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bicepjaiyesterday at 7:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

Even after providing firebase endpoint, crawlers come to the site ?


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dangyesterday at 10:08 PM

Oh my god. It's the crawlpocalypse.

Benderyesterday at 7:42 PM

Most crawlers have no concept of what that is. They will follow links to this site and then follow links out of this site even after being told not to [1]. The majority of crawlers follow zero rules, RFC's, etc... The few platforms that do follow standards and rules are akin to a law abiding citizen in Mos Eisley.

[1] - rel="nofollow"

busymom0yesterday at 7:38 PM

Unfortunately, the firebase API is very bad as they even acknowledge that in their github page.