LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find (opens in new tab)

(bleepingcomputer.com)

3 pointstagersenim3y ago3 comments

3 comments

From the article:

  All of today's support bulletins are not easy to find, with none of them listed in search engines, as the company added <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> HTML tags to the document to prevent them from being indexed by search engines.

mtmail3y ago

The submission title includes "LastPass edits robots.txt" but https://support.lastpass.com/robots.txt doesn't seem to exclude those URLs and the article doesn't mention robots.txt

chiefalchemist3y ago

1) Presuming they're using a CMS perhaps it's an accident?

2) To clarify a bit, afaik, robots.txt is a request / suggestion, a nice to have if you will. It doesn't prevent indexing.

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