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Of course you can still open an image directly and pin that. Why a company would not want their product image and a link back to their site is beyond me (it's

Of course you can still open an image directly and pin that. Why a company would not want their product image and a link back to their site is beyond me (it's basically free advertising).

franze 15y ago
>Of course you can still open an image directly and pin that well, to counter this scenario pinterest would need to support the X-Pinterest-Tag: nopin HTTP header - for images, PDF, all non HTML data (similar to googles "standard" X-Robots-Meta: noimageindex, see: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index/docs/robots_meta_tag https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index...)
- ars 15y ago
  As a side note, you are not supposed to use X- anymore. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539663
  - btn 15y ago
    That is still a draft document, and has not been accepted as a BCP (Best Current Practice) RFC yet.
- xtoddx 15y ago
  Or the more generic X-Allow-Repost: no But why don't they just look at EXIF data for copyright/license and respect that?
  - imajes 15y ago
    because that's expensive and time consuming.
    - Argorak 15y ago
      "It took too long to check, so I violated your copyright." ? I guess the real reason is that the EXIF data has the typical metadata problem: its not accurate at all.