[walshemj]

And ban the use of PDF's - which is another way this could be avoided.

Oh and mandate clean links no funky javascipt links that search crawlers don't follow.

[lmkg]

Per the main project link, the pricing information required to be posted in JSON format with specific schema and file names.

[breischl]

JSON is allowed, but not required. They just required open, non-proprietary, formats. They specifically gave YAML and XML as other examples.

[bawolff]

Search engines can index pdfs.

[walshemj]

Yeh but they don't work as well and wont be as discoverable

[dvfjsdhgfv]

Provided the content is not encrypted.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I stand corrected: encrypted PDFs are indexed unless a password is set. However, in the past they were unable to do so[0]: "Generally we can index textual content (written in any language) from PDF files that use various kinds of character encodings, provided they're not password protected or encrypted."

[0] https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pdfs-in-go...

[bawolff]

I think the assumption is that encrypted pdfs would not be used here because users still have to view these documents

[dvfjsdhgfv]

No, the PDF standard explicitly allows encryption without the need to set up user password; in this case, the owner password is set. The only change for the user is that the word "Secured" usually appears next to the filename in the reader.