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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s why they implemented the „Skip to Recipe“ button. No one wants to read through a failed authors shit.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

They do it for SEO, not because they think people care.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a SEO trick to get better rating on Google

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Right, they are helping to ruin the internet so their blog can generate $14/m.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Blame SEO (search engine optimization). Basically, Google and Bing tend to favour websites who have a whole bunch of useless info at the top of the page.

It's all algorithmically driven. Blame the nerds at Google and Microsoft. The people who run the website with the recipe are just tryna make a buck so they hire SEO experts who format the page in this way.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

i don't even use search engines for cooking anymore, i go to allrecipes.com and just search there. sometimes there's a bad one that slips through, but they have like 30 recipes for whatever youre looking for so you can always just swap to another one.

also if you do find a good recipe (on any site, really) i highly recommend making a pastebin of it for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For self-hosters, here is a good recipe manager: https://docs.tandoor.dev/
I can import/scrape recipes from other websites (not perfect, but really decent!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Damn I've been looking for a decent recipe manager! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And it's got all Chef John's recipes that go with his Food Wishes videos on YT

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

nytimes cooking. done. My wife and I use it ALL THE DAMN TIME and there's:

  1. none of this garbage
  2. results are delicious
  3. very well laid out in terms of what-to-buy and how-to-cook
  4. formatted really well for tablet which is the perfect device for cooking
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

people here are presenting their fixes well here's mine

https://www.justtherecipe.com/

gives you exactly what you need to know from the original recipe site (i havent used it alot so be wary, it could be flawed and miss some steps maybe idk)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

This drives me insane. Conventional search engines feel broken for practical information. I'm gonna have another look at Searx and see if I can just add websites to it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately SEO optimization made it proper blogs and articles are burried down the 10th search page. While copy cat click farm websites sit at the top of the results. Blame Google for that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Yes every sponsored click bait article now that looks even remotely interesting is like this.

They use the old "look at the actors from this TV show now" , or the good old "you won't believe what happened to someone" with photochopped faces to make them look way worse with 38 pages of buildup before they get to the thing in the article if they even cover the thing or person at all.

Often they don't even show the people pictured in the end! 38 pages of nothing too.

I assume it's all about serving more ads. I never see the ads with my ad blockers on android but I never click on any of these types of articles now no matter how much I loved the show or subject.

I only needed to put my hand on the hot stove several times before finally learning my lesson...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

You can visit based cooking website to get just recipes without any of that other nonsense. I haven't tried those recipes because I don't do much cooking but I guess it's worth a try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hate looking for recipes on the internet. Why are they all so terribly formatted, is it to prop up the cookbook industry? I don't normally see conspiracies everywhere, but...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

These are the kinds of things that I hope AI will phase out. Let the AI read through all that crap and give me the real info.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ChatGPT, are you sure it should be 12 cups of baking soda? "Sorry for the confusion. Baking soda, also known as sodium bicarbonate, is an integral part of this recipe..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, there's also that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I clicked that and got an ad for TikTok.

Spot on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's not a food blogger. That's an AI written click farm. No real people writing that drivel.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This kind of content farming has been a thing since long before AIs took over the front page of google. GPT has made these even more prominent than they used to be, but it could very well be a food blogger

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Download with Paprika app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If there's a "print recipe" button click it. Should be all you need.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sadly not available for Ff on Android, hopefully that changes soon