The future sucks
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There's a firefox extention that filters out everything irrelevant to the recipe. At this point as soon as I open the browser half my ressources go into reverting enshittification.
It was life changing when I realised uBlock Origin can block whatever I want from web pages and not just ads.
All the links at the right of an article, headers and menus that want to continue occupying screen space after I've scrolled down, the entire comments section on some pages. Bam, gone.
Pages with cookie banners that don't have a one-click reject all button? Just block the banner.
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time to make a recipe website that hides the recipe in JavaScript, but leaves the story in HTML.
Just make the recipe an image that only appears when you rotate the 3D dog to face
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eh bad take imo, this is one of the few places where AI shines, it's great because you no longer need to go to a recipe website to begin with, you just ask it for a recipe and it gives you one and then you can discuss different variants etc
Agree. I've discovered some good unique gluten free cooking options for my son with AI. I never even knew about Coconut Aminos.
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The cruel part is that it was nested somewhere in the story and he scrolled past it just after day one.
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eh bad take imo, this is one of the few places where AI shines, it's great because you no longer need to go to a recipe website to begin with, you just ask it for a recipe and it gives you one and then you can discuss different variants etc
you should ask ai why you don't have a gf
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It was life changing when I realised uBlock Origin can block whatever I want from web pages and not just ads.
All the links at the right of an article, headers and menus that want to continue occupying screen space after I've scrolled down, the entire comments section on some pages. Bam, gone.
Pages with cookie banners that don't have a one-click reject all button? Just block the banner.
Some websites are literally only providing the very top of the article, and if you block the banner you will find that it abruptly ends. In cases like this, you can use archive.ph, though.
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Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.
This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.
Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.
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Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.
This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.
Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.
So why not put the recipe first, and the bullshit after?
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Holy fuck I needed this in my life
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So why not put the recipe first, and the bullshit after?
Because that's what computers used to be for. Now we drive engagement.
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Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.
This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.
Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.
I've had to explain that to people soooo many times. All those words, all those pics (with alt text), it's just to make the site higher on the search results...
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Because that's what computers used to be for. Now we drive engagement.
But OP stated that, the text only being there to manipulate SEO, the authors don't really care of you read it. So out it at thd bottom, after the recipe!
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Recipe articles are probably the best examples of web content whose only real purpose is ad clicks. All of the text is flavor text, in every sense.
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So why not put the recipe first, and the bullshit after?
Search engines favor text earlier in the site. Text "above the fold" (the area where you wouldn't have to scroll to see it) is scored higher.
https://www.pedalo.co.uk/seo-experiment-text-position-keyword-rankings/
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Those are put there for SEO purposes. Google favors sites with these big stories. The copyright issue alone doesn't justify what's there; you could do a quick blurb of a few sentences and it would be enough. Plenty of cookbooks do that.
This is why a lot of those sites have a button that says "skip to recipe". It's a bunch of text that's meant to be for robots, not you, and they really don't care if you read it.
Now that it's being created by LLMs, we may have the first known example of human language written by robots and intended for robots. Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.
SEO is part of it, but it's also literally just more physical real estate for ads. Recipe sites, including personal recipe blogs, are infamous for the sheer volume of ads placed on them. Yes, everyone just scrolls to the recipe so it kind of doesn't matter, but longer text means more space for ads.
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eh bad take imo, this is one of the few places where AI shines, it's great because you no longer need to go to a recipe website to begin with, you just ask it for a recipe and it gives you one and then you can discuss different variants etc
Not if you want any kind of consistency so you can actually replicate or understand what you're doing. Like hallucinations aside (and we really shouldn't put them aside because they're a very real thing in this context), the point of a recipe is that you aren't just getting an averaged version of the process; you're getting a curated version with specific considerations in mind.
So you can ask AI for a cinnamon apple pie recipe, and you might get an okay one, but you're probably never going to get a better-than-average one. And if you do like the version of the recipe it gave you, you had better write it down because when you ask for it next time, it's not going to be the same cinnamon apple pie recipe. I've personally played around with recipes in AI, and even within the same chat, there's no consistency because it never "knows" anything; it only makes predictive guesses. So when I say, "I like that recipe, but let's try half as much ginger and maybe add some mirin," it will reduce the ginger and add mirin, but suddenly all the volumes of the other ingredients have changed, and some items may even disappear.
So yeah, I think this is something that AI could potentially work well for in the future, as is kind of always the case with any potentially useful AI application right now. But right now, until they've been developed with some kind of better active memory and/or something resembling comprehension rather than predictive association, I think this is a field where AI is passable at best, not yet somewhere it shines.
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Search engines favor text earlier in the site. Text "above the fold" (the area where you wouldn't have to scroll to see it) is scored higher.
https://www.pedalo.co.uk/seo-experiment-text-position-keyword-rankings/
Ahh, that explains it then. Cheers!
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If the "jump to recipe" button doesnt work or doesnt exist, Im out.
Sadly, by the time you see that the button isn't there, you've already given them the visit and ad impressions... Well, unless you run an ad blocker but what horrible person would do that?
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eh bad take imo, this is one of the few places where AI shines, it's great because you no longer need to go to a recipe website to begin with, you just ask it for a recipe and it gives you one and then you can discuss different variants etc
It's awesome that it gives you cooking tips you'll find no where else, like adding glue to improve the consistency of cheese. Or making sure you get your recommended daily serving amount of rocks.
