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PureConsentBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Cookie & tracking technology scanner for GDPR compliance Operated by PureConsent.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is PureConsentBot?

PureConsentBot is a specialized crawler operated by PureConsent, designed to navigate websites to verify the presence and functionality of cookie consent banners. By simulating user interactions, the bot ensures that privacy-related disclosures and user choice mechanisms are correctly implemented according to regulatory standards. It acts as a diagnostic tool for site administrators to maintain transparency and legal compliance regarding user data collection.

Helpful — It assists website owners in verifying that their privacy compliance tools and consent management platforms are functioning correctly.

Identification

Bot name

PureConsentBot

Operator

PureConsent

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

The bot crawls websites to perform automated compliance checks, ensuring that consent management platforms are correctly triggering and capturing user preferences. It accesses public-facing pages to inspect the behavior of scripts and banners, providing reports to site owners on whether their site meets specific privacy requirements. Operators can verify the bot by checking the provided documentation link, which directs to their secure access portal.

Block or allow PureConsentBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for PureConsentBot 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 PureConsentBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: PureConsentBot
Disallow: /

# Allow PureConsentBot full access
User-agent: PureConsentBot
Allow: /