Why doesn't the Smart Data Protector block all scripts on a website?

With our Smart Data Protector, you can easily block a list of data processing services. The full list of supported technologies can be found here.

Nevertheless, we do not block ALL scripts on a website automatically with it. Here are the reasons for that:

• Usercentrics works directly on a data processing service level. We do not block cookies but the service that may then set them. If we simply block all scripts by default, we will not be able to tell which script belongs to which data processing service.

• If we blocked all scripts, this would most likely break your website. To prevent that, we block each data processing service individually and also give you the option to decide for each single service whether or not it should be accepted by default.

• For visual services like YouTube, Google Maps, and others, we show an overlay with legal content that’s relevant for this specific service. This would not be possible when blocking everything that we find on your website.

• Further, you can decide for each supported service whether or not it should be blocked by the Smart Data Protector.