I hear you! That shouldn't be on by default. Just keep in mind that this becomes a growing factor for being found through (AI) search engines. E.g. GPT, Perplexity...
Every published website can be crawled - Squarespace is one of the few platforms that gave us the opportunity to say no 🙌 Wordpress folks, track down a plug-in. Wix folks, good luck 😬
Thank you both! I wasn't sure this would apply to my site because it's an author site, but yep, the setting was right there. So glad to protect my work and the work of the illustrators and photographers.
No need to apologize! I am happy that people are sharing.
Apparently it was posted in a few Discords as well. I couldn't get much traction on Reddit & LinkedIn, just here.
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I'm more concerned about protecting my writing than my images as well.
PS. Thanks for sharing on Twitter btw, I did not realise you were on Bluesky too so apologies for not tagging you on here.
Apparently it was posted in a few Discords as well. I couldn't get much traction on Reddit & LinkedIn, just here.