Negate ‑ Bot Protection
Avoid inflated analytics and marketing fraud by blocking bots.
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March 9, 2026
I got this app specifically to block payment attempts from card testers. After installing it, I get an email stating this here: "Can Negate block payment attempts from card testers? Yes, please use our custom rules for checkout. These are not turned on by default. Be sure to read the documentation on how to turn it on for the first time. Note that an abandoned cart will still be made and it is advisable to pair custom rules for checkout with a shopify flow to then clean out the abandoned checkouts automatically." None of this is actually true. These abandoned cart bots use a URL which you as a merchant have no control over - you cannot even run any Javascript on this URL or choose what it does - hence the bot blocking apps in the app store offering zero protection against this. What makes me really mad about this, is that they claim they can. Furthermore I ran a comparison between the bot order attempts and their list and the bots show up as "human". And when I asked about help with this, they didn't even bother replying. deleted.
Sept. 28, 2025
The app was also blocking ad crawlers, which made our ad cost tripled. Doesn't seem that the app is blocking the right bots and it has cause more damage than helping.
Negate does not block legitimate crawlers of any type. Useragents can be altered, and malicious actors know this. Many malicious bots will have their useragent tampered with to match that of a legitimate crawler in hopes of getting past your security. That's why Negate uses Google's official documentation to validate their crawlers which involves running a reverse DNS lookup on the accessing IP, verifying the domain, running a forward DNS lookup on the domain, and finally verifying that it's the same as the original accessing IP. We follow the guidelines provided by each markting platform to verify their crawlers. This is outlined within our documentation under our FAQ's. If you have 100's of "google bots" per day, then you absolutely need to be looking further than the useragent. Additionally when click fraud occurs, ad costs go up - which may be why you are seeing an increase in ad spend. It takes time to clean out your pixel from the bad traffic that occurs in those situations (generally pixels hold onto past data for 90-180 days). So if you believe click fraud is happening then it's important to have a good bot protection service. Best of luck in your future endeavors. Negate Support Team
Feb. 5, 2024
Didn't work for me support was answering in the beginning but stopped. Your better off just getting a program that blocks IP'S like IP Block.