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How about detecting GoogleBot traffic and deleting when it has crawled your website?


Then anyone would be able to trigger the autodestruct by spoofing their UA.


Googlebot's identity can the authenticated to prevent spoofing:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en


I actually wasn't aware of that! Thanks for the link.




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