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Chris Trottier

Don't want your Mastodon account to be indexed by search engines? Here's how to opt out!

Go to Settings > Preferences > Other. Then check the box for "Opt-out of search engine indexing".

Finally, click "Save changes".

See screenshot.
26 Dec 2022 at 6:07 | Open on mastodon.social
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Will
90s Craig 🎢

@atomicpoet
Keep in mind this is only a "suggestion" to the search engines and it is up to them to honor it or not. In general the more well known crawlers (google, msn, bing) will honor this, but others will index your content anyways

26 Dec 2022 at 6:12 | Open on pb.craignt.com
DELETED

@90sCraig @atomicpoet which is true for all publicly facing web pages.

In addition, worth remembering that other servers can do whatever the hell they want to with your publicly accessible content

26 Dec 2022 at 6:17 | Open on mstdn.social
90s Craig 🎢

@nus @atomicpoet
Precisely :)

This is why I tend to just accept that whatever I post will likely be indexed, and to allow indexing. The info is out there, and discouraging it being indexed just seems futile

26 Dec 2022 at 6:20 | Open on pb.craignt.com
Chris Trottier

@90sCraig @nus To a lot of people, Google and Bing are enough of an opt out.

26 Dec 2022 at 6:21 | Open on mastodon.social
LinaB

@atomicpoet can I turn off " in ap browser" or not?
I am on phone

26 Dec 2022 at 6:16 | Open on mastodon.au
LinaB

@atomicpoet I don't get that box in my settings

26 Dec 2022 at 6:19 | Open on mastodon.au
Carole Bell

@atomicpoet

Just checked settings.
No Preferences > Other.
/ "Opt-out of search engine indexing".

Would this very with the server your own?

26 Dec 2022 at 6:26 | Open on thoughtful.social
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