other ai bots
meta-externalads
Operated by Meta · Other AI bots
Meta crawler used for advertising and business product use cases.
When meta-externalads shows up in your logs
Meta fetched your page for an advertising or business product use case.
AI-related bot traffic that does not fit the categories above.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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