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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

It does respect robots.txt, but that doesn't mean it won't index the content hidden behind robots.txt. That file is context dependent. Here's an example.

Site X has a link to sitemap.html on the front page and it is blocked inside robots.txt. When Google crawler visits site X it will first load robots.txt and will follow its instructions and will skip sitemap.html.

Now there's site Y and it also links to sitemap.html on X. Well, in this context the active robots.txt file is from Y and it doesn't block anything on X (and it cannot), so now the crawler has the green light to fetch sitemap.html.

This behaviour is intentional.