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Criteo bots and crawlers
Criteo runs a commerce media and retargeting advertising platform.
Criteo bots at a glance
- Criteo runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Ads and Platform Fetchers.
- Each Criteo bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.criteo.com
Every Criteo bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CriteoBot | Ads and Platform Fetchers | AdsReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Criteo bots
The rules below name every Criteo token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Criteo bots
User-agent: CriteoBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Criteo bots
User-agent: CriteoBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Criteo bots out of private areas only
User-agent: CriteoBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Criteo bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(CriteoBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Criteo bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (CriteoBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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