<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Sounds like they're morphing into another slophole like the sites being paid for "SEO juice", covered by Stephanie Sterling of The Jimquisition many years ago.<br />IIRC it basically meant/means to have slop "articles" on your site with some legit inline links for cover and then some other inline links to gambling garbage sites to boost those sites' SEO through manipulating search crawlers.<br />Though I'm not sure that method would even work anymore in the age of so-called "AI"-crawlers.</p>