Updated 26 August 2026
Oernoe publishes on www.oernoe.com and operates products on other hostnames. Some of the public copy on this site was wrong. Some of it was unfinished. Some of it was a generic SEO outline with our logo on it. This page is the list we are willing to put in front of a reader, including a reviewer from the Google publisher network.
A correction here means the old wording is no longer the page, or the URL is noindexed, or both. We do not quietly swap a sentence and pretend the first version never shipped. If you catch something that is not on this list, write hello@oernoe.com with the URL.
“Zero tracking” as a site-wide promise
Older homepage and product copy talked as if the whole Oernoe network had no ads, no cookies, and no third parties. That was false once this publisher site applied for Google AdSense. Search still does not use queries as an advertising file. Selected finished pages on www.oernoe.com may show Google ads, and Google may process page context, cookies, IP address, and device data on those pages. Both sentences have to be true at once.
The current wording is in Search queries and Google ads, the Privacy Policy, and the cookie notice. If you still see “zero tracking” on a live URL, that URL is wrong.
Mail as a product you could join
/mail used to be a “coming soon” page. It promised end-to-end encryption, instant delivery, and “no tracking, no ads, no data selling. Ever.” It also had an email capture form that went nowhere. Mail is not released. There is no mailbox to claim and no waiting list. Collecting addresses for software that does not exist means holding personal data with nothing to attach it to.
The page is now a status notice. It is noindexed. It does not load ads. It tells you to use the contact inboxes if you need to reach us, and the about page for what is actually live.
Generic SEO journal URLs
Four journal addresses used to be interchangeable marketing essays: how search engines work, SEO in 2026, content that ranks, and UX that converts. They could have lived on any site. That is thin content even when the word count is high. The URLs still exist so old links do not break. The documents on them are now Oernoe specific: what we crawl, how we publish, what has to be true before a page stays public, and why this hostname is a publisher site.
Other promotional slugs, including “future of free tech” and “safest platform in 2026,” stay up for old links and are excluded from the index, the journal listing, the sitemap, and ads. The mechanical rule is in What we publish.
robots.txt that did not match the URLs
robots.txt used to disallow paths with a trailing slash: /mail/, /auth/, /console/, /dashboard/. The live routes are /mail, /auth, /console, /dashboard. Google could fetch the bare URLs, which rendered as near-empty application shells. A reviewer who typed those addresses saw a site padded with empty pages.
The fix is the opposite of blocking more paths. Application shells now send X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow. robots.txt only disallows /api/ and /debug/, so a crawler can fetch the URL and honour the header. A Disallow line that stops Google from reading noindex is how you stay indexed by accident.
Thin company pages
Team, the AI policy library, the guides index, and Contact were in the sitemap with too little text for a publisher that wanted to be in the Google publisher network. They named the right people and inboxes, then stopped. Those pages now explain ownership, accountability, how to file a privacy request, and how the guide list is kept short on purpose.
How-To that pointed at the wrong signup
How-To told people to create an account from www.oernoe.com and to wait on an email verification link before anything would work. Signup is at account.oernoe.com/auth/sign-up. Basic access does not wait on a verification ritual. A verification mail, when it arrives, is for recovering the inbox later. How-To is being kept in line with Using an Oernoe account.
Overlapping privacy essays
Several journal URLs restated the same privacy thesis with different titles. That is also thin content: length without a new job for the reader. Those URLs now have distinct documents. One is about the query file Search is not allowed to keep. One is about product ideas we rejected. One is a twenty-query test. One is about jobs Search should not be asked to do. One is about what Google can see on this publisher site. One is about the tools we use to run the site, not a recycled list of consumer VPNs.
How a new correction gets on this list
Send the page address and the sentence that is wrong. Factual errors in articles and guides are corrected with a note rather than edited in silence. Product claims are checked against the live hostnames on the homepage. Policy claims are checked against Privacy, Cookies, and Terms. If those sources disagree, the article loses until we update it.
We do not pay for corrections, we do not run a public comments thread, and we do not promise a same-day rewrite on every mail. We do promise that a specific, checkable complaint is more useful than a topic, and that this list will get longer when we are wrong rather than shorter when we are embarrassed.