Beyond bots —
catch the fraud they miss.
User-agent blocking catches crawlers. It doesn't catch a click farm cycling through real browsers, a competitor hammering your ad link to burn your budget, or a VPN exit node masking a repeat visitor. Truthylink flags all of it — and shows you exactly which check caught each one.
Four signals, checked on every click
No single signal is reliable alone — so every click is checked against all four before it counts.
Repeat-click flagging
The same /24 IP subnet clicking a link again within an hour is flagged as a repeat — not counted as a fresh visitor. Subnet-level matching catches VPN users and shared networks that present different exact IPs across requests.
Burst-pattern flagging
5+ clicks from the same /24 subnet on one link within an hour is a click-farm signature — unnaturally consistent pacing that organic traffic doesn't produce.
VPN, proxy & datacenter detection
When an IP reputation key is configured, every click's IP is classified as residential, mobile, hosting, VPN, or Tor. Datacenter and proxy traffic is flagged separately from organic clicks.
Tor exit-node detection
Tor traffic is a small share of clicks but worth isolating — a campaign link receiving repeated Tor-originated hits is unusual and flagged as its own category.
Full visibility into what's filtered
Fraudulent clicks are recorded for audit purposes but excluded from your reported analytics — and you can see exactly why each one was flagged.
Clean click rate
visible per linkIllustrative example — actual numbers depend on your link's traffic.
Who else offers this?
We checked 13 link shorteners. Here's what we found.
| Platform | Click fraud detection | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Truthylink | Included, all plans | Free |
| Linkly | Similar detection, paywalled | $15/mo+ |
| Bitly, Short.io, Rebrandly, Dub.co, TinyURL | Bot filtering only, no fraud layer | — |
Based on Truthylink's competitor audit, June–July 2026. Pricing and features change — verify directly with each vendor.
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