May 8
Privacy Extensions Trigger False Bot Detection
I have found that onedollarstats's internal bot detection prevents events being sent when a browser has common privacy extensions installed like Duck Duck Go privacy essentials.
This is true even when my same site sends analytics properly to PostHog. I dug into it and narrowed down the cause to ODS' bot detection.
Details:
**Proposed Solution**
Add an SDK option to disable or relax bot/lies detection, or change detection so privacy-extension API patches alone do not suppress events from otherwise normal browsers.
**Expected Behavior**
The NPM SDK should still track normal human users when common privacy/adblock extensions patch browser APIs, or provide a config option to relax/disable bot detection.
**Actual Behavior**
In normal Chrome with privacy/adblock extensions, patched canvas APIs trigger `detectLies()`:
```txt
toDataURL: custom toString
fillText: custom toString
liesDetected: 2
hasProxy: true
botKind: "unknown_bot"
```
The SDK then suppresses all events, including in my own real browser. The same site’s PostHog analytics still work in this browser, and OneDollarStats works in incognito.
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