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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by slig on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:56PM (#22444725)
Big properties do that and Google doesn't care.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by krisroadruck on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:17PM (#22444955)
You sure about that? How big qualifies as big in your eyes? Medium implemented homepage cloaking in November of 2019 and within a month they lost 40% of their overall search visibility:

https://www.onely.com/blog/medium-lost-half-visibility/

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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by zrobotics on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:56PM (#22445283)
Pinterest? Google is somehow able to crawl images on their site, but I certainly can't view these images without creating an account and logging in. Their site ranks highly enough that I gave up on google image search last year.

Additionally, off the top of my head Bloomberg and NYT both won't allow me to view more than a few articles but let the Google crawler index their articles.

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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by jessaustin on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:05PM (#22445355)
Yes Pinterest is awful. Certain categories of images are totally borked on Google and other search engines because of them.
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