diff --git a/core/docs/changelog/WCM-498.change b/core/docs/changelog/WCM-498.change
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ede20c23a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/docs/changelog/WCM-498.change
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+WCM-498: WCM-489: add functionality to ignore uniqueids on publish
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/src/zeit/workflow/publish_3rdparty.py b/core/src/zeit/workflow/publish_3rdparty.py
index c8d58e4886..63243920c8 100644
--- a/core/src/zeit/workflow/publish_3rdparty.py
+++ b/core/src/zeit/workflow/publish_3rdparty.py
@@ -249,9 +249,10 @@ class IgnoreMixin:
 
     #: map article attributes to settings
     attr_setting_mapping = {
-        'genre': 'genres',
-        'template': 'templates',
-        'ressort': 'ressorts',
+        'genre': ('genres', zeit.content.article.interfaces.IArticleMetadata),
+        'template': ('templates', zeit.content.article.interfaces.IArticleMetadata),
+        'ressort': ('ressorts', zeit.cms.content.interfaces.ICommonMetadata),
+        'uniqueId': ('uniqueids', zeit.cms.interfaces.ICMSContent),
     }
 
     @property
@@ -260,15 +261,21 @@ def name(self):
         return self.__class__.__dict__['grokcore.component.directive.name']
 
     def ignore(self, method):
-        if self.context.product and self.context.product.is_news:
+        if (
+            zeit.cms.content.interfaces.ICommonMetadata.providedBy(self.context)
+            and self.context.product
+            and self.context.product.is_news
+        ):
             return True
         if method == 'publish':
             for attribute, setting in self.attr_setting_mapping.items():
-                if self.is_on_ignorelist(attribute, setting):
+                if self.is_on_ignorelist(attribute, *setting):
                     return True
         return False
 
-    def is_on_ignorelist(self, attribute, setting):
+    def is_on_ignorelist(self, attribute, setting, interface):
+        if not interface.providedBy(self.context):
+            return False
         ignore_list = (
             zeit.cms.config.get('zeit.workflow', f'{self.name}-ignore-{setting}', '')
             .lower()
@@ -437,8 +444,8 @@ class CenterPageIndexNow(grok.Adapter, IndexNowMixin):
     grok.name('indexnow')
 
 
-class DataScienceMixin(PropertiesMixin):
-    def publish_json(self):
+class DataScienceMixin(PropertiesMixin, IgnoreMixin):
+    def _json(self):
         if self.properties is None:
             return None
         return {
@@ -446,9 +453,6 @@ def publish_json(self):
             'body': lxml.etree.tostring(self.context.xml, encoding='unicode'),
         }
 
-    def retract_json(self):
-        return {}
-
 
 @grok.implementer(zeit.workflow.interfaces.IPublisherData)
 class ArticleDataScience(grok.Adapter, DataScienceMixin):
diff --git a/core/src/zeit/workflow/tests/test_publish_3rdparty.py b/core/src/zeit/workflow/tests/test_publish_3rdparty.py
index 2e792f6653..bb3b6dfc43 100644
--- a/core/src/zeit/workflow/tests/test_publish_3rdparty.py
+++ b/core/src/zeit/workflow/tests/test_publish_3rdparty.py
@@ -580,6 +580,19 @@ def test_datascience_payload_article(self):
         payload = zeit.workflow.testing.publish_json(article, 'datascience')
         self.assertEqual(payload['body'], lxml.etree.tostring(article.xml, encoding=str))
 
+    def test_datascience_payload_ignore_article(self):
+        article = zeit.content.article.testing.create_article()
+        zeit.cms.config.set(
+            'zeit.workflow',
+            'datascience-ignore-uniqueids',
+            'http://xml.zeit.de/article http://xml.zeit.de/article-two',
+        )
+        p = article.body.create_item('p')
+        p.text = 'foo'
+        article = self.repository['article'] = article
+        payload = zeit.workflow.testing.publish_json(article, 'datascience')
+        self.assertEqual(payload, None)
+
     def test_datascience_payload_centerpage(self):
         cp = self.repository['testcontent']
         zope.interface.alsoProvides(cp, zeit.content.cp.interfaces.ICenterPage)