[stable25] Change X-Robots-Tag header from "none" to "noindex, nofollow" #36749
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While "none" is indeed equivalent to "noindex, nofollow" for Google, but seems to be not supported by Bing and probably other search engines. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/meta/name#other_metadata_names https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag?hl=de#comma-separated-list https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-robots-metatags-does-bing-support-5198d240 Signed-off-by: MichaIng <[email protected]>
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Not sure about this backport as this woild be a breaking change on some instances? |
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It does not "break" anything but may show a new admin panel warning until admin takes action. I still wonder whether we should explain the change a little, when the value "none" is found, like
So it is hopefully made clear that this is not just for bothering people but has some direct impact on privacy and indirectly security of Nextcloud instances which are not meant for public access. |
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