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PSA: this setting might help if you don't want assbutts to search for your profile and toots on google and the like awoo.space/media/l65ueQRw1CI5u

@noiob It doesn't actually work. Unscrupulous third-parties ignore robots.txt, and it's trivial to pretend to the server that you're actually a regular ol' human-guided browser.

@Aerdan it will still keep big search engines from showing your profile and toots, and the specific assbutts I'm talking about are definitely too lazy to write their own indexing tools or sth

@noiob it's great but this doesn't federate to other instances unfortunately

@noiob at the very least it won't show you the higher traffic page related to you specifically on the site you use

@vahnj hm, when I google my own name I don't find much except some of my most successful toots

@vahnj also it'd keep people from finding me by searching "keyword site:awoo.space"

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