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Excluded User Agent still tracked

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#7,978 opened on May 23, 2015

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Description

I had configured the following string under the Websites -> Global list of user agents to exclude:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0"

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It belongs to the Monitor.us service.

Yet later I still saw that bot in the Real-time Visitors:

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Do I maybe need to add the user agent string without quotes? By the way, there's no explanation of the format in which UA strings should be entered in that box. Presumably, one per line, but who knows? CSV format? Quoted or not?

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Trace the user agent exclusion logic in the Matomo codebase. Look at how the global exclusion list is parsed and applied to incoming requests. Identify why a correctly entered user agent string might still be tracked.
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