Discord chats indexed by search engines: how to keep messages out of Google results

Reports from Xataka and Hipertextual revealed that public Discord channels are being indexed by Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, prompting a surge in searches on the topic. The guide explains how crawlers reach public channel links and render their content, which is then stored in search indexes. Recommended steps include making channels private, disabling public invite links, and adding X-Robots-Tag headers or robots.txt rules on custom domains. It notes that these measures cannot remove pages a crawler has already indexed, and includes sample scripts for auditing exposure.