Wordpress - How to completely disable a taxonomy archive on the frontend?

s_ha_dum's answer didn't work for me, but this did:

/**
 * Completely disable term archives for this taxonomy.
 * @param  string $taxonomy WordPress taxnomy name
 */
function kill_taxonomy_archive($taxonomy){

    add_action('pre_get_posts', function($qry) {

            if (is_admin()) return;

            if (is_tax($taxonomy)){
                $qry->set_404();
            }

        }

    );

}

WordPress taxonomy provides flexibilities to set its properties while registering it. To disable WordPress taxonomy archives, set "public" as "false" as shown in below example code. This will remove "View" action link from taxonomy screen and also redirect the user to website homepage when trying to access url of taxonomy manually.

Example

// Register Custom Taxonomy 
function custom_taxonomy() { 
  $labels = array( 
    'name' => _x( 'Taxonomies', 'Taxonomy General Name', 'text_domain' ), 
    'singular_name' => _x( 'Taxonomy', 'Taxonomy Singular Name', 'text_domain' ), 
    'menu_name' => __( 'Taxonomy', 'text_domain' ), 
    'all_items' => __( 'All Items', 'text_domain' ), 
    'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Item', 'text_domain' ), 
    'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Item:', 'text_domain' ), 
    'new_item_name' => __( 'New Item Name', 'text_domain' ), 
    'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Item', 'text_domain' ), 
    'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Item', 'text_domain' ), 
    'update_item' => __( 'Update Item', 'text_domain' ), 
    'view_item' => __( 'View Item', 'text_domain' ), 
    'separate_items_with_commas' => __( 'Separate items with commas', 'text_domain' ), 
    'add_or_remove_items' => __( 'Add or remove items', 'text_domain' ), 
    'choose_from_most_used' => __( 'Choose from the most used', 'text_domain' ), 
    'popular_items' => __( 'Popular Items', 'text_domain' ), 
    'search_items' => __( 'Search Items', 'text_domain' ), 
    'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'text_domain' ), 
    'no_terms' => __( 'No items', 'text_domain' ), 
    'items_list' => __( 'Items list', 'text_domain' ), 
    'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Items list navigation', 'text_domain' ), 
 ); 
    
 $args = array( 
  'labels' => $labels, 
  'hierarchical' => false, 
  'public' => false, // Set it to false, which will remove View link from backend and redirect user to homepage on clicking taxonomy link.
  'show_ui' => true, 
  'show_admin_column' => true, 
  'show_in_nav_menus' => true, 
  'show_tagcloud' => true, 
);