning, wiping out your budget so their ads dominate afternoon buyers.
Reddit Ads dazzles marketers with tempting $1.50–$3 CPMs and huge reported click volumes, but Google Analytics reveals 98% immediate bounces and sub-second visits. Reddit’s network is swarmed by automated scrapers, price crawlers, and phantom click scripts that inflate click metrics without a single human ever seeing your landing page.
You configure campaigns to target strictly high-value Tier-1 markets (US, UK, CA) paying premium CPCs, yet your analytics and CRM are flooded with out-of-market timezones, foreign device languages, and invalid phone numbers. Overseas click farms and micro-taskers route traffic through commercial VPNs (NordVPN, ExpressVPN) and US datacenter IPs (AWS, DigitalOcean). Because Google and Meta only perform surface-level IP checks, they charge you full US click prices for users physically located thousands of miles away.
When you lower target bids or run broad reach campaigns to scale volume, impressions and clicks surge dramatically at pennies per visit—yet sales completely flatline. Google and Meta sit on billions of unsold, bot-heavy ad slots across partner networks that their internal models know will never convert. Rather than write off this worthless inventory, ad platforms sanitize it as “exploratory reach” or “low purchase intent visitors” and quietly dump it onto your lowest-bid campaigns to exhaust your budget and hit platform revenue quotas.
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. Flat $10/month monitoring plus $2 per 1,000 verified bots reported.
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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$10/mo monitoring + detected bots | $10/mo + $2.00 / 1,000 bots | $10 / mo | $30 to $40 / 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.