Every auto-apply tool I have taken apart marks an application "sent" at the same moment: the instant it dispatches the click. That is a read-back of our own input, and it is the weakest signal in the whole pipeline. The four signals that look like proof and are not I shipped all four of these at some point and had to take them back out. 1. Our own click. The submit button was pressed. Nothing about that tells you a request left the browser, or that the server accepted...