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.
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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.
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.
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/
That actually sucks. Googles SEO algorithms force websites to homogenize.
Ahh, that explains it then. Cheers!
Because that's what computers used to be for. Now we drive engagement.
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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...
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.
Most efficient for what?
Don't worry about it, it's just more efficient.
Add “cooked.wiki/“ in front of any recipe url to preserve your sanity
time to make a recipe website that hides the recipe in JavaScript, but leaves the story in HTML.
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?
Adblocker FTW. Also im pretty sure ads dont pay shit without clickthrough. God the current financialisation of the web sucks ass.
The cruel part is that it was nested somewhere in the story and he scrolled past it just after day one.
Hey OP, please credit the creator if you can next time!
Oh wow, didn't realize it was cropped.
I don’t think it is cropped? There doesn’t seem to be a signature or watermark or whatever on the original either.
So I guess you did your best on this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
recipe-scrapers, a python library for scraping the recipes only from hundreds of different recipe sites and blogs. Powers other tools like pure-recipe. Doesn't use AI.
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.
seriouseats.com used to be a lot better, but the fluff before the recipe is generally focused on why the recipe uses the ingredients and quantities it uses, what else was tried, and what the results were. Especially for the older articles written by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, it ends up being almost more useful than the final recipe they land on. I know you were asking for a no-frills recipe site, but this approach is great for two reasons: 1) you can scroll to the bottom for a no-frills recipe, and 2) if that didn't work, or if you want to tweak it, the full article has a ton of helpful information, and not, like, a biography of the author's grandma.
His chocolate chip cookie article is a all-timer for food science.
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