Glossary · Fraud
Click hijacking— what it means in affiliate marketing
Intercepting another advertiser's click and substituting your own tracking so the conversion is attributed to you.
The user never notices anything, and the defrauded party is the other affiliate rather than the advertiser. It survives on last-click attribution.
Related terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Click fraud | Generating clicks artificially — by bots, farms or scripts — to drain a budget or to earn click-based payouts. |
| Click injection | Android fraud where a malicious app detects an install in progress and fires a click just before it finishes, claiming the attribution. |
Entry updated 29 July 2026. All 276 terms in one page.
