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-squaremriswith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-21 day agoDeindexed/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-up6·1 day agoDid 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-up2·22 hours ago 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-up1·22 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)
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)