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[stable25] Change X-Robots-Tag header from "none" to "noindex, nofollow" - #36749

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backport of #36689

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Not sure about this backport as this woild be a breaking change on some instances?

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It does not "break" anything but may show a new admin panel warning until admin takes action.

I still wonder whether we should explain the change a little, when the value "none" is found, like

The X-Robots-Tag HTTP header is set to "none", which prevents Google from indexing it, but Bing and other search machines have been found to not support this value. To prevent your Nextcloud from appearing in all common search machines, we recommend to switch the value to "noindex, nofollow".

So it is hopefully made clear that this is not just for bothering people but has some direct impact on privacy and indirectly security of Nextcloud instances which are not meant for public access.

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