The future sucks
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Is there a site that does it right? I just need an ingredient list, times, temperatures and maybe a handful of specific pointers if I really need them.
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A website that begs you to download their app instead of just having recipes?
True, it does advertise its app. But you can still put in a recipe link and it cleans it up without the app or logging in. Which is way better than the original recipe website.
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Is there a site that does it right? I just need an ingredient list, times, temperatures and maybe a handful of specific pointers if I really need them.
Someone should make a browser extension or something that automatically recognizes what part of the page is the recipe, extracts it, and only shows you that.
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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.
There's so much "work" done in our capitalist society that is actively creating a drag on our lives, all to extract more money from us to the billionaire class. It will never be enough for them. Bezos and Fuckerberg would own slaves if the state allowed them to.
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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/
That actually sucks. Googles SEO algorithms force websites to homogenize.
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There's so much "work" done in our capitalist society that is actively creating a drag on our lives, all to extract more money from us to the billionaire class. It will never be enough for them. Bezos and Fuckerberg would own slaves if the state allowed them to.
But I was told capitalism was the most efficient system.
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But I was told capitalism was the most efficient system.
Most efficient for what?
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Most efficient for what?
Don't worry about it, it's just more efficient.
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Someone should make a browser extension or something that automatically recognizes what part of the page is the recipe, extracts it, and only shows you that.
The paprika app does this
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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!
Yeah, I think I live in a dreamworld like in the old show Computer Chronicles when computers were presented by scientists and used by engineers to do actual work. It was easy (for me) to grasp.
Now we have every sector of human activity, including those I consider at best useless, at worst harmful, like endless advertising, merchandising, propagandizing, misinforming, etc boosted exponentially because of essentially free computer power.
Not building a leisure society and using our tools for good, instead we just amplify the worst aspects of humanity.