themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months 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-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1550arrow-down14
arrow-up1546arrow-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 · 5 months agomessage-square68linkfedilink
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 months 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)
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)