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#1 User is online   smerriman 

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Posted 2018-June-10, 17:01

http://www.bridgebase.com/robots.txt has /forums/ now blocked from robots.

I use Google all of the time to search the forum (site:bridgebase.com/forums/), since the inbuilt forum search is terrible. Now all of the results are gone.

Why?
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Posted 2018-June-10, 17:12

View Postsmerriman, on 2018-June-10, 17:01, said:

http://www.bridgebase.com/robots.txt has /forums/ now blocked from robots.

I use Google all of the time to search the forum (site:bridgebase.com/forums/), since the inbuilt forum search is terrible. Now all of the results are gone.

Why?


I am guessing GDPR
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Posted 2018-June-10, 17:24

There is no conceivable reason for GDPR affecting Google's cache, unless European visitors are 100% blocked from the forums.
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Posted 2018-June-10, 17:27

View Postsmerriman, on 2018-June-10, 17:24, said:

There is no conceivable reason for GDPR affecting Google's cache, unless European visitors are 100% blocked from the forums.

Sometimes, people post cheating accusations directed at named users. They will be edited by mods quickly but there's a risk that the original will be in the cache.
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Posted 2018-June-10, 20:42

View Posthelene_t, on 2018-June-10, 17:27, said:

Sometimes, people post cheating accusations directed at named users. They will be edited by mods quickly but there's a risk that the original will be in the cache.

True, but that's not relevant to GDPR (anyone can post anyone else's info on any forum / comment system anywhere, that doesn't put you at fault), and if that was the real reason regardless of GDPR, that seems a bit of an over-reaction compared to the benefits.
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Posted 2018-June-11, 08:53

We put the forums in our robots.txt Disallow list a few months ago because we thought the excess load from crawlers was causing errors.

We've taken it out, and if problems return we'll investigate other solutions.

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