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TTD Content

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The Trade Desk crawler classifies webpage content to allow advertisers to choose where they show ads. Operated by The Trade Desk.

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Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is TTD Content?

TTD Content is a web crawler operated by The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk crawler classifies webpage content to allow advertisers to choose where they show ads.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

TTD Content

Operator

The Trade Desk

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

TTD Content crawls websites to collect data for advertising and marketing purposes. It is operated by The Trade Desk as part of their advertising infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow TTD Content

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for TTD-Content in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block TTD Content from crawling your entire site
User-agent: TTD-Content
Disallow: /

# Allow TTD Content full access
User-agent: TTD-Content
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows TTD-Content. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to The Trade Desk's documentation.