Privacy Mechanics5 min
If You Ever Shared a Claude Chat, Go Check Google
Not a hack. One missing HTML tag, and “anyone with the link” quietly became “anyone with a search bar.”
CAUSE: DISALLOW ≠ NOINDEX
PLACEHOLDER BODY — NOT PUBLICATION COPY. Replace everything below this line with the real draft. The frontmatter above is taken from the approved mockup and is ready to keep as-is.
The lesson from this piece is wired into the site itself: robots.txt here never
blocks a content path, and anything that must stay out of search gets a noindex
meta tag instead — because a Disallow hides a URL from the crawler, not from
the index.