Timeline for Should hidden community user profiles pop up in a Google search?
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | Jeremy | @MadScientist It's not promising complete privacy. I appreciate the ability to have people only see a few primary communities when they view my profile, as a way of controlling how I present myself. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 14:21 | history | edited | Mad Scientist |
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 14:21 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | This just confirms that the current implementation of the feature is entirely useless, there are too many trivial ways to circumvent it. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 12:57 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard |
The /users page has <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag thus not indexed. As long as you don't post anything on those accounts, you should be safe.
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 12:55 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | But would that solve the problem? Isn't it linked from a lot of other places, like user lists? | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 12:54 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard |
True. Another solution would be adding the rel="nofollow" in the network profile Accounts tab, on any sites you hide. Now this one sounds ideal, and quite easy to implement.
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 12:52 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | Indeed. That is why I tagged it discussion. I am not sure if there are caveats I missed. This is one I guess. | |
| Aug 20, 2015 at 12:52 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard |
The problem is that your network profile is linked to from every site profile, and contains all your accounts. If they put rel="nofollow" on the network profile link it will solve what you describe, but would be "overkill' for those who do want their network profile to be indexed. So, not sure what I feel about it.
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 12:46 | history | asked | Patrick Hofman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |