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Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by MartinCron on Monday July 30, 2012 @07:02PM (#4315152)
This is entirely honor system, though. All of the user-agent checking has to be layered with the other bot-removal techniques. Malicious users will always fake user agent strings.
Re:Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% o... by tripzilch on Monday July 30, 2012 @07:39PM (#4315266)
Of course. But you also need to make sure you don't accidentally count the non-malicious bots that have known UA strings but just happen to crawl all over the place, including ads.

I mean it's a good (and cheap) first pass to throw out quite a number of true positives.