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Bot and evasion techniques

Click farm

An operation that pays people, or scripts banks of real devices, to click ads and complete conversions at scale.

Click farms use genuine hardware, so they defeat naive device checks and have to be caught on behaviour and network signals. Because real people sometimes do the clicking, a click farm sits between a bot and a legitimate visitor, and its tell is usually the pattern across many sessions — repeated device and network characteristics, mechanical timing, journeys that never browse — not any single session looking obviously fake.

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