Automatic Data Processing Service blocking – Usercentrics Support - EN

This feature is exclusive to the Essential, Plus, Pro, and Business plans.

About the Auto Blocking feature

The Auto Blocking feature prevents data processing services from loading prior consent without the need for manually marking up resources (scripts, images, iframes, etc.) on a website.

This makes it more convenient to ensure services only load when consent is given and allows you to control services that you're unable to manually mark up.

Combined with the Auto Population feature, this feature fully automates the process of ensuring that Data Processing Services won't load without consent.

How the Auto Blocking feature works

The scanner crawls through the website and identifies all third-party services loaded on the website.
The results of the scan are used to generate a configuration file which will serve as instructions for the Auto Blocking feature which technologies to block and how to identify the resources that load them.

The configuration file is updated after every scan and the most up-to-date information is applied when Auto Blocking is enabled on the website.

Implementation

Auto Blocking is available for paid subscribers and can be implemented by adding a script, which can be copied from the Usercentrics Admin and subsequently added to the website template along with the main Usercentrics CMP script.

With Auto Blocking selected, the following scripts (Auto Blocking and CMP) will be available to be copied and pasted:

<script src="https://web.cmp.usercentrics.eu/modules/autoblocker.js"></script>
<script
  id="usercentrics-cmp"
  src="https://web.cmp.usercentrics.eu/ui/loader.js"
  data-settings-id="XXXXXXX"
  async
></script>

For best results, perform the implementation of the auto blocker in the following order:

Add the domain that should make use of the auto blocker to the configuration.
Allow a scan of the domain to complete.
Add services detected during the scan to your configuration.
Implement the autoblocker.js script to the website.

If you’ve used an older version of the Auto Blocking script, please make sure that you trigger a new scan to ensure that the Auto Blocker configuration is up-to-date.

Manual mapping

The Auto Blocking feature may not block all technologies present on your website. This is due to the scanner not being able to connect our current Data Processing Services for all detected third-party requests.
These services will subsequently be listed as “unknown”.

For the auto blocking feature to be able to block "unknown" third party requests you can follow the steps outlined in this guide.

You can also choose to ignore the service using the Ignore link in cases where the service was already added to the configuration, or if you don't want it to be listed on the consent banner and/or potentially blocked by the auto blocking feature.

Request the addition of a service to our DPS repository

If you would like a Data Processing Service to be added to our repository, you can follow these instructions:

Contact Usercentrics support with a mapping request for the unknown service.
Please be sure to provide the request URL (listed under the Domain column), and if possible the name and a purpose description.
Usercentrics will then automatically map the unknown service to a DPS.
Please keep in mind that these requests may take a while to process.
Once confirmed, the service can be mapped to a predefined service which will enable autoblocking.