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Usercentricsbot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Consent management platform scanner for GDPR/DMA/CCPA compliance. Operated by Usercentrics GmbH.

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GoodBot

Assessment

Security

What is Usercentricsbot?

Usercentricsbot is a specialized security and compliance tool operated by Usercentrics GmbH. It functions as part of their 'DPS Scanner' service, which monitors websites to detect third-party data processing services, such as analytics or marketing pixels. By identifying these services, the bot helps website administrators ensure that all active tracking technologies are correctly declared and managed within their Consent Management Platform (CMP), thereby reducing the risk of regulatory non-compliance.

Helpful — It assists website owners in maintaining GDPR compliance by identifying unauthorized or unlisted third-party tracking technologies.

Identification

Bot name

Usercentricsbot

Operator

Usercentrics GmbH

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 audits of third-party requests triggered during user sessions. It maps these requests against a database of known data processing services to identify gaps where technologies might be running without user consent. This process is essential for organizations to maintain transparency and legal compliance, as it alerts them to shadow IT or unauthorized tracking tools implemented by various departments or agencies.

Block or allow Usercentricsbot

Block it

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

# Allow Usercentricsbot full access
User-agent: Usercentrics
Allow: /