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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)
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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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[–] 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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