The long prose in recipes is to keep other websites from easily scraping them and posting them (this stealing the ad revenue). Since you can't copyright a recipe, the text makes it both harder to scrape by web crawlers and easier to use those who copy.
November 27, 2024 at 8:06 PM
The long prose in recipes is to keep other websites from easily scraping them and posting them (this stealing the ad revenue). Since you can't copyright a recipe, the text makes it both harder to scrape by web crawlers and easier to use those who copy.