Stop paying for US ad clicks from users in China and overseas on VPNs.
Google and Meta charge you full $15–$50 US rates when someone clicks your ads through a VPN server in Los Angeles or New York. But the person is actually in China, Russia, or overseas where you don't ship, sell, or service.
Seatext Detects VPN Ad Clicks: We capture 110+ forensic network and browser signals to compile formatted refund packages for Google and Meta — with an 87% refund recovery rate.
The scale of the VPN ad spend leak
1B+ people worldwide use VPNs. When overseas users click your localized ad campaigns, your ad budget gets drained on clicks with zero commercial intent.
VPN Traffic in Paid Ads
In client audits, an average 12% of Google & Meta clicks originate from VPNs outside the targeted US or European market.
Charged as Normal Clicks
81% of VPN clicks are billed as standard legitimate clicks by ad networks unless forensic evidence is submitted.
Successful Refund Rate
87% of advertisers who submit our structured evidence packages successfully recover ad credits from Google & Meta.
How a $15 click becomes a refundable evidence claim
VPN clicks are not obvious bots. They are real people on real devices, but they are in the wrong country to ever buy from you.
You pay for a click in your target market
Your campaign targets customers in the United States, UK, Canada, or Germany where a conversion has high lifetime value.
Google or Meta sees a real user & charges you
The click comes from a real browser with authentic human mouse movement. The platform sees a US datacenter IP and bills you full price.
The visitor is physically in another country
The exit node is in Los Angeles, but the visitor is physically in China or Eastern Europe using a commercial VPN tunnel.
A small location gap becomes a major budget leak
When 10% to 15% of your clicks have this location mismatch, thousands of dollars in ad spend are wasted every month on traffic that cannot buy.
Seatext compiles the evidence and recovers the spend
We connect the click ID, timestamp, IP route, round-trip time, and browser canvas drift into a formatted refund claim ready for platform reviewers.
110+ Deep Signals That Ad Networks Cannot Ignore
We do not just check simple IP blocklists. We evaluate multi-layered physical and network characteristics that prove location mismatches.
Physical RTT Latency vs Speed-of-Light
A true Los Angeles user has a 10–25ms ping to a West Coast edge server. A VPN user routed from Asia has a physical 180–260ms minimum round-trip time governed by the speed of light in optical fiber.
System Clock & Timezone Drift
Compares the browser runtime JavaScript timezone offset, locale formatting, and hardware RTC clocks against the reported IP timezone.
WebRTC Network Leak Detection
Queries ICE candidate interfaces to uncover private local IP ranges, secondary gateway routes, and underlying cellular/residential adapters.
Click ID & GCLID Reconciliation
Attaches every forensic flag to the exact Google Click ID (GCLID), Meta FBCLID, campaign name, ad group, keyword, and actual cost billed.
Datacenter ASN & Hosting Verification
Identifies IPs belonging to hosting facilities (AWS, DigitalOcean, M247, Datacamp) rather than residential internet service providers (Comcast, AT&T, Spectrum).
Formatted Claim Documentation
Generates structured evidence files formatted specifically for Google Ads Click Quality and Meta Advertising Review teams for maximum approval rate.
Everything you need to know about VPN ad click detection
Find your refundable ad clicks in 60 seconds
Add 1 line of code to your website. Seatext will audit your paid traffic, detect disguised VPN clicks, and compile your refund evidence automatically.