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For me it’s the stackoverflow and github comment scrapers. They often clutter up my results greatly.
by jpxw 6y ago
For me it’s the stackoverflow and github comment scrapers. They often clutter up my results greatly.
- saagarjha 6y agoI hate those, but they're so many that you'd need a community maintained list to keep track of them all…
- RedShift1 6y agoI have often wondered about the point of those websites. What do they win out of this?
- jellevdv 6y agothat sweet advertising money.
- Nextgrid 6y agoWould there really be enough revenue to warrant doing this, considering 1) scraping and hosting that content requires some effort, 2) the content would (should?) be penalized for plagiarism so they would have very little traffic and 3) developers are probably the worst audience to try and monetize with ads due to the prevalence of ad blockers.
- waheoo 6y agoVery little traffic, yet enough to be annoying?
- Normal_gaussian 6y agoMost people who code are not developers. Mine and my partners parents learned c (badly) at some point. Nearly everyone on the b2b customer support team at my last job could sling some js. A surprising number of marketers learn to wrangle some carousels/buttons/etc. vba script excel monster stories are prevalent. These people are great to monetize. They are paid well and doing something they don't understand well.
- kelnos 6y agoI see them in search results often enough (sometimes even before the SO post they've scraped) that it seems to be working, and the search engines (both DDG and Google for me) haven't caught on.
- inetknght 6y ago> and the search engines haven't caught on. Sure they have. They just don't care as long as they made their quick buck off of it.
- Macha 6y agoThe data is provided as a downloadable dump, so it's really just a basic read only CMS.
- fbi-director 6y agoAds pay money now!
- joshspankit 6y agoThese are what immediately jumped to mind when I read what this extension does.
- Avamander 6y agoGitHub should make them against the ToS.