My Disappointing Experience with AdsPect Cloaking Service

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I rarely write reviews, but my experience with AdsPect was so disappointing that I feel obligated to share it and warn others.


I purchased the professional version of AdsPect based on their bold claims about how advanced and effective their cloaking service is. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the worst experience I've ever had with any cloaking provider.


Despite having all my campaigns running properly, I received zero traffic. After investigating, I discovered that all my traffic was being blocked by AdsPect’s own cloaking filters. When I reached out to support, I was shocked by their response — they told me there’s nothing they can do, and their system didn’t even allow me to reduce the filtering aggressiveness or whitelist specific sources.


To make matters worse, I had only used the service for less than 24 hours, and they refused to offer any kind of refund or account rollback, even though the service clearly failed to deliver on its promises.


If you're looking for a cloaking solution that gives you real control and flexibility, I strongly urge you to stay away from AdsPect. It’s overpriced, underperforming, and the support is completely unhelpful.


Don’t waste your money like I did. You deserve a service that actually works and respects its users.
 
I rarely write reviews, but my experience with AdsPect was so disappointing that I feel obligated to share it and warn others.


I purchased the professional version of AdsPect based on their bold claims about how advanced and effective their cloaking service is. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the worst experience I've ever had with any cloaking provider.


Despite having all my campaigns running properly, I received zero traffic. After investigating, I discovered that all my traffic was being blocked by AdsPect’s own cloaking filters. When I reached out to support, I was shocked by their response — they told me there’s nothing they can do, and their system didn’t even allow me to reduce the filtering aggressiveness or whitelist specific sources.


To make matters worse, I had only used the service for less than 24 hours, and they refused to offer any kind of refund or account rollback, even though the service clearly failed to deliver on its promises.


If you're looking for a cloaking solution that gives you real control and flexibility, I strongly urge you to stay away from AdsPect. It’s overpriced, underperforming, and the support is completely unhelpful.


Don’t waste your money like I did. You deserve a service that actually works and respects its users.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s helpful to hear honest feedback like yours. I’m sorry to hear about the issues you faced with AdsPect. Hopefully, your review will guide others in making better decisions.
 
I've been testing several cloakers since Google got more annoying, I got two that I could run the campaigns, but even so it didn't last more than 4 days, I'm studying more professional whitepages and those annoying things, I have a structure in which my employees farm more than 1000 accounts per day, and being without a 100% cloaker is difficult.

I'm putting together a list of the cloakers I've used
 
Of course, call me, it's a time to join all the dots and try to make something that works, I bought more than 5 different cloakers and most of them had bad results
 
The truth is that any cloaker will fail at a certain point. What is extremely annoying in this particular case is that they didn't deliver traffic at all and didn't refund you.
A successful cloaked campaign depends also on GEO. E.g. it's very difficult to cloak on US, lots of IPs and providers, even when relying on strong databases.
It matters a lot what g accounts are being used and lots of other details, starting from OS snd browser so not all campaigns fail because of the cloaker itself.
 
I feel your pain mate but isn't this a configuration issue rather than a product defect?
 
Why at a certain point it will fail ?
As the other forum members already mentioned, there are several reasons for which a cloaked campaign may fall, here are some of them:
A. Account related
1. Payment method(s)
2. Problems related to network or OS/ browser (compromised IP, bad cookies etc)
B. ADS
1. Ads themselves (description etc)
2. Keywords
C. Target URL and landing page
1. Overall poor site
2. Weak white landing page
3. Page total loading time
D. Cloaker and money page
1. Referencing unsafe/ scripts hTML source code
2. Bad traffic filtering
3. Allowing non JavaScript enabled user agents
ETC ETC

PS and, of course, competition reporting your campaign and human inspections of the target URL
 
Experiencing similar high bleed rates with adspect. Poor customer support as well. Any alternatives? No idea how to configure cloakers properly.
 
As the other forum members already mentioned, there are several reasons for which a cloaked campaign may fall, here are some of them:
A. Account related
1. Payment method(s)
2. Problems related to network or OS/ browser (compromised IP, bad cookies etc)
B. ADS
1. Ads themselves (description etc)
2. Keywords
C. Target URL and landing page
1. Overall poor site
2. Weak white landing page
3. Page total loading time
D. Cloaker and money page
1. Referencing unsafe/ scripts hTML source code
2. Bad traffic filtering
3. Allowing non JavaScript enabled user agents
ETC ETC

PS and, of course, competition reporting your campaign and human inspections of the target URL
and is there any cloaker that meets the above criteria?
 
Ouch, that sounds brutal. Did you try disputing the charge with your credit card company? Might be worth a shot.
 
and is there any cloaker that meets the above criteria?
The answer is yes and no.
Cloaking is a game of Cat and Mouse. As we, on our side work, to conceal content they, on their turn, develop strategies to uncover it. G is using machine learning to detect cloaking. FB and G have proprietary browsers, which allows behavioral tracking. As we use residential IPS and similar techniques the same do they.
This is why I recommend to avoid sending HTTP headers, javaScript and similar stuff.
Each cloaking campaign needs a separate traffic analysis, which can be done in low budget test campaigns.
The bottom line: who wants to make real money with cloaking has to be prepared with patience, a few clean advertising accounts and decent domain names (not brand new), then build the things up.
 
I've been testing several cloakers since Google got more annoying, I got two that I could run the campaigns, but even so it didn't last more than 4 days, I'm studying more professional whitepages and those annoying things, I have a structure in which my employees farm more than 1000 accounts per day, and being without a 100% cloaker is difficult.

I'm putting together a list of the cloakers I've used

Did you ever post that list?
 
facebook cloaking is not going to work , it has not implemented google strategies and im fully sure about it .
 
I rarely write reviews, but my experience with AdsPect was so disappointing that I feel obligated to share it and warn others.


I purchased the professional version of AdsPect based on their bold claims about how advanced and effective their cloaking service is. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the worst experience I've ever had with any cloaking provider.


Despite having all my campaigns running properly, I received zero traffic. After investigating, I discovered that all my traffic was being blocked by AdsPect’s own cloaking filters. When I reached out to support, I was shocked by their response — they told me there’s nothing they can do, and their system didn’t even allow me to reduce the filtering aggressiveness or whitelist specific sources.


To make matters worse, I had only used the service for less than 24 hours, and they refused to offer any kind of refund or account rollback, even though the service clearly failed to deliver on its promises.


If you're looking for a cloaking solution that gives you real control and flexibility, I strongly urge you to stay away from AdsPect. It’s overpriced, underperforming, and the support is completely unhelpful.


Don’t waste your money like I did. You deserve a service that actually works and respects its users.

Hello! We've been pointed to this thread by our client who's also a BHW member.

To put it short: pretty much everything in the OP post is false. And is easily verifiable as such in our clients area, just by looking at the streams interface.

First, we DO and have always had (since 2021 I believe) several filtering controls to tune filtering aggressiveness finely:
  1. Filtering Level toggle provides 5 levels: Minimal, Low, Medium, High, and Paranoid. That is exactly the toggle the OP falsely claims as missing. It's been around for years, you can even see it in the historical versions of Adspect Docs on Web Archive.
  2. JS Fingerprinting checkbox: enables or disables JS challenges.
  3. Frame / embed checkbox: enables or disables blocking of frame traffic.
  4. Touchscreen, Accept-Language, and other checkboxes.
Second, we always help clients locate the exact block reasons in our reporting, which often clears up everything.

Third, it would be impossible to make such a strong and dismissive impression of our service in less than 24 hours.

Fourth, a refund is possible within the first 24 hours.

That's all there is to it. Thank you for your attention.
 
Hello! We've been pointed to this thread by our client who's also a BHW member.

To put it short: pretty much everything in the OP post is false. And is easily verifiable as such in our clients area, just by looking at the streams interface.

First, we DO and have always had (since 2021 I believe) several filtering controls to tune filtering aggressiveness finely:
  1. Filtering Level toggle provides 5 levels: Minimal, Low, Medium, High, and Paranoid. That is exactly the toggle the OP falsely claims as missing. It's been around for years, you can even see it in the historical versions of Adspect Docs on Web Archive.
  2. JS Fingerprinting checkbox: enables or disables JS challenges.
  3. Frame / embed checkbox: enables or disables blocking of frame traffic.
  4. Touchscreen, Accept-Language, and other checkboxes.
Second, we always help clients locate the exact block reasons in our reporting, which often clears up everything.

Third, it would be impossible to make such a strong and dismissive impression of our service in less than 24 hours.

Fourth, a refund is possible within the first 24 hours.

That's all there is to it. Thank you for your attention.


Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately your attempt to discredit my review only reinforces the exact issues I described. Let me address your points one by one:

  1. Filtering Level Toggle: Yes, I’m aware of the toggle you mention — the problem is, it didn’t work. Regardless of what level I selected, all traffic was still being blocked. Your system may have these toggles, but if they don’t actually allow traffic through, what’s the point? A fancy UI with no real effect isn’t a feature — it’s a facade.
  2. Support Help: Your “support” told me there was nothing they could do and refused to help me identify block reasons or offer any real solution. If you believe your support team “always helps clients locate exact block reasons,” maybe you should check how they’re actually handling tickets — because that certainly wasn’t my experience.
  3. Timeline: You claim it's impossible to form a strong opinion in 24 hours — maybe with most tools, but when a product blocks 100% of your traffic from the start, it doesn't take a week to realize it's unusable. Especially when you're spending real ad money and getting zero data in return.
  4. Refund Policy: If refunds are possible within the first 24 hours, then explain why was mine rejected after only a few hours of use? I literally asked for a rollback and was denied. So either your team is lying to customers — or you’re lying now.

I shared my honest experience, and instead of accepting responsibility, you're gaslighting your own paying customer. That says everything others need to know.

AdsPect may work for some, but for me — it was a complete failure, both technically and in terms of support. People deserve to know that before they waste their money.
 
Hello! We've been pointed to this thread by our client who's also a BHW member.

To put it short: pretty much everything in the OP post is false. And is easily verifiable as such in our clients area, just by looking at the streams interface.

First, we DO and have always had (since 2021 I believe) several filtering controls to tune filtering aggressiveness finely:
  1. Filtering Level toggle provides 5 levels: Minimal, Low, Medium, High, and Paranoid. That is exactly the toggle the OP falsely claims as missing. It's been around for years, you can even see it in the historical versions of Adspect Docs on Web Archive.
  2. JS Fingerprinting checkbox: enables or disables JS challenges.
  3. Frame / embed checkbox: enables or disables blocking of frame traffic.
  4. Touchscreen, Accept-Language, and other checkboxes.
Second, we always help clients locate the exact block reasons in our reporting, which often clears up everything.

Third, it would be impossible to make such a strong and dismissive impression of our service in less than 24 hours.

Fourth, a refund is possible within the first 24 hours.

That's all there is to it. Thank you for your attention.

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately your attempt to discredit my review only reinforces the exact issues I described. Let me address your points one by one:

  1. Filtering Level Toggle: Yes, I’m aware of the toggle you mention — the problem is, it didn’t work. Regardless of what level I selected, all traffic was still being blocked. Your system may have these toggles, but if they don’t actually allow traffic through, what’s the point? A fancy UI with no real effect isn’t a feature — it’s a facade.
  2. Support Help: Your “support” told me there was nothing they could do and refused to help me identify block reasons or offer any real solution. If you believe your support team “always helps clients locate exact block reasons,” maybe you should check how they’re actually handling tickets — because that certainly wasn’t my experience.
  3. Timeline: You claim it's impossible to form a strong opinion in 24 hours — maybe with most tools, but when a product blocks 100% of your traffic from the start, it doesn't take a week to realize it's unusable. Especially when you're spending real ad money and getting zero data in return.
  4. Refund Policy: If refunds are possible within the first 24 hours, then explain why was mine rejected after only a few hours of use? I literally asked for a rollback and was denied. So either your team is lying to customers — or you’re lying now.

I shared my honest experience, and instead of accepting responsibility, you're gaslighting your own paying customer. That says everything others need to know.

AdsPect may work for some, but for me — it was a complete failure, both technically and in terms of support. People deserve to know that before they waste their money.
You are both posting in the wrong subforum.

Disputes are to be settled here:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/dispute-resolution.31/

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