to take a less extreme example, if you search for “shop-lifting techniques” on google, or any other modern content provider, you’ll - exclusively - find moral anodised stuff about catching criminals. if you go on old internet portals or archives, you’ll find edgy indie websites telling you naughty secrets

>you’ll - exclusively - find moral anodised stuff about catching criminals

I can confirm this is false. First page Google already showed naughty secrets.

Magic of the algorithm, the poster you're replying to may be in a different legal regime which takes that sort of thing more seriously than your own.

The black-box nature of search becomes less and less satisfying as time passes.

Meanwhile, Reddit has r/shoplifting.

For all that it's been cleaned up and nerfed, it's still a delightful time capsule of an earlier Internet.

They used to, its now banned. Along with all of the other related edgy subreddits.