With the new metha on hreflangs, I remembered how we fought clones back in 2020.

At that point, I, and a couple of the members chat room managed to get rid of clones just by hreflangs, but it did not become a mass solution to the problem.

Later we came to the conclusion that the scheme of ungluing various filters with hreflangs is not reliably working, and some of the guesses are wrong. And now I see how some modification of such a scheme has restored the output after the last apa.

What I'm getting at: These events are a good example of why newcomers to gambling can still «find» something new (or rethink the well-forgotten old), and make money at it. Because as time goes on for a long time, you develop a kind of «backwardsness». When you have already tried one algorithm of actions 100 times and decided that it definitely does not work - the return to this algorithm will be far from quick, and sometimes even extremely unlikely.

This is also the reason why you should not listen to experts in our niche, because if one of my employees asked me «will this scheme work» - I would confidently answer «no, we have done tests, it was ineffective». But this situation is an example of why I would still give an interested employee the resource to re-test a hypothesis that is old to me, but new to him.