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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)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 5 months ago

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