How to block Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2
Operated by Clickagy. Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2 performs advanced ad verification, privacy compliance tracking, and digital advertising intelligence gathering across websites for market analysis and optimization.
nginx
In the server block, then reload.
# In the server block. 403 rather than 444: a closed connection tells the
# operator nothing, and an agent that gets a status code can log it.
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2)") {
return 403;
}
Apache
In .htaccess or the vhost.
BrowserMatchNoCase "Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2" bad_bot
<RequireAll>
Require all granted
Require not env bad_bot
</RequireAll>
Cloudflare
Security → WAF → Custom rules.
# Security → WAF → Custom rules, action: Block (http.user_agent contains "Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2")
WordPress
A child theme's functions.php, or a small plugin.
// functions.php of a child theme, or a small plugin. Runs before WordPress
// builds the page, so a blocked agent costs one PHP process and no queries.
add_action('init', function () {
$agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
foreach (['Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2'] as $needle) {
if (stripos($agent, $needle) !== false) {
status_header(403);
exit('Blocked: Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2');
}
}
});
A rule on the user agent is a rule on a string it chose
The server rules match on a header the requester sets, which stops the agent that says who it is and not the one that copies somebody else's name. Botscope verifies identity against DNS and published address ranges, records which check decided each request, and shows you the ones that lied.