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Set nofollow on user-generated links #14189

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hennevogel opened this issue Apr 19, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #14193
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Set nofollow on user-generated links #14189

hennevogel opened this issue Apr 19, 2023 · 0 comments · Fixed by #14193
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Bug Frontend Things related to the OBS RoR app

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To disincentivize spamdexing, links in user-generated content should be disavowed by annotation with rel="nofollow" attributes. Automated spam has already hit b.o.o in the wild.

Pass rendered markdown through the NoFollow scrubber already available in Rails.

Ideally this would be done during markdown rendering or in a single sanitization pass; see the unresolved discussion at vmg/redcarpet#720.

Stolen from openSUSE/osem#3131
@hennevogel hennevogel added Bug Frontend Things related to the OBS RoR app labels Apr 19, 2023
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Tag hyperlinks with nofollow
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Bots are spamming us with hyperlinks to unrelated sites to increase their pages' score in search engines.
By adding rel="nofollow", this will be disincentivised.

Fixes openSUSE#14189

Co-authored-by: Jacob Michalskie <jacob.michalskie@suse.com>
adrianschroeter pushed a commit to adrianschroeter/open-build-service that referenced this issue Jun 29, 2023
@bmwiedemann @hellcp-work @adrianschroeter
Tag hyperlinks with nofollow
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Bots are spamming us with hyperlinks to unrelated sites to increase their pages' score in search engines.
By adding rel="nofollow", this will be disincentivised.

Fixes openSUSE#14189

Co-authored-by: Jacob Michalskie <jacob.michalskie@suse.com>
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