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Re:50% of new NPM packages are spam by overthrow on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:43AM (#35371761)
I sometimes run topical searches like <protobuf site:npmjs.com> to discover packages if I don't know the package name ahead of time. It would be annoying if NPM were not indexed at all.
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Re:50% of new NPM packages are spam by onion2k on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:01AM (#35371996)
It would be annoying if NPM were not indexed at all

More or less annoying than NPM being used for hosting spam?

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Re:50% of new NPM packages are spam by overthrow on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:16AM (#35372194)
That seems like a false choice. Deindexing is not the only way to solve spam. Plenty of other websites have found solutions and didn't have to pull themselves from Google.
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