Hello! I face with severe bot traffic problem, which is comes from directly Facebook ads. Is X Device Bot feature is safe to use on Facebook CAPI tags, especially on preview tag? It will affect the tracking? If X Device Bot attachable without any harm, should I use some bot filtering on client side (pixel) too?
You can use this for any platform, including Meta.
To block events on a web container, you will need to use this method: Send dataLayer push from server GTM to web GTM - Stape
Thank you! I tested on the server on Facebook preview capi tag, I found it very effective. But smarter bots (atc bots) are still there. I’m a little bit afraid to use X bot on the client side, because the pixel tags are so sensitive, I tried some other available bot filter variables on the preview pixel tag, but these made much more mess, than the bots. Currently I test the X Geo on server next to Xbot, I made a filter on my country. I hope it will helps, Meta ads are now a bot minefield.
Hello Alex! Tried to set up sending x-device bot data, through data tag, and response tag, but I failed 
So, can you help me? I made the Data Client on server, and I have the Response tag too. On web I have Data Tag. I got the datalayer push on web, but I can’t found the datas what I want to send back (like, xbot and in my case visitor region, or x-geo-country).
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Make sure Data Client is set to return empty response as step 4 in the article suggests.
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Please share your response tag config with us, a screenshot would be great
Hello Dan! Thank you! After setting the Data Client empty and submitted the cointainers, it works perfectly. Finally, I could make a custom trigger for server_response and the x-device-bot and the x-geo-country, and this working fine too. I hope Facebook pageview tag won’t be nasty on tracking. And I hope bots go away as well.
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