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>>ColinW+(OP)
> In general, bots are pretty easy to exclude. They usually advertise themselves by a user agent string. Yes, that can be faked – but it seems highly unlikely that bots using faked user agents create such a large number of impressions that Google has to use this route against them.

Is this serious?

>>lrem+CH
Someone needs to tell the tens of thousands of employees working in the abuse protection space about the user agent string!