Europe-only ChatGPT ads: 16 of 60 visits geolocate to Iran, advertiser suspects bot clicks
FcToran · reddit · 2026-11-12
An advertiser running ChatGPT Ads targeted explicitly to Europe found a large mismatch between platform-reported clicks and traffic in Matomo/Microsoft Clarity: of 60 visits, 44 (73.3%) were from Europe but 16 (26.7%) geolocated to Iran. Normal site traffic shows only 2 Iran visits out of 950 in the same period, and few people set VPNs to Iran. The advertiser suspects paying for 30% bot clicks and asks if others see the same.
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