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I thought that the complaint would be exposing links that are meant to be secured by containing a non-guessable element (eg Google Drive documents) are indexed, but that's not it.

Malware detection already hits a lot of links that come in email, which also blows up the email validation feature. 🀷
That is crazy! I wonder if Google does the same thingβ€½
gmail mobile tracks every clicked link by redirecting the user through their proxy.
Tracking and "publicly indexing by hitting the link with a search crawler" are two different beasts. In the latter case, beyond the privacy implications of a search engine publicly indexing logged-in pages, wouldn't it make magic links useless if the website discards login tokens after the first use?
I see, that's a very important point I overlooked. Thanks for the explanation.
To be fair, a person deliberately choosing to use Outlook has already given up on having nice things.
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