LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find

#1

Post by tagersenim » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:14 AM UTC

LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find
bleepingcomputer.com

Re: LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find

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Post by tagersenim » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:15 AM UTC

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  HTML tags to the document to prevent them from being indexed by search engines.

Re: LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find

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Post by chiefalchemist » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:26 AM UTC

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.

Re: LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find

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Post by mtmail » Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:57 AM UTC

tagersenim wrote: post #2

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 HTML tags to the document to prevent them from being indexed by search engines.

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