The stories also serve the purpose of providing copyright. A recipe alone doesn't have copyright, but the story mixed throughout the recipe does have copyright.
Nah, the stories are there so you have to scroll 6000 pages to finally find the actual recipe. Why do they want you to scroll? Because every 5th word is an advertisement. More scrolling, more ads, more revenue.
All of these recipe sites (that I've seen) will drop the ingredients + directions on the bottom of the page.
No, it's so the pages follow thr Google blessed "ideal" page format. X number of words, 2-3 pictures, iser stays on page for longer than Y time.
Last one is the killer, a site that quickly gives you the info you are looking (or quickly shows you it doesn't have the info) for is punished by google search ranking.
I thought it was so the site has longer to mine monero using your CPU while you scroll?
Ever notice how incredibly slow any device gets when looking at recipes?
It's possible that the scrolling is giving the remote server time to use your CPU/GPU to mine some space cash, but it's also possible that attaching listeners to events that happen many times per second (such as scrolling, mouse movement) is common, especially if 3rd party ads are allowed to interact with the page, making it nearly impossible to know what those ads' scripts are doing.
