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Yesterday I set up Firebase analytics and crash reporting with custom logs in my app. I published that apk to Play Store alpha testing and downloaded it from my two devices.
Now, about 12 hours later, I see my custom events in the dashboard but most of the traffic seems to be coming from the USA instead of Serbia, where I'm located (5.5% - 94.5%).
Obviously, this is caused by the bot traffic from Google Play, I've had this issue before when using the Google Analytics, and it was easy to overcome because it had the "Bot filtering" option.
I can't seem to find any similar setting in the Firebase console, and also this traffic wasn't visible in the Fabric Crashlytics/Answers.
Are there any solutions to this issue? Google search doesn't help.
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Exclude Known Bot Traffic All you need to do is go to Google Analytics and click on the 'Admin' cog in the bottom left hand corner. Go to 'View Settings' and tick the checkbox that says 'Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders'.
The easiest way to keep bot traffic out of your Analytics reports is to use Google's automatic filter. To set up this filter, go to your view settings and check the box that says “Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders.”
In Google Analytics 4 properties, traffic from known bots and spiders is automatically excluded. This ensures that your Analytics data, to the extent possible, does not include events from known bots.
By far the easiest way is to go to View Settings in the Admin section and simply check the “exclude all hits from known bots and spiders” option. NOTE: Checking this option will only remove bots from new data starting from the point the box is checked onward.
Unfortunately, Firebase Analytics doesn't currently have this "Bot filtering" option. The team is aware of the issue and it's something they would like to address, but I don't have any timeline for a fix at this time. Sorry!
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