Are "public" collections private?

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April 12, 2018
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In Lightroom Classic CC, I have to make a collection "public" in order to get a link that I can share with friends. But who else can see that collection? Is it really "public" to the whole world? If some stranger does a search on a keyword associated with one of the photos in my "public" collection, might they come across my photo?

I really want the collection to be visible only to people that know the link. Is that how it works?

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Bernie33Author

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Following up on responses from Theresa J and John Beardsworth, I've done Google, Yahoo and Bing searches for adobe.ly with and without additional search terms. I found no hits to photos shared via adobe.ly links. So, at least for now, it appears that the search engines are not indexing pictures shared that way.

JP Hess

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I don't see anything in Lightroom Classic CC about making a collection "public". And on the website, there is a choice to share the collection, but even there all I see is a place to get a copy of the link to share with others. I don't think it's available to anyone except those you choose to share it with. At least that's the way I understand it.

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Bernie33Author

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In Lightroom Classic CC, to get a shareable link to a Collection the only way I know to do it is to right-click on the Collection. That gives a pop-up that allows you to Sync the collection. The pop-up also has an option to get a link, but you can't do that unless you first Sync the Collection. When it is Synced, you can click on Lightroom CC Links and that pops-up another window that allows you to view it on the web, or to make it Public. If you make it Public you can then get a link that you can share with others.

So, my question is still, does "Public" really mean shareable only to people who have the link?