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Trackjs: ignore rules by token in user agent

In TrackJS, some user agents are parsed as normal browsers, e.g.:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SM-G930V Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.125 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943)

Chrome Mobile 59.0.3071

I tried to do it by ignore rules in settings, but it doesn't work. So I need to filtrate errors by token in user agent.

Is it possible do this without JS?

More similar user agents: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/overview-google-crawlers

Solution

  • The TrackJS UI doesn't allow you to create Ignore Rules against the raw UserAgent, only the parsed browser and operating system. Instead, use the client-side ignore capability with the onError function.

    Build your function to detect the tokens you want to exclude, and return false from the function if you don't want it to be sent.