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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by _tom_ on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:28PM (#31897794)
Worse would be links that are private to the people who posses the url. Like a private video on YouTube or a private document in google docs. The security depends on the URL being secret. This would silently publish secret information.
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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by 9dev on Monday June 27, 2022 @01:55PM (#31898162)
If those pages have no proper meta tags or robots.txt, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this. Security by obscurity was never a good approach; from Proxies to security scanners, there has always been software that crawls unassuming URLs and published the results somewhere, if only a report to the admin.
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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by boxed on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:58PM (#31900706)
robots.txt disallow is ignored for my production site at least. This is super bad.
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Re:“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, renderin... by nopassrecover on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:32AM (#31977451)
Same for us - we have robots.txt disallow etc. and the relevant headers for personal customer links and Bing is ignoring and publishing all the same
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