Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-9605025-20191228041751

I am a bit confused. Your first paragraph sounds like it is in favor of the change but the rest of your reply is against it. With regards to  and , they do not stop crawlers from indexing the content/follow the link. The tags are simply requests that crawlers don't index the content/follow the link. A crawler is perfectly free to ignore those tags if it wants. I assume that this change in behavior mitigates that issue to some extent if not entirely.