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Replace spider-trap nginx 404s with robots.txt disallowing /explorer/
The /explorer/ SPA endpoints were the source of all spider-trap traffic.
A robots.txt Disallow is a better fix than serving 404s — it prevents
crawlers from entering the infinite URL tree in the first place, avoids
serving large numbers of 404s that hurt SEO, and doesn't break legitimate
deep links.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-06 18:34:37 -08:00

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Replace nginx spider-trap 404 guards with robots.txt disallowing /explorer/ to prevent crawler-induced infinite URL trees.