They are.
It’s proliferating.
That’s why I am bitching.
I’ll be here long after they are gone, but they are an annoying pest polluting search results and ticking off possible new players when they can’t fnd answers to their questions but these crappy sites instead. They are a pimple on the axx on the industry, and quickly growing into a big boil.
They don’t bother sites like mine, I am way too established.
They kill newer sites, keep them from rising because they have a solid barrier in the serps.
They also hurt middle aged sites by using varous ways to get them in trouble with google.
But most importantly, they pixx off potential players. They don’t care, they count on numbers. If each site pixxes off 50 players and one clicks, and they have 10,000 sites, they are happy.
The industry, all of us, loses 50 potential players to give those guys one click.
That’s what’s wrong with this, apart from the complete absence of ethics.