Your Django Site Can Get Banned for Ad Fraud You Didn’t Commit | HackerNoon

Ad networks don’t investigate intent — they react to patterns. This article describes a real incident where a Django-based content site nearly faced an ad network ban due to abnormal ad impression behavior that resembled invalid traffic. Instead of blocking users or traffic, the solution was to temporarily suppress ads for suspicious viewers at the application level. By throttling impressions per viewer and page, the site reduced enforcement risk without affecting legitimate users or analytics.