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But couldn't someone copy out the mere listing of ingredients anyway?

I had heard it's more about SEO. Put some filler on the page to make the article looking enough for the search engine to think it's intereting.

> intereting

Typo, “interesting”; “interneting” also works.

I mean we're talking about people who decided their life's work would be to run a recipe website so we already can't expect that much.

You don't know how many side projects they have. I had a recipe website at one time along with 50 other things.