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HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? - An elaborate historical analysis and overview of Google search results and media landscape (housefresh.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is totally collecting data, why else would they want you to disable Javascript blockers or fingerprint detection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The reason is because they use that stuff to help determine if you're a bot.

reCAPTCHA Enterprise interacts with the customer backend and webpages to trigger a sequence of JavaScript, HTML, and token authentication events.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No it’s not, bots are scripted to do things. Cloudflare stops JavaScript blockers, it’s not the same thing.