• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Google is responsible for the bloat

    We had SEO before Google. We’ll have SEO after Google.

    Yesterday it was a website with 47 different kinds of pop-up ads that contained every conceivable recipe in the meta-data of the header. Today it’s a 12,000 word Martha Stewart rant about the time mom cooked a croquet madame before a two sentence recipe instruction. Tomorrow… who knows?

    Maybe we’ll only get recipes read to us during the performance of an elaborate TikTok dance. Maybe we’ll need a thumbprint, a live camera photo, and three forms of state-issued ID to prove our identity before we can access FaceBook Presents: The One Cookbook Still Legally Allowed To Be Hosted On The Internet. Maybe everything will need to be translated from Chinese.

    Only time will tell.

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      Point being that the SEO was forced onto the websites to make their websites a worse experience. Now they summarize the website so you don’t have to view that website anymore.