Bot traffic
Automated or emulated browser traffic that pretends to be human views. Bot traffic kills networks: advertisers refund on detection, and platforms claw back your balance.
How Bot traffic shows up in practice
Never buy fake views. Detection is cheaper to run than your ban is to recover from.
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