>> In less that a day business mandated us to remove the filter.
Did something similar at a small company I was working at. The VP of marketing sat me down and told me to do the same thing.
After the meeting, I was told by another dev that the VP was tying a monetary value to specific clicks and if I was filtering out the bots, it would make his data look bad and reduce the amount of potential revenue for the company he was touting.
I think you can see how the bots were actually helping him promote how awesome a job he was doing with our web properties to the owners.
Did something similar at a small company I was working at. The VP of marketing sat me down and told me to do the same thing.
After the meeting, I was told by another dev that the VP was tying a monetary value to specific clicks and if I was filtering out the bots, it would make his data look bad and reduce the amount of potential revenue for the company he was touting.
I think you can see how the bots were actually helping him promote how awesome a job he was doing with our web properties to the owners.