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Bluesky link previews should honor "robots" meta tags (or headers) in posted URLs #6736

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mfb opened this issue Nov 25, 2024 · 0 comments
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mfb commented Nov 25, 2024

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Find a URL with a robots meta tag (or header) that rejects robots, for example, <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOARCHIVE">

In this case, when the URL is posted on Bluesky, I would propose that Bluesky not mirror/preview the link content into the post.

The reason for this is that a site may use such meta tags to mark content that is currently public, but not yet fully reviewed. Therefore it would be a good idea to not mirror the content, in case the content contains misinformation, spam, etc.

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Web (Desktop)

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1.94.0

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