AdProtektor vs Use Poach in 2026

AdProtektor is for the moment after a paid visitor reaches an advertiser’s site, not for researching the ad that brought them there. It assigns a persistent browser-and-device identity and combines device, behavioural, and network signals to classify visits as Real, Crawler, Bot, Competitor, or Click Farm. A label is an assessment rather than proof of identity or intent. Teams can configure protection per website, set eligible click-frequency rules, inspect flagged-session recordings, whitelist legitimate traffic, manually block or unblock visitors, and export block lists. That review loop makes it useful to an advertiser that needs to handle a specific traffic-quality concern rather than collect creative inspiration.

The delivery workflow is distinct by platform. Eligible Google Ads IPs can be submitted to a connected account or selected campaigns, with a log of submissions that does not change manual exclusions. Eligible Meta visitors are added to a Custom Audience that AdProtektor says it maintains hourly, and the advertiser then applies that audience as a campaign exclusion. Local blocking, audience membership, platform matching, and campaign exclusion are different events. A team should confirm its logs and platform configuration before claiming that a suspicious person was removed from ad delivery.

Standard costs $84 per month for one domain and 5,000 clicks, with seven-day clean-session replay and 30-day fraud evidence. Pro ranges from $120 to $267 per month, adding AI Person Analysis, up to 10 domains, three seats, 30-day replay, 60-day fraud evidence, and 10,000 to 40,000 clicks. Enterprise is $316 to $463 per month. ConversionOS is separately priced at checkout on protection plans, or sold as True Tracking from $39 per month, and can deliver eligible deduplicated events to Meta Pixel and Conversions API, Google Ads, and GA4. The profile does not establish a creative-library or ad-capture workflow.

Use Poach begins after discovery. A researcher finds an individual ad in the public Facebook Ad Library, triggers the extension, and retains that selected example rather than leaving it in a vendor-controlled dashboard. Free saves the ad’s image or video and a screenshot card to local disk. The vendor says the card records the headline, primary text, CTA, advertiser, landing-page URL, dates, and researcher-applied tags, with metadata embedded in the PNG for ExifTool reading. This makes a small, curated creative reference usable even after the original ad is no longer open in the browser.

Pro is not a larger ad-intelligence package. For a one-time $67 lifetime license, it creates a 13-column database in the customer’s own Notion workspace and saves each captured ad as a native row with its screenshot. The workflow supports tags for niche, awareness stage, and lead type, and Use Poach says Notion records are deduplicated. Its privacy policy says the Notion token remains in Chrome extension storage and is sent only to Notion for user-triggered database, save, and upload actions. Captured research therefore stays on the user’s disk or in their Notion workspace rather than becoming a hosted swipe file owned by the vendor.

That narrowness is the product’s honest tradeoff. Use Poach only works from the public Facebook Ad Library and does not publish its own advertiser search, saved-search alerts, automatic competitor monitoring, TikTok or Google Ads coverage, shared team workflows, approvals, reporting, or API. It cannot tell whether a captured ad is profitable or change a campaign. Researchers who already browse the Ad Library and organise work in Notion can get a lot from the fixed price. Teams needing discovery, broad intelligence, or execution should choose another class of software. It is not a substitute for AdProtektor’s traffic-protection workflow.