Bot Intelligence Record

Yahoo Ad Monitoring

Yahoo Ad Monitor monitors the contents of webpages where Yahoo! ads are served.

Yahoo Ad monitoring
OperatorYahoo
FamilyYahoo
Typemonitoring
Riskneutral
Blockdepends
Verified1
Verification Guidance

User-agent strings can be copied. Use this record for identification, logging, filtering, and review. For allow lists or low-friction rules, pair the identifier with operator documentation, reverse DNS, IP ranges, request signatures, or another verification method when available.

Identification

User-Agent: Yahoo Ad monitoring

HTTP Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Ad monitoring; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-ad-monitoring-SLN24857.html) yahoo.adquality.lwd.desktop/1565637561-0

Aliases: Yahoo Ad monitoring

Robots Token: Yahoo Ad monitoring

Purpose: monitoring

Identity: verified-bot

Handling

Common Use: Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.

Detection Notes: Match `Yahoo Ad monitoring` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Use bot_http_agent for full user-agent examples when the client sends a longer browser-like string. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.

Risk: neutral

Should Block: depends

Respects Robots: no

Rules

Block Snippet

User-agent: Yahoo Ad monitoring Disallow: /

Sources

Source

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