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Unknown Bot Is Still a Bot

We found a routing defect with a simple but costly assumption: a bot was only persisted as a bot when the detector could also name its signature.

That meant generic automation could fall through into human events.

The fix was tiny: route on isBot, then use an explicit “unknown bot” identity when the signature is absent. The important part was the regression proof around the route.

Data quality often improves when a system is allowed to say “unknown.”

https://webmasterid.com/bot-intelligence

dataquality #typescript #analytics #testing

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