Human / bot detection is a lie

  • Hello.
    I just thought you should know that the little circle in live traffic (green for human, gray for bot) is very false :). Basically all my users including me are shown as bots. Very few have the privilege to be detected as humans. And trust me, they are not bots (most of them at least).
    Regards.

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  • Hi @nnikolov,

    The bot detection system uses JavaScript events that occur on the page in order to classify a user as a human or a bot.

    A user might be wrongly detected as a bot when, for example: have JavaScript disabled, or be on a browser that does not send page-click events.

    This has been brought up in the past, and there is a ticket open related to this topic.

    Dave

    Thread Starter Nikolay Nikolov

    (@nnikolov)

    Hi Dave. I use the latest Mozilla Firefox on Windows 10 with JavaScript enabled and still shows me as a bot.

    It’s a flawed system. My solution is to just ignore the Wordfence “bot” clutter. The mystery is why they include something that clearly doesn’t work. Seems odd when you think about it, as Wordfence is otherwise pretty together. MTN

    Hi again,

    It does seem to have quite a bit of false positives, so you can ignore the bot/human detection.

    I can’t say for certain, but how bots/humans are detected has been a feature the team has been looking into revamping.

    Dave

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