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network scrubbed my traffic data after i complained about tracking

Started 05 Oct 2026 · 13:18 · 5 replies · 478 views

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old_growth_seo

Senior Member

05 Oct 2026 · 13:18#1

Back in 2014 if a network scrubbed your data, you called them out and they fixed it. Now they just delete the evidence.

I noticed my conversion rate on AdWork Media dropped by 40% overnight. Same traffic, same offer, same landing page. Asked support for a breakdown of the traffic data, and they said the logs were 'corrupted' and no longer available.

The dashboard still shows the data, but when I asked for the raw logs to investigate, suddenly they don't exist. This is the kind of thing that would have gotten a network blacklisted in the old days.

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Ravenstack

Senior Member

05 Oct 2026 · 13:35↑ replying to #1#2

Do you have screenshots of the dashboard before the drop?

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old_growth_seo

Senior Member

05 Oct 2026 · 13:52↑ replying to #2#3

I do — took them as soon as I noticed the drop. But screenshots don't prove scrubbing, they just prove the dashboard changed.

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MetricsOverMagic

Senior Member

05 Oct 2026 · 14:08↑ replying to #1#4

Ran a test with AdWork Media last year.

Traffic Conversions Network tracking My tracking Discrepancy
12,400 84 84 112 25%

They were undercounting by about 25% on my end. The discrepancy was consistent across three offers, which suggests a systematic issue rather than random scrubbing.

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cashflowkid

Member

05 Oct 2026 · 14:25↑ replying to #1#5

This is why I always run my own tracking! I had the same thing happen to me last year but I caught it because I was using voluum

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grindstone

Senior Member

05 Oct 2026 · 14:42↑ replying to #1#6

never trust network tracking

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