Click-fraud audit

LinkedIn Ads carry 48% click-fraud. X / Twitter Ads run at 80–90% bot traffic. Ads4Founders advertisers pay $299/mo flat — every fake click is real money out of an advertiser's pocket. So the bot rate is audited monthly and published.

A click counts as real when all of the following hold:

• The request reaches the destination URL via Ads4Founders's redirect endpoint.
• The user-agent is a real browser fingerprint (not a headless bot).
• The IP is not in known datacenter or proxy ranges.
• Basic interaction signals are present — page actually rendered, no instant back-navigation, etc.
• The click is deduplicated within a 24h session window.

• Known crawler / bot user-agents (Googlebot, ahrefsbot, Sentry, etc.).
• Requests from datacenter IP ranges with no human signal.
• Duplicate clicks from the same fingerprint within 24h.
• Clicks where the page never finishes loading.
• Clicks from automated test harnesses.

Filtered clicks are logged separately and never billed-against or shown in the advertiser dashboard.

Real clicks only. The landing says: "Your dashboard shows clicks, signups, and revenue per slot." Filtered clicks aren't smuggled into the count. Plus: Stripe-attributed revenue per slot once Stripe is connected.

On the 1st of each month, Jorge publishes the rolling-30-day breakdown:

• Total raw clicks.
• Filtered clicks.
• Real clicks.
• Real-rate (= 1 − bot-rate).

Audited rate has been ≥99% since launch. If the rate drops below 95% in any month, every advertiser gets that month free, automatically — no email, no form.

If you suspect a click should not have counted, message Jorge with the timestamp and slot. He'll pull the raw event, walk you through the classification, and refund/credit if the call was wrong. No support ticket queue — direct line.