Preferred method to block SEO for branch subdomains

Our browseable deploys (specific to a point in time, or HEAD of a branch like staging) are one of our best features in my opinion. Auto-redirecting would break those features. As our deploys are immutable - frozen at the point the build completes, and any build can be published at your production URL, doing so would break many folks’ production workflows as well.

This is what we have in place as far as automatically preventing SEO trouble: