u/Soveltd

Running a small traffic campaign targeting creator subreddits (SaaS for YouTubers). CTR looks fine, but the analytics tell a different story:

• Nearly every click with an rdt_cid is Android mobile
• Zero interaction, no scroll, no clicks, no navigation. Ever.
• Session durations of 20 minutes to 4 hours on a single landing page with no input events
• Tens of thousands of recorded events per session (page sits open forever, animations keep the recorder busy) Traffic from other channels on the same page behaves completely normally, so it's not a tracking issue on my end.

My working theory: a mix of click farms and Reddit's in-app webview keeping pages alive in the background. I've filed an invalid-traffic ticket with screenshots.

Questions for people who've dealt with this:

1. Did Reddit actually refund you for invalid traffic, and what evidence did they accept?
2. Does excluding Android (or going iOS/desktop only) meaningfully clean this up?
3. Any placement/targeting settings that reduce this, feed only, specific communities vs. interest targeting? Happy to share anonymized session data if anyone wants to compare patterns.