Server Logs Expose Fake AdsBot Scrapers Generating Millions of Requests

Server logs from enterprise publishers reveal unauthorized scrapers spoofing the AdsBot user-agent to mass-extract content.

Charlie Whitworth reports the fake agent triggering millions of requests.

Whitworth notes that a single publisher received millions of hits from the spoofed agent despite running zero Google Ads campaigns.

Catching the fraudulent crawler requires raw server logs.