Cookiebot

Last updated 9 hours ago.

What is Cookiebot?

About

Cookiebot is an uncategorized agent. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Cookiebot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Type

Uncategorized
Not currently assigned a type

Expected Behavior

Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.

Agent Analytics

Visits to Your Website

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Top Websites

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Cookiebot?

It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.

How Do I Block Cookiebot?

You can block Cookiebot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent Token Description
Cookiebot Should match instances of Cookiebot
# robots.txt
# This should block Cookiebot

User-agent: Cookiebot
Disallow: /

Recommended Solution

Instead of doing this manually, use automatic robots.txt to keep your rules updated with the latest AI scrapers, crawlers, and assistants automatically.