themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours agoItch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfirewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1639arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1632arrow-down1external-linkItch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfirewww.pcgamer.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
Few days ago: https://www.thegamer.com/steam-removes-adult-games-because-of-collective-shout-feminist-anti-abortion-group/
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoBut (not-meta)search engines crawl websites.
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-222 hours agoExactly. They “crawl” category/tag lists, etc. and follow links. And if there are no links to those pages, they wont be indexed. (Depending on some settings. For all I know they’ve set up “hidden redirects” for popular crawlers to pages that show them)
But (not-meta)search engines crawl websites.
Exactly. They “crawl” category/tag lists, etc. and follow links. And if there are no links to those pages, they wont be indexed.
(Depending on some settings. For all I know they’ve set up “hidden redirects” for popular crawlers to pages that show them)