FairBoard

How pricing and fairness actually work.

Every rank on this board is downstream of two systems: a flat, non-negotiable price per click, and a six-step verification pipeline that a click has to survive before it's ever billed or counted toward rank. Nothing here is an auction, and nothing here is self-reported. The four pricing rules and six fairness guarantees below are the entire mechanism — not a summary of a more complicated system, the actual thing.

Fixed price per click

A flat, platform-set rate — never a bid, never an auction. No maker can outbid another for the same eyeballs.

Prepaid budget

You prepay for an exact click count. Your listing keeps sending traffic until that budget hits zero — never oversold, never surprise-billed.

What's billable

Only real click-throughs to your external URL count. On-site actions — expanding a card, hovering, browsing — are never billable.

Rate limit

One billable click per visitor per listing per day. A cheap, effective backstop against click-fraud.

Server redirect, always

Listings never link straight to your site. Every link routes through our server first — no on-site interaction can ever masquerade as a click.

Real-navigation check

A genuine click produces a real full-page browser navigation. Scripted or bot hits look different and are filtered before they're ever billed.

Referer check

Requests should arrive from our own leaderboard page. A cheap first line of defense against casual scraping.

Visitor dedupe

The same visitor can't inflate a listing's count by clicking repeatedly in one day — dedupe applies per visitor, per listing, per day.

Burst heuristics

Implausibly fast clicks, or a burst across many listings from one source in a short window, get flagged and held — never auto-billed.

Self-click exclusion

We compare a click's fingerprint against the one you used managing your own listing, to block cheap self-inflation.