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Adds a note to the List of known Bots setting in the configuration documentation explaining that Mautic automatically detects common bots using the Matomo device-detector library, which improves Email and page tracking statistics accuracy without requiring additional user configuration.

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Add a note to the List of known Bots setting explaining that Mautic
also automatically detects common bots using the Matomo device-detector
library, improving Email and page tracking accuracy without requiring
additional configuration.
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* **List of known Bots** - Mautic has the feature to identify and turn-off tracking for several known bots. To track activity from those bots, remove them from this list. To turn off tracking for other bots, add them here - one per line.

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PR #15870 integrates the Matomo DeviceDetectorFactory into BotRatioHelper.php, adding isBotByMatomoDetector() method that automatically identifies known bots like Googlebot, Bingbot, AhrefsBot, Facebookbot, Twitterbot, and LinkedInBot before falling back to the user-configurable blocklist.

Source: mautic/mautic#15870

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