We sounded the alarm about independent publishers being demoted on Google to give way to big media sites. This is what happened next.
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
Thank you for this! Lots of people online have pushed forward the idea that Google search results are not as useful as before. This was the first article that I’ve read that did a good job of quantifying what that actually means and providing context as to why it is happening.
Instantly blocked by Cloudflare without even the usual cumbersome javascript probes. The web is getting worse so quickly that it’s difficult to read the articles about how the web is getting worse.
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Thank you for this! Lots of people online have pushed forward the idea that Google search results are not as useful as before. This was the first article that I’ve read that did a good job of quantifying what that actually means and providing context as to why it is happening.
Instantly blocked by Cloudflare without even the usual cumbersome javascript probes. The web is getting worse so quickly that it’s difficult to read the articles about how the web is getting worse.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240523104932/https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/
So maybe it could be that they set cloudflare so aggressive that’s blocking all the bots including the googlebot
Cloudflare is totally collecting data, why else would they want you to disable Javascript blockers or fingerprint detection.
The reason is because they use that stuff to help determine if you’re a bot.
No it’s not, bots are scripted to do things. Cloudflare stops JavaScript blockers, it’s not the same thing.
Archive.org is essential. I donate regularly, they are a key part of the infrastructure of the internet now…