do you think there are actually bots on the PropellerAds platform? I’ve tried several methods to detect them:

Does anyone think the PropellerAds platform actually has bots?


I’ve been trying a few methods to detect them:


Method 1:
I placed a lot of hidden links on the landing page — ones that humans can’t see but bots could click.
If a bot clicked them, I’d catch it.
But… no clicks at all, so this method didn’t catch any bots.


Method 2:
I tracked all the IPs visiting our website.
I thought if the repeat rate was very high, it would mean bots were repeatedly visiting the site.
But the highest I saw was just about 5 visits a day, which still seems normal.
So this method also failed to detect bots.


Method 3:
I asked ChatGPT, and it suggested a “light fingerprinting” method —
collecting things like browser type, installed fonts, language preferences, screen size, browser version, etc.,
then hashing them into a unique string, kind of like a digital ID.
But even using this, I only saw the same ID repeat 4–5 times a day at most,
which also seems normal.


At this point, I’m going crazy.
Is it possible that PropellerAds actually manages everything so perfectly…
that there are basically no