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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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So i have been using DuckDuckGo a bit more, and really disappointed to see they have basically banned rationalwiki.
RationalWiki no longer has technical staff, just a bit of help from @davidgerard@circumstances.run. To deal with bot swarms, possibly launched by Emil Kirkegaard's gang of racists with sensitive egos, they blocked some of the scrapers which Bing and Google rely on. Since 2022 DuckDuckGo is a front-end for Bing.
That's bizarre. Why?
Because after RW got fucking hammered to shit by AI bots, I put an anti-bot javascript trick that fools 100% of bots, but also crawlers. This is a compromise so the site is fucking usable by humans.
I have no idea, but CInnasVerses post might be a hint. I just found it annoying they simply don't list it at all. (another odd thing, I found a google 'this is what wikipedia says about this person' short description of the link. But the wikipedia page of the person was deleted in 2018. Everything is falling apart.
Wikipedia is mirrored all over the place for good purposes and for ill. Old articles are probably floating around out there, and who knows if the slop machine can distinguish what Wikipedia itself says from other pages that have "from Wikipedia" stamped on them?
They linked to the empty page oddly enough.