Yahoo Ad Monitoring

Listed only

Page-fetch client that retrieves the landing pages of URLs listed with Yahoo advertising services. Yahoo documents that it fetches each advertiser-supplied landing page to check policy compliance and to improve the accuracy of the ad listing, and that it uses separate desktop and mobile user agents.

Operated by Yahoo · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexYahoo Ad [Mm]onitoring
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Ad monitoring; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-ad-monitoring-SLN24857.html)
observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo Ad Monitoring https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-ad-monitoring-SLN24857.html) <YahooInternalTag>

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
Respects robots.txt
Does not honor robots.txt
Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.