Cloak4U features for invalid traffic detection
Cloak4U is a click fraud protection and bot traffic detection platform. This overview walks through every feature — from bot detection and traffic quality filters to custom conditions, IP lists, analytics, and privacy — so you can see how the pieces fit together. Each feature does the same job: separate real visitors from invalid traffic and act on it transparently.
cloak4u-features-overview.pngDetection
Spot bots and invalid traffic before they cost you
The detection engine scores every visit against transparent, weighted signals and turns the result into a decision you can audit.
Bot traffic detection
Identify scrapers, click bots, headless browsers, and automation frameworks from behavioral and browser-signal inconsistencies, then block or challenge them. Learn more in the bot detection guide.
Click fraud protection
Stop repeat clicks, denylisted sources, and high-risk origins from draining paid campaigns. Every block is written to your click log with a reason code and risk score.
Device & signal checks
Combine user-agent, language, timezone, and coarse device signals to catch visits whose properties are inconsistent or impossible, without collecting sensitive data.
Filtering & rules
Filters and conditions you fully control
Tune what counts as invalid traffic with built-in filters, custom logic, and IP lists — no black box.
Traffic quality filters
Enable built-in filters for proxy, VPN, Tor, datacenter ranges, and abnormal click frequency. Each filter contributes a weight to the overall risk score.
Custom conditions
Build allow and block rules on country, device, referrer, language, user-agent, and URL parameters using AND/OR logic to match your campaign structure.
IP allow & deny lists
Maintain explicit allowlists for sources you trust — offices, partners, legitimate crawlers — and denylists for known-bad IPs and ranges.
Operations
Advanced settings, analytics, and integrations
Everything you need to run detection day to day and understand what reached your pages.
Advanced settings
Choose the outcome per campaign — block, challenge, or log-only — set risk thresholds, configure retention, and allowlist legitimate search crawlers so SEO is unaffected.
Reports & analytics
See visits, blocked versus allowed, top countries and devices, and which rules triggered most. Clean charts keep your campaign analytics hygiene in check.
Integrations
Add Cloak4U with PHP, WordPress, or JavaScript. Snippets fail open to your normal page if the service is unreachable.
Privacy-first by default
IPs are masked or hashed in the UI, retention is configurable, and Cloak4U never stores passwords, cookies, session contents, or uploaded files. See the privacy policy.
Auditable decisions
Every decision records the outcome, the rule that triggered it, a reason code, a risk score, and a request ID — so you can explain exactly why any visit was handled the way it was.
Crawler-friendly
Legitimate crawlers such as Googlebot can be allowlisted so indexing and search performance are never affected by your traffic-quality rules.
Plans
Features by plan
A quick look at what each plan includes. See the pricing page for current limits and prices.
| Feature | Free | Growth | Scale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bot traffic detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Traffic quality filters | Basic | Full catalog | Full catalog |
| Custom conditions (AND/OR) | — | Yes | Yes |
| IP allow / deny lists | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced settings & thresholds | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| Reports & analytics retention | 7 days | 90 days | 12 months |
| Challenge outcome | — | Yes | Yes |
| Team members | 1 | Up to 5 | Custom |
| Priority support | — | Priority |
Plan contents can change as the product evolves. The pricing page is always the source of truth for current limits, prices, and what is included.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the core features of Cloak4U?
- Cloak4U combines bot traffic detection, click fraud protection, traffic quality filters, custom allow/block conditions, IP allow and deny lists, reports and analytics, and simple integrations. Every visit is scored against transparent rules and each decision is logged with a reason code.
- Do these features hide my page from Google or ad reviewers?
- No. Cloak4U resolves every valid visitor of a campaign to the same approved destination. It blocks, challenges, or logs invalid traffic — it never serves a different page to reviewers than to real users. That practice is deceptive cloaking and is out of scope.
- Can I control how strict the filters are?
- Yes. Filters are weighted and combined into a risk score, and you set the threshold plus the outcome (block, challenge, or log-only) per campaign. Start with recommended defaults, watch your reports, and tighten gradually.
- Which features are available on the free plan?
- The Free plan includes core bot detection, basic traffic quality filters, IP allow/deny lists, and standard reports on a limited request volume. Growth and Scale add custom conditions, advanced settings, longer retention, and higher limits. See the pricing page for the current breakdown.
- What data do these features collect?
- Only the minimal signals needed to score a visit: IP (masked or hashed in the UI), user agent, referrer, path, language, and coarse geo/device. Cloak4U never collects passwords, cookies, session contents, or uploaded files.
- How do I add Cloak4U to my site?
- Add the integration snippet to your landing page using PHP, WordPress, or JavaScript. The snippet collects minimal signals, asks the service for a decision, and fails open to your normal page if the service is unavailable.
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See the features in action
Open the dashboard, protect your first campaign, and watch invalid traffic get blocked with transparent, auditable rules.