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I thought "A robots.txt Problem" was going to showcase my hack-the-planet idea of destroying someone's online store by _only_ finding a way to edit their robots
by andirk 4y ago
I thought "A robots.txt Problem" was going to showcase my hack-the-planet idea of destroying someone's online store by _only_ finding a way to edit their robots.txt file to say:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
And then no one can find them via search and they go broke.
- keyle 4y agoNo need to do that nowadays, the SEO manipulators will take care of it... you'll never find it on page 1 of google.
- someweirdperson 4y agorobots.txt prevents crawling, but not indexing and returning as search results. Previously discussed e.g. [0]. But of course shop updates won't be seen easily anymore. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892299