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>> In less that a day business mandated us to remove the filter.

Did something similar at a small company I was working at. The VP of marketing sat me down and told me to do the same thing.

After the meeting, I was told by another dev that the VP was tying a monetary value to specific clicks and if I was filtering out the bots, it would make his data look bad and reduce the amount of potential revenue for the company he was touting.

I think you can see how the bots were actually helping him promote how awesome a job he was doing with our web properties to the owners.