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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by jkaptur on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:40PM (#31897091)
The crawler followed buttons on forms? And sent POST requests? Yikes..
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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by duxup on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:46PM (#31897184)
Yup. It was a pain. I have no idea who wrote that and thought it was a good idea…

It was a super basic web form too. Probably the most html markup standard thing we have. Nothing strange about it that could have triggered some sort of strange behavior.

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