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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 crossfire (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Few days ago: https://www.thegamer.com/steam-removes-adult-games-because-of-collective-shout-feminist-anti-abortion-group/

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hm? From a sample size of 10, 10 are still online on itch.io.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    But (not-meta)search engines crawl websites.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    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)

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