About this bot
Yahoo Ad Monitoring is a landing page fetcher associated with Yahoo and used for ad landing page policy and accuracy checking.
Primary directory identity signal: Yahoo Ad Monitoring. Representative HTTP identity: Desktop and mobile browser-style agents containing `Yahoo Ad Monitoring` / `Yahoo Ad monitoring`, plus a Yahoo internal tracking tag.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt is not recorded as a reliable control for this traffic. Use request authentication, application controls, firewall policy, or service configuration when restriction is required.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling is to generally allow or monitor rather than block by identity alone.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Yahoo Ad MonitoringDesktop and mobile browser-style agents containing `Yahoo Ad Monitoring` / `Yahoo Ad monitoring`, plus a Yahoo internal tracking tag - Also known as
- Yahoo Ad monitoring Yahoo Ad monitoring (mobile casing)
Details
- Kind
- Landing page fetcher
- Family
- Yahoo
- Purpose
- Ad landing page policy and accuracy checking
- Common Use
- Fetching ad landing pages to verify policy compliance, page accuracy, and the user experience associated with Yahoo ad listings.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the Yahoo Ad Monitoring marker in the documented desktop/mobile agents and corroborate with ad-submission/request context when trust is required.
- Detection Notes
- The requests are driven by landing pages referenced in submitted Yahoo advertising; this is not a general website crawler.
Website controls
- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Yahoo Ad Monitoring" botcrawl_match=1- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Yahoo\ Ad\ Monitoring") { set $botcrawl_match 1; }