[starkrights]

Can you actually explain why the phrase you cited from OP is wrong? You say that ~”files need to be linked to from somewhere” is correct. How is a file linked to from somewhere [on the internet] if it’s not being served on the internet that Google crawls (ie, HTML)? The only alternative is in… API calls? That Google probably isn’t crawling?

“Fiverr might be hosting public HTML somewhere” seems like an entirely reasonable alternative phrase to “these links must be linked from somewhere [that Google can crawl] “, at least to someone who is only superficially familiar with how search works.

The distinction you imply is obvious is not, and your point is thus rather confusing to someone who is not you.

[walletdrainer]

It’s a huge mistake to assume these links have to originate from fiverr-hosted HTML, it’s far more likely Google is finding them from places like GitHub repos used by fiverr-users.

[morpheuskafka]

That was my first thought, but is it logical to assume that 5+ unrelated people took their finished tax return URL and linked it on a website/tweet/etc? Who would do that?

Even still, Fiverr could very well have GDPR/CCPA/etc liability as the host of these files, because they related to its services, it's not just a generic file host.

[walletdrainer]

> Who would do that?

Indian users, at least that’s what github data suggests.