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That explains a lot of the crap I see. Google something very specific like how to setup a testing library? You'll get an article from dev.to with a 3000 word wall of text containing not only a verbose description of what is unit testing and why you should unit test, but also the author's life story and maybe a recipe for mojitos

The actual content was a couple of shell commands and like 3 lines of JSON



Worse still are those auto generated spam sites that have an FAQ index on the top of the page looking like a Wiki but are actually just empty content pulled in from multiple sources.


Man, where the hell did those come from? All of a sudden in the past few months they are all over my DDG search results.




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