themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 天前Itch.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-square87fedilinkarrow-up1675arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1668arrow-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 天前message-square87fedilinkfile-text
Few days ago: https://www.thegamer.com/steam-removes-adult-games-because-of-collective-shout-feminist-anti-abortion-group/
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·19 天前Hm? From a sample size of 10, 10 are still online on itch.io.
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-219 天前Deindexed/delisted, not removed. Try putting the names into the search field on the site, or browsing for them in the categories they are in.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 天前Did that ever work anyway? For the last few years i only find porn games via duckduckgo and “You might also be interested in”. edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 天前 edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore. Which could cause them to no longer be indexed by search engines depending on other settings. So you’d need to find direct links from other websites.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 天前But (not-meta)search engines crawl websites.
minus-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 天前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)
Hm? From a sample size of 10, 10 are still online on itch.io.
Deindexed/delisted, not removed.
Try putting the names into the search field on the site, or browsing for them in the categories they are in.
Did that ever work anyway? For the last few years i only find porn games via duckduckgo and “You might also be interested in”.
edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.
Which could cause them to no longer be indexed by search engines depending on other settings. So you’d need to find direct links from other websites.
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)