Google Ads can spend up to 2x your daily budget. I built a Chrome extension that catches it before it happens.

If you've ever opened Google Ads and noticed your campaign spent way more than the daily budget you set, you're not imagining it. Google's documentation explicitly says they may spend up to twice your daily budget on any given day, evening it out across the month. That's not a bug — it's how their pacing engine has always worked. What changed in March 2026: Google now aggressively targets 100% of your monthly limit — which is 30.4× your daily budget. Even with ad scheduling. So if your campaigns