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When should I activate FraudFilter?

Activate FraudFilter as soon as your ad is approved by the ad network. Should I wait for a few clicks before activating the campaign in FraudFilter? No, it is not required. Just switch it to active right away after it’s

Third party sites

We do support using third party site as a safe page or money page. Third party site can be any site on the internet, for example, a WordPress site or blogger site or sites like Facebook, Youtube etc... You will still nee

AdWords/Facebook ads Recommendations

If you are getting banned then we have a few suggestions for you: a) Use SSL on the domain where you upload the FraudFilter PHP/JS code. b) Use PHP include method (no redirect) for both money page & safe page: https://do

How do I whitelist my IP?

Manual whitelisting is not needed. The IP through which you log in to your dashboard will be automatically whitelisted for your own account. There is no other way to whitelist your IP. If your IP is being blocked, just l

Why are ad accounts being banned?

Bad quality ad accounts. Most of the times, the advertiser doesn't know how to create good quality accounts with a) residential IPs (we recommend residential proxies from Luminati) b) virtual machine or environment like

What is the guarantee of not getting banned?

No cloaker is perfect. Our product can only defer bans, it can’t eliminate them 100%. You'll get caught at some point or will be getting banned for other reason. If you have only one account then please don't cloak. We h

Suggestions

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How to test if FraudFilter is working?

We recommend using Redirect Path extension on Chrome to test your redirects. Please use Control + Shift + R or Control + F5 or Shift + F5 to check redirect/file include, ignoring browser’s cache. Instructions for your OS

FraudFilter Bot

We use it for testing your URL. User-Agent `` Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FraudFilterbot/2.1; +https: //docs.fraudfilter.io/kb/fraudfilter-bot/) ` It's a harmless bot and only visits your URL when you trigger test your URL

Change Droplet IP

If you use this procedure, your data and configuration on the server are not lost and you'll receive a new IP. You may destroy your old droplet to not accrue further costs on your existing Droplet. Here are the steps you

Where is the HTML code option?

We’ve dropped HTML option in FF (it was also insecure) because we don't want to support multiple options to achieve the same result. You can achieve the same effect with PHP Paste: https://docs.fraudfilter.io/kb/php-past

No redirect

You need to use filepath (PHP include) instead of URL, as documented here: https://docs.fraudfilter.io/kb/url-vs-filepath/ There will be no visible redirect. It uses PHP includes to include a safe page or money page afte

Permissions

Please carefully: Issue 755 permission to the folder where you've uploaded the code Issue 644 permission to the PHP file which you've uploaded. Test your URL again. If still, it doesn't work then: Issue 775 permission to

UTF-8

If you use PHP Paste or PageGuard, while pasting the PHP code please save the file with utf-8 encoding. In Sublime text 3 editor, save the file with utf-8 encoding:

When is upgrade required?

Upgrade your code from the dashboard when the status is "Upgrade Required" An upgrade is only required when you change the safe page URL,not for any other configuration like filter or condition update. It is also require

Block IPs

If you have a few IPs sending 10s of hundreds of visits. It's highly likely, they are trying to DDoS you. You can block them with .htaccess or iptables http://www.htaccesstools.com/block-ips/ https://serverpilot.io/commu

AdWords gclid

Warning: Please make sure you enable URL tagging in Google AdWords. Then setup filtering URL parameter condition.

Convert a WP website into a static HTML website

You can use tools such as HTTrack****or SiteSuckerto create a static copy of your WordPress website. Download the WP website from an existing domain using one of the above-mentioned products. Find and replace the existin