Title: False bot and basic filter
Last modified: August 24, 2017

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# False bot and basic filter

 *  Resolved [wocmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wocmultimedia/)
 * (@wocmultimedia)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/)
 * Hi,
    I suggest you check new version of the plugin because these things happen:
   1- The On/Off button in Filter > Profiling> Ignore bots it’s weird because clicking
   on **On** it shows off greyed while it works as being deactivated 2- I got a 
   strange report bloated with bots while never happen before, I had to contact 
   the provider who made tests to discover that such filter was not working correctly.
   We had to add /robots.txt on the field below while before it wasn’t needed at
   all since I began using the plugin 3 years ago. 3- Of these bots there are some
   false because this is the report from the provider “We suggest that you contact
   the developer as one of the ips reported as bot 89.46.105.158 is the internal
   server ip and not a search engine”
 * I wish it can be helpful to you

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/#post-9438513)
 * Hi,
 * “The On/Off button in Filter > Profiling> Ignore bots it’s weird because clicking
   on On it shows off greyed while it works as being deactivated”
 * Are you using a language different from English? In the English version, Ignore
   Bots is “greyed out” when the option is set to “Off”, not viceversa.
 * As for #2, make sure the option is enabled.
 * As for #3, Slimstat will not use the IP Address to determine if a visitor is 
   a bot or not. Browscap, our third-party data library, will be used to determine
   that value. You may want to open a ticket at browscap.org to let them know that
   there’s a false positive in their database.
 * Best,
    Jason
 *  Thread Starter [wocmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wocmultimedia/)
 * (@wocmultimedia)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/#post-9440232)
 * Hi
    1- it happens in any of my sites some multilingual other only english I will
   add a screenshot so you can understand
 * 3- There’s an alternative to browsecap?
 *  Thread Starter [wocmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wocmultimedia/)
 * (@wocmultimedia)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/#post-9440260)
 * these are two screenshots [Active](http://www.laplandinteractive.com/repository/greyedSwitcher.jpg)
   
   [not active](http://www.laplandinteractive.com/repository/greyedSwitcher2.jpg)
 * it doesn’t work like a true switcher IMHO
 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/#post-9441168)
 * [@wocmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wocmultimedia/) thank you
   for your feedback about the UX. We’ll keep it in mind, and if other people complain
   about this specific aspect, we’ll work on an alternative.
 * As for not using Browscap: yes, you can uninstall it using the corresponding 
   button in the Maintenance tab. Slimstat will then use its built-in heuristic 
   algorithm to determine if a visitor is a bot or not.
 * Best,
    Jason
 *  Thread Starter [wocmultimedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wocmultimedia/)
 * (@wocmultimedia)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/#post-9441329)
 * Hi Jason,
 * If you take a common home switcher you click or turn the ON part to activate 
   it. Here you have to click the Off side, that’s really weird and got in trap 
   for this reason.
 * Thanks for taking car of this aspect too.
    Best,
 * Angelo
 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-bot-and-basic-filter/#post-9444913)
 * Thank you, Angelo.

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