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socalgal2today at 3:56 AM1 replyview on HN

robots.txt means they shouldn't auto-scan your site. Any user though can go to the wayback machine and type in a URL and the wayback machine will read that URL. That was the intent of robots.txt (don't scan) not (don't read period). It's spelled out in the spec for robots.txt


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keanetoday at 4:40 AM

The <meta name="robots"> tag and robots.txt serve different roles: robots.txt controls crawling, while the robots meta tag influences indexing and other behavior. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

I wonder how archive.org_bot behaves when <meta name="robots" content="noindex, noarchive, nocache" /> is present.