For example, the following Google search now returns zero hits, when previously it returned links to multiple Stardot forum threads:
Has Google been told to stop crawling the forums?

I wonder what's going on then? Stardot convos used to be top hits for lots of different Acorn-related Google searches. But not any more..!
Thanks. So the solution you implemented was to disable the privacy policy extension completely?
No, it was to update the version - as people had pointed out to the extension author that it was blocking bots. I think this new version should let them index, but I'll keep an eye on it. Of course, my first effort to update the extension broke stardot