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ContextAd Bot

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ContextAd web crawler for advertising

About this crawler

ContextAd Bot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ContextAd Bot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ContextAd Bot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: ContextAd Bot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
ContextAd Bot
Pattern
ContextAd Bot
Tags
advertising
Added
2018/06/27
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0;.NET CLR 1.0.3705; ContextAd Bot 1.0)
ContextAd Bot 1.0

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow ContextAd Bot:

User-agent: ContextAd Bot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ContextAd Bot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "ContextAd Bot") { return 403; }
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