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adidxbot — What It Is and How to Handle It

adidxbot is Microsoft's Bing Ads crawler that monitors ads and follows ad destination websites for quality control to ensure advertising standards and policy compliance.

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Centinel Analytica · April 10, 2026

adidxbot is Microsoft's Bing Ads crawler that monitors ads and follows ad destination websites for quality control to ensure advertising standards and policy compliance.

Operator: Microsoft | Type: Monitoring | Category: Monitoring

adidxbot is classified as monitoring. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects adidxbot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.

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