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Click Fraud Protection
Click fraud protection that defends every channel
Detect and prevent invalid clicks on your paid ads in real time — backed by 2 billion analysed clicks across 500+ advertisers.
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What is click fraud protection software?
Click fraud protection software detects and prevents invalid clicks on your paid ads in real time. It scores every click on device, network and behavioural signals, identifies bots, click farms and competitor clicks, and automatically excludes the fraudulent sources — so your budget reaches real prospects.
The need is channel-dependent: invalid traffic ranges from 2.18% on search to 15.9% on native ads, and on a large budget even a low percentage is real money spent on clicks that can never convert.
How it works
How click fraud protection works
Protection happens on every click, in real time, before the fraud drains more budget:
Identify the fraud
Bots, click farms, competitor clicks and fraudulent publishers are separated from genuine prospects.
Exclude automatically
Invalid sources are added to exclusions across your campaigns, so they stop costing you.
Reallocate budget
Spend is freed up for real users, and your reporting reflects genuine performance.
Buyer's checklist
What the best click fraud protection has
Look for
- Coverage across every channel, not one platform
- Real-time detection and exclusion
- Low false positives
- Published data and transparent methodology
- Fast tag or firewall setup
Avoid
- Single-platform-only tools
- Reports without prevention
- Blunt blocking that loses customers
- Claims with no data behind them
- Long, heavy integrations
By channel
Where click fraud and invalid traffic hit hardest
Single-platform tools protect one channel. Invalid traffic spans all of them:
| Channel | Invalid traffic rate |
|---|---|
| Native advertising | 15.9% |
| Programmatic / display | 15.43% |
| Social | 10.61% |
| Affiliate | 9.09% |
| SEM / Search | 2.18% |
Protect your PPC budget today
Opticks deploys click fraud protection across your channels in 5 minutes — scoring every click and preventing the invalid ones from draining spend.