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PrivacyAwareBot

seo PrivacyAwareBot

PrivacyAware web crawler for privacy analysis

About this crawler

PrivacyAwareBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PrivacyAwareBot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PrivacyAwareBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: PrivacyAwareBot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
PrivacyAwareBot
Pattern
PrivacyAwareBot
Tags
seo
Added
2018/06/28
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PrivacyAwareBot/1.1; +http://www.privacyaware.org)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow PrivacyAwareBot:

User-agent: PrivacyAwareBot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PrivacyAwareBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "PrivacyAwareBot") { return 403; }
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