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Best answer by Anil_Umachigi

@joseph_making You could use userAgent string to check for bot patterns to begin with. 

Also check if there are any third party libraries which help make this easier for you. 

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tidalcodeAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
April 21, 2023

Hi JosephH1,

Yes, there is an equivalent solution for AEP. Adobe Experience Platform Query Service can be used to maintain your data quality by broadly removing data contamination that results from bots interacting with your website. The below URL should give you some further context.

 

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-platform/query/use-cases/bot-filtering.html?lang=en

 

Please let us know if there's anything further that we can help with.

Casey

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    Joseph_MakingAuthor
    Level 2
    April 23, 2023

    This is helpful, thank you. However I'm looking more to block the traffic within Analytics for the implementation that uses the AEP SDK. Do you have any recommendations? 

      Anil_Umachigi
      Adobe Employee
      Anil_UmachigiAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      April 22, 2023

      @joseph_making Although query service is one of the option, but i would highly suggest do bit of blocking within the client this will ensure no bot traffic event is sent at all. 

      This also helps you reduce the count and thus reduce billing if it is high traffic site. 

       

      I would suggest to include a custom script within "onBeforeEventSend" config option in Launch webSDK extension

       

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        Joseph_MakingAuthor
        Level 2
        April 23, 2023

        I didn't consider this, but I like the idea 🙂 Do you have any recommendations of what conditions to check for within my isABot function? 

        Anil_Umachigi
        Adobe Employee
        Anil_UmachigiAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
        Adobe Employee
        April 23, 2023

        @joseph_making You could use userAgent string to check for bot patterns to begin with. 

        Also check if there are any third party libraries which help make this easier for you. 

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