Comment on 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

• mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But (not-meta)search engines crawl websites.

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    • mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly. They “crawl” category/tag lists, etc. and follow links. And if there are no links to those pages, they wont be indexed.

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