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		onion2k on March 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 50% of new NPM packages are spam It would be annoying if NPM were not indexed at all More or less annoying than NPM being used for hosting spam?

overthrow on March 30, 2023 [–]

That seems like a false choice. Deindexing is not the only way to solve spam. Plenty of other websites have found solutions and didn't have to pull themselves from Google.

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