Canonical Truth: Fraud & Click Integrity
Click Injection Made Us Pay Commission on Free Installs
A fake install can steal your influencer's credit in under a second — billing you for a user you'd have gotten free anyway.
Referral & affiliate attribution for mobile apps
A fake install can steal your influencer's credit in under a second — billing you for a user you'd have gotten free anyway.
In 2026 more apps pay influencers on revenue, not clicks. Without a real transaction ID behind each sale, the same $49.99 purchase can quietly pay two creators.
A subscriber who renews 12 times can look like 12 separate 'new sale' events — and quietly pay two different creators for one person.
Platforms filter out fraud clicks, then hand creators one final number — but the silence, not the filtering, is what breeds distrust. Here's the fix.