CookieMaestro is a bot in the security scanners category, operated by Cookie Maestro.
Within the GDPR legislation it is mandatory to ask a visitor for permission before placing so-called marketing or tracking cookies. Many websites contain a cookie notice, but what is not clear to everyone is that those cookies may not be placed before the visitor has given explicit permission. Cookie Maestro searches for all cookies that your website places in your visitors browser.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
CookieMaestro identifies itself with this user agent string:
cookie-maestroAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
CookieMaestro follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: cookie-maestro Disallow: /
User-agent: cookie-maestro Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: cookie-maestro Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: cookie-maestro Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: cookie-maestro group, CookieMaestro ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.cookie-maestro from CookieMaestro's user agent; check Cookie Maestro's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow CookieMaestro if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersCookieMaestro is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow CookieMaestro only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf CookieMaestro is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows CookieMaestro by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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CookieMaestro is a bot in the security scanners category, operated by Cookie Maestro. Within the GDPR legislation it is mandatory to ask a visitor for permission before placing so-called marketing or tracking cookies. Many websites contain a cookie notice, but what is not clear to everyone is that those cookies may not be placed before the visitor has given explicit permission. Cookie Maestro searches for all cookies that your website places in your visitors browser.
Yes. CookieMaestro follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the cookie-maestro user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: cookie-maestro" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "cookie-maestro" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so CookieMaestro may not follow it, and anyone can send CookieMaestro's user agent, so a fake CookieMaestro ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Security scanners probe sites for vulnerabilities, certificates and exposed services. Some are research projects, some are vendors you hired. Allow your own scanners and block the rest at the WAF.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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