• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    5 days ago

    Why wouldn’t they? You don’t even have to be logged in to view them.

    You should never assume anything you post publicly online is at all private or hidden from any search engine/AI.

    • Chamomile 🐑@furry.engineer
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      5 days ago

      @OwOarchist @Rhoeri Unlike AI crawlers, search engines generally respect robots.txt and noindex tags, which will tell them not to index or surface those pages in search results. This is how fediverse profiles which have chosen to opt out of internet search indexes do so.

      You should still assume things you post in public with no auth required are public of course.

    • Rhoeri@piefed.social
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      5 days ago

      Could you imagine someone legitimately looking some shit up and having trash from lemmy.ml be the result?

      The world isn’t really for that level of misinformation.