Google recognized the activity of the bot farm as normal user behavior

The developer of the mobile application DayZle faced a refusal from Google to acknowledge the fact of fraud in the advertising network. Despite the provided evidence of the bot farm operation, the company's support classified the suspicious activity as "normal user behavior".

During an internal investigation, the author discovered **33 installations** of the application that were made using an outdated version of the software. These devices demonstrated identical patterns of interaction, characteristic of automated scripts, but the moderation algorithms of the advertising platform ignored these anomalies.

The situation was exacerbated by the fact that the developer's account was temporarily blocked by Google itself. The reason was accidental clicks on advertisements caused by a known bug in the interface, which the company has not yet fixed. As a result, the developer suffered financial losses due to invalid traffic and the inability to fully manage advertising campaigns.

This incident highlights the problems in automated traffic quality control systems. The lack of transparency in moderation processes and the disregard for technical reports from application owners create risks for developers working with advertising networks of large technology corporations.