mercurynews.com
As of Nov 9, 2026, mercurynews.com's ads.txt lists 904 seller lines across 139 ad systems, its robots.txt blocks GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, and 14 more, and its DMARC policy is quarantine.
Checked daily since Oct 31, 2026. JSON. Link to this check. Run this site? Remove or correct this report.
Checked Nov 9, 2026, 22:00 UTC
| File | Status | What the robot saw | Same since |
|---|---|---|---|
| ads.txt | SUCCESS | 904 seller lines, 139 ad systems. | 2026-11-03 |
| app-ads.txt | SUCCESS | 904 seller lines, 139 ad systems. | 2026-11-03, first check |
| sellers.json | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. 155 lines have no matching seller at adapex.io, adswizz.com, adtarget.com.tr, advertising.com, and 34 more. Evidence 296 lines not judged: the ad system's sellers.json could not be read. | 2026-11-05, first check |
| robots.txt | SUCCESS | 18 rules for 18 AI crawlers. Blocks GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, and 14 more. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| llms.txt | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| DMARC | SUCCESS | p=quarantine, pct=20. Reports off. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| MTA-STS | NOT_FOUND | No MTA-STS record. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| BIMI | NOT_FOUND | No BIMI record. | 2026-11-06, first check |
| security.txt | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. | 2026-11-06, first check |
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